It&#x27;s briefly mentioned in the article but I don&#x27;t think ya&#x27;ll realize Haseeb is a (in)famous ex-poker player. He made high quality training videos, and did very, very well in poker. He was also at one time Daniel Cates&#x27;s (junglemans) roommate (and life coach? lol) who is probably one of the strongest poker players in the world.<p>All these other things were for sure the real factors into the negotiation&#x2F;hiring. The bootcamp meant almost nothing (besides the 6m+ experience showing he could train people to code like he&#x27;s proven he could train people in poker).