Rafe Furst

Rafe Furst is an American entrepreneur, writer and world champion poker player. He is known for winning the 2006 World Series of Poker Championship Bracelet in Pot Limit Hold'em, earning over 350,000 dollars. He has written and spoken about the transformation of early-stage finance and cryptocurrency and has presented at conferences including TED, and his ideas about technology, cancer research and investing have been featured in WIRED, the New York Times Magazine and the Freakonomics blog. He began his career in the 1990s as an artificial intelligence researcher at the Kestrel Institute, left academia to co-found his first company, Pick'em Sports, in 1996, which was sold to a public company in 1999, and has served on the boards of the Prevent Cancer Foundation and the Conrad Foundation and on the Board of Advisors of the Decision Education Foundation and Unreasonable Institute.