Ishan Haque

Everything Ishan Haque said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MY FIRST MILLION Disclosure

Haque put his entire net worth into a leveraged Bitcoin long

“I grabbed all the money I had. It was a couple of thousand dollars and I, well, I didn't just buy Bitcoin. I was like, the degenerate in me, I was like, okay, let me try and maximize this opportunity. So I went on, people know BitMEX. I went leverage long on B…”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 17:19 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Disclosure

Haque invested his $100K net worth into delisted Animoca Brands shares

“I put everything I had is about a hundred K that I just like, ah, this should work at it.”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 28:51 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported

Haque: Animoca Brands is planning an IPO

“Otherwise you know, they have plans to list into an IPO.”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 33:26 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Not checkable as stated

Haque: Animoca Brands could reach a $100B–$300B valuation within 20 years

“I still see a pathway where, like, in the next 20, 20, 30 years, whatever, this is, like, A 102 103 hundred billion dollar company or whatever. And it's like, I have, I've got a pretty decent, you know, stake in that.”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 35:21 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted

Crypto casino Stake generated $1 billion in annual net profit

“Stakers, you know, they just did a billion dollars in net profit in a, you know, a single year.”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 43:54 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2028

Haque: Next crypto cycle will see 1-3 casino tokens in top 20

“We all agree that in this like next cycle, whenever it is, could be five years down the line, who knows, but in the next cycle for crypto we believe that there will be one, two or three casinos in the top 20 of all the coins, and that's billions of dollars of …”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 49:08 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Not checkable as stated

Haque: Shuffle pacing toward $500M monthly volume and millions in profit

“We're probably going to do a half a billion in volume like this month. And you know, this is generating a few million in revenue a month. And hopefully this month will be a few million in profit a month.”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 52:24 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Insight

Haque: Founders build crypto casinos for cash distribution, not for acquisitions

“We all went into it knowing that no one's going to buy a crypto casino. You build it to make a lot of money and then, you know, strip the money out and pay it out to all the holders of the business.”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 52:48 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Not checkable as stated

IShowSpeed's team made $1M claiming viral re-uploads and clip compilations

“I have a friend that I work with who manages speeds. I, you know, speed the kit. He manages his IP. I don't know what to call it. Like whenever there's a video of speed go viral on YouTube or TikTok, whatever, they will claim it. And then they make revenue off…”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 1:25:54 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Not checkable as stated

Multiple unreported crypto casino platforms generate $1 billion in revenue

“There's, I could, you know, there's a few other competitors that are also doing a billion dollars and it's just not really reported on, right?”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 44:48 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Insight

Live streamers and active Discord hosts convert better than passive influencers

“So we found out like the affiliates or the influences that are really like they have a discord channel or they, yeah, they have a, you know, they're constantly live streaming. Those people make the most money.”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 57:09 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported

Haque: Animoca Brands reached a peak valuation of $6B in its latest round

“At the peak they raised the latest round was six billion.”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 32:18 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Disclosure

Haque made millions trading metaverse tokens after Facebook's Meta rebrand

“Well, aside from Anamaka, I had a bunch of other token investments, especially when Facebook renamed to Meta. Remember, I was buying up all the MetaVest coins, Decentraland, Axie, Sandbox, and so I experienced, you know, making millions of dollars, like, liqui…”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 36:54 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported

Stake's founders started by building a casino inside video game RuneScape

“I know for the guys that did stake, they were Runescape kids. They built a casino in Runescape first, and then they did their own thing.”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 1:06:52 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Disclosure

Shuffle pays a niche iGaming CRM $10k monthly over using Salesforce

“So right now, like we're making a decision and we're going to go with some Other smaller couple. We're not going with Salesforce. We're going with this other one. They're going to get out, you know, 10 grand a month or whatever. Because they're specifically fo…”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 1:12:47 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

MY FIRST MILLION Disclosure

Haque: Shuffle achieved 10x growth in Japan by hiring bilingual students

“So we hired uni kids that are, that speak native, like, fluent English, so we can communicate with them, but also they're fluent, you know, in Japanese, and doing that, like, you know, our growth has been, like, TEDx, or just, like, they know the market in ter…”

Ishan Haque Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 1:18:09 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

The other half of the tape: Ishan Haque's own voice is left out of every number here. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Ishan Haque, by other people (1)

MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported

Puri: 'My First Million' was originally launched with Ishan Haque

“One thing that people don't know is this podcast was started actually not with me and Sam, me and you. I hit you up on Twitter DMs. And I saw that you were doing a, you were a podcast editor for somebody else I knew I think Corey or Angel List or something lik…”

Shaan Puri Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 2:57 Wait, My Intern Became a 21-Year-Old Millionaire?? (#510)

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ishan's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER	CEO & Co-founder, Origami	1	16	75% 3/4	full record on My First Million →