#59 - Haseeb Qureshi

Haseeb Qureshi is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly, a crypto investment firm with roughly $4 billion under management. Dragonfly recently closed its fourth venture fund at $650 million. Prior to Dragonfly, Haseeb was a General Partner at MetaStable Capital, the crypto fund co-founded by Naval Ravikant and later acquired by Dragonfly. Before venture, he was a software engineer at Airbnb and Earn.com, and before that a top-10 globally ranked professional poker player. We spoke about digital dollars, nationalized banks, bubbles and speculation, Iran and BlackRock, jaywalking, and beanie babies. 0:00 – Intro 1:23 – What Happened to Crypto? 3:18 – Stablecoins and Escape Velocity 7:04 – Bitcoin, Gold, and the Generational Trade 10:34 – War and Stores of Value 15:06 – Retail, Nvidia, and Capital Flight 18:23 – Stablecoins 101 20:00 – Eurodollars, Venmo, and AI Agents 23:00 – Dollarization and the Black Market 25:28 – Banks, Airwaves, and the Balance of Power 31:20 – Too Many Currencies 36:11 – Institutions and Cypherpunks 40:08 – Iran and BlackRock 41:00 – Speculation and Bubbles 43:12 – Prediction Markets and the Overton Window 51:04 – Skin in the Game and the Rational Voter 54:06 – Staying in Crypto 57:13 – When Crypto VC Ends 58:57 – What Would Change Haseeb’s Mind on Crypto 1:03:00 – What Should More People Be Thinking About? 🎙️More Episodes🎙️ YouTube: https://bit.ly/3QDLQFt Apple: https://apple.co/478Be6M Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sfiFiE 📲Socials📲X: https://x.com/laboss Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexlabossiere/