Haseeb Qureshi
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Actually, when I left Airbnb, so I was working at Airbnb as a software engineer, I remember writing down on a piece of paper what, I knew that I wanted to build a company.
That was like my, just the thing in my mind is that I should- Or what company?
Yeah, what company?
What should I build in?
And there were two fields that I thought about going into.
The first one was crypto and the second one was AI.
Now, this was in 20- This was- This was 2016.
It was 2016.
Wow.
Now, at the time, AI was not like what it is today, right?
AI was basically you need a machine learning PhD in order to be a real meaningful contributor at the frontier of AI.
And so what I told myself is like, look, if I go into AI today, I'm playing from behind.
The people who are really contributing in this industry are machine learning PhDs who have been doing this for a long, long time.
And I'll always be from behind because I have this weird non-conventional background.
But if I go into crypto, in crypto, nobody knows anything.
There are no crypto PhDs.
Everybody just figured this out 10 minutes ago.
It's a brand new industry.
No rules.
Everybody is learning at the same time.