David Daneshgar Used Poker Winnings to Launch a Multimillion-Dollar Start-Up
PokerNews Life Outside Poker6 Maj 2025

David Daneshgar Used Poker Winnings to Launch a Multimillion-Dollar Start-Up

Life Outside Poker is a podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.

In the 27th episode, Connor talks with World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner and venture capitalist David Daneshgar, who used poker winnings to launch a successful start-up that raised tens of millions. The Californian with $2.5 million in Hendon Mob earnings talks about his companies BloomNation and Whippy AI, teaching a college poker class, quitting his finance job to play poker, and getting Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss to write his letter of recommendation to business school.

Daneshgar also spoke about getting cheated in private LA games, AI in poker, and why entrepreneurs should play in poker games.

This interview was filmed in March in the new Venetian Poker Studio at Venetian Las Vegas.

The Life Outside Poker podcast is available on major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and iHeartRadio. You can also watch the interview with David Daneshgar by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.

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Timestamps Time Topic 0:00 Intro 1:15 Memories at the Venetian 1:50 Growing up in LA 5:30 Teaching a poker class at UC Berkeley 10:38 Quitting finance job to play poker 14:34 2008 WSOP bracelet win 17:44 Jerry Buss letter of recommendation 22:29 Starting BloomNation w/ poker winnings 26:37 Whippy AI 30:09 AI and poker 33:04 Private LA games 33:47 Getting cheating in home game 34:49 Business and poker 37:21 Return to poker 38:36 Book recommendation 39:54 Advice for younger self 41:01 Favorite life lesson from poker

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