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This can't be real lmfao

To be clear, I did not cheat anyone, nor was I ever accused of cheating anyone. I was accused of lying to hide my relationship with someone who cheated. Just to get the record straight. (Also, this all happened when I was 21, 15 years ago.) If I had cheated people, I would not be doing what I'm doing today. Also Grok:

So basically Dragonfly is being run by a guy who was caught in a cheating scandal???

Hey Haseeb, if you're going to try to rewrite history, I'll set the record straight - Bo and I co-founded Dragonfly 1+ year before we hired you to join us. The firm was not at 0, we led plenty of great deals. We both had solid prior track records as well. We led investments into many well-known crypto companies (and Bo dozens of Chinese unicorns) back when you were "playing" poker.

This can't be real lmfao

To set the story straight: I agreed to join Dragonfly within a year of it starting, while the first fund was half raised. I had recently left Meta Stable, one of the biggest crypto funds at the time. I was not "hired." I came in as the third Managing Partner, with the understanding that the fund was not yet off the ground and that I was going to have to help raise it. At the time, Dragonfly was a fund-of-funds with no brand in the US. It had never led a single deal. So when Bo and Alex invited me to join, I made clear: the only way I was willing to join was if we pivoted the strategy to pure play VC, doing direct investments, leading deals, and letting me build a technical team. This is totally different from a fund-of-funds strategy. Alex resisted this; he thought fund-of-funds was a good hedge, but Bo and I overrode him. Within less than a year, Alex was out. This was before our first fund was fully deployed. We're now on our fourth fund. I have led the team, raised every single fund since then, for 7+ years. That's why it's infuriating to have Alex crawl out and try to take credit for our success. At the time that I joined, we had ~$55M of AUM. We're now at $4B. So, no. You did not build Dragonfly. Me, Bo, Tom, and Rob did. But I understand Hack VC is trying to raise a new fund. Good luck with that—you might want to check out a blog post I wrote recently. I suspect you'll find it helpful.

Hey Haseeb, if you're going to try to rewrite history, I'll set the record straight - Bo and I co-founded Dragonfly 1+ year before we hired you to join us. The firm was not at 0, we led plenty of great deals. We both had solid prior track records as well. We led investments into many well-known crypto companies (and Bo dozens of Chinese unicorns) back when you were "playing" poker.