About Jamil Hasan

Jamil Hasan - Author, Interviewer, Entrepreneur

Jamil Hasan is an author, podcaster, entrepreneur, and longtime voice at the intersection of technology and humanity. He is the founder of Crypto Hipster Publications and host of the Crypto Hipster Podcast, where hundreds of conversations with founders, builders, and thinkers from around the world have shaped an increasingly simple question: How do we make progress without losing what makes us human?

A prolific author of more than 400 books, Jamil writes across technology, leadership, governance, culture, relationships, and personal experience. His work is connected by a central idea he calls Rediscovering Humanity—an exploration of trust, resilience, purpose, connection, and human agency in a world being transformed by technology.

His work today spans writing, podcasting, speaking, and the development of practical frameworks designed to turn those ideas into action.

But none of this started with a book, a podcast, or Bitcoin. It started a decade earlier, with Tony Robbins.

Thinking Beyond Corporate America

In 2016, I attended Tony Robbins’ Unleash the Power Within. At the time, I was still firmly rooted in corporate America, but the experience sparked something that had been quietly building in me: the desire to do something different. I didn’t know what that meant yet. I didn’t have a business plan, a new career mapped out, or any idea where the next decade would take me. I simply began to imagine a life beyond the corporate path I had followed for years. Looking back, this was one of the first moments when I gave myself permission to ask a different question—not what should I do next in my career?, but what else could I do with my life?

2017–2022 — Building Minerva Data Advisors

In 2017, I left corporate America and launched Minerva Data Advisors, my first company. It began as a data business, and I initially partnered with IBM to explore using Watson to deliver artificial intelligence solutions. Then crypto arrived, and I saw another emerging technology with the potential to reshape industries. Minerva pivoted into ICO advisory work and eventually into digital asset investments. What began as my first experiment outside corporate America became my entry into entrepreneurship, blockchain and investing. The journey was anything but linear, and it ultimately ended when the Celsius collapse wiped out a significant part of what I had built. But Minerva changed the trajectory of my life: I had stopped wondering whether I could leave corporate America. I had actually done it.

2022 — Into the Metaverse

The metaverse arrived in 2022, and for a while, things got wonderfully strange. I was already deep in crypto and emerging technology, and suddenly the boundaries between physical and digital identity were being challenged in entirely new ways. I began experimenting with virtual worlds and even spoke at conferences in forms that looked nothing like the person sitting behind the computer. Avatars, digital identities and immersive environments offered a glimpse of how radically technology might change the way we communicate and experience one another. Some of the hype would eventually fade, but the experimentation stayed with me. It reinforced something that continues to shape my work today: new technology is most interesting not because of the technology itself, but because of what it reveals about people.

2023 — An Unexpected Detour

In 2023, life took a turn I never saw coming. I was diagnosed with a desmoid tumor and began chemotherapy treatments. Suddenly, the questions in front of me had very little to do with business, technology or what I was going to build next. Treatment became part of my routine, and uncertainty became something I had to learn to live with. The experience changed my perspective on time, priorities and what actually matters. This photo was taken during that summer, in the middle of treatment. I was bald from chemotherapy, but I was still moving forward. Cancer would become another chapter in my story, but I was determined that it would never become the story itself.

July 2024 — Taking the Stage

In July 2024, I took the stage at the Litecoin Summit to host a panel exploring Litecoin mining and the use of specialized chips. By then, I had spent years immersed in crypto as an investor, advisor and podcaster, but moderating a live discussion brought those experiences together in a different way. My job wasn’t to have all the answers. It was to ask the right questions, draw out the expertise of the people on stage, and make a highly technical subject accessible to the audience. It was another evolution in my journey—from learning about emerging technologies, to interviewing the people building them, to helping lead the conversations around where they were going.

2024–2025 — Crypto Hipster Gets Wild

In 2024 and 2025, the Crypto Hipster Podcast took off. During those two years alone, I interviewed nearly 300 of the 600+ guests who have appeared on the show, talking with founders, builders and thinkers from across a rapidly evolving industry. The pace was relentless, but so was the learning. Every conversation gave me another perspective on what people were building, what was working, what wasn’t, and where technology might be taking us next. The podcast grew, my network expanded, and my understanding of the industry deepened enormously. More importantly, hundreds of conversations taught me to listen differently. I began noticing that beneath all the technology, markets and innovation, the most interesting stories were almost always about the people building them.

Summer 2026 — Getting Back on the Bike

By the summer of 2026, life looked very different. I was writing more than ever, the podcast had grown far beyond what I originally imagined, and my work was increasingly focused on the intersection of technology and humanity. But some of the most meaningful progress had nothing to do with books, podcasts or business. It was about getting healthier, spending time with the people I love, and getting back to doing ordinary things I had once taken for granted—like riding a bike. After the uncertainty of the previous few years, I had developed a different relationship with ambition. I still wanted to build, create and explore new ideas, but not at the expense of actually living. Sometimes moving forward really is as simple as getting back on the bike.

Today — And the Story Continues

Today, I write, interview, speak, and continue exploring the ideas that have followed me through every chapter of this journey. My work increasingly centers on what I call Rediscovering Humanity—understanding what technology, disruption, loss, resilience, and change can teach us about ourselves. I’m still fascinated by what comes next, but I’m even more interested in the people who will live through it. After all the pivots, experiments, setbacks, conversations, and unexpected turns, I’ve learned not to expect a straight road. I just intend to keep moving forward—and keep telling the stories I find along the way.