Qasar Younis

20 statements across 4 episodes · 15 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Qasar Younis · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2028
Younis: Fully autonomous cars will be available at dealerships by 2028
“And I think when the CT-Six launches with Super Cruise or the Tesla Autopilot, and then maybe 10 years from now we'll wake up and you have that option to go to the dealership and buy a car that does everything we think autonomy does.”
Qasar Younis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:50 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Qasar Younis: Autonomous vehicles will cause a bloodbath among Tier 1 suppliers
“I think the real bloodbath in this ecosystem is not going to be at the manufacturer's level because consumers have some affiliation to, like, a Tesla vehicle or, like, a Mercedes-Benz, etc. It happens at the tier ones, but where there's that destruction, there…”
Qasar Younis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:39 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Qasar Younis: 100 Tier 1 automotive suppliers generate over $1B annually
“There's a hundred tier one suppliers right now that make over a billion in revenue a year.”
Qasar Younis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:28 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Younis: Tele-ops will serve commercial fleets over passenger cars
“I think tele-ops is going to be a critical part of that software infrastructure. I think less in the traditional passenger space. I think those edge cases relatively are less than if you're doing, like, automated construction equipment.”
Qasar Younis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:47 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
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Younis: Tele-ops startups will evolve into fleet management companies
“Ultimately, I think those companies will become fleet management companies, but yeah, I think it's gonna happen without a doubt.”
Qasar Younis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:14 a16z Podcast | Self-Driving Cars — Where Are We, Really?
Feb 26, 2019 positive
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Younis: No complex physical systems are developed without software simulation
“There are no complex systems that are being developed without simulation aircraft military systems, automotive internal combustion engines, microprocessors, simulation is everywhere.”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 42:15 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Feb 26, 2019 neutral
Insight
Younis: Platform tipping points occur when breakout consumer apps emerge
“The iPhone moment in my mind is when you have you know, frankly, the 12 or 24 month period where Instagram, Snapchat, Uber, and WhatsApp are all some and they all are created in a roughly pretty tight time bound. That's the iPhone moment in my mind.”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 6:35 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Feb 26, 2019 bullish
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Younis: Everything that moves will eventually become autonomous
“The adage that anything that moves will one day be autonomous. We believe that very, very deeply.”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 8:28 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Feb 26, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Younis: Independent providers will outperform vertical integration in autonomous vehicles
“And so I think with autonomy, I think the arc here, you, you'll see all these individual modules will be run by individual players because there is this natural arc in capitalism, which says the independent providers can do cheaper, better, and faster than any…”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 47:15 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Feb 26, 2019 neutral
Insight
Younis: Autonomy's tipping point requires non-Silicon Valley user adoption
“So what the general public though will consider the autonomy moment is when you meet somebody who doesn't live in Silicon Valley, doesn't work in technology, and they've done, they've had an autonomous ride. Maybe it's on college campuses, maybe it's an airpor…”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 7:34 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Feb 26, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Younis: Bosch became relevant in Silicon Valley due to autonomous vehicles
“When I worked at Bosch before, Bosch was unknown just a few years ago, and it's finally now, because of autonomy, Bosch is like a relevant name.”
Qasar Younis Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 19:55 a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
Apr 14, 2025 positive
Insight
Yudis: Defense startups must have a D.C. presence and military veterans
“I think, though, it's hard to have a real business in, you know, let's say, not only the DoD, honestly, but also if you're selling to the government broadly, without really having a presence in D.C. With, you know, folks, you know, who come from the ecosystem,…”
Qasar Younis Apr 14, 2025 ▶ 31:13 Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Younis: Robotaxis will be routine in 200 major US cities by 2030
“It's 26 now. I mean, certainly by 30.”
Qasar Younis Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 41:07 Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
Jul 21, 2026 neutral
Insight
Younis: Passenger cars are bought with emotion, commercial trucks with calculators
“You buy a car with your heartstrings, you buy a truck with a calculator. Yeah. It's a calculator business.”
Qasar Younis Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 43:00 Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
Jul 21, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Younis: Physical AI development tools will evolve into integrated agentic platforms
“We think the same thing's gonna happen in the physical world.”
Qasar Younis Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 52:05 Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Younis: Fully autonomous energy farms are the future and will lower costs
“But I think massive energy farm that's completely autonomous, that's gonna be the future. And I think everyone, like, everyone reacts to things like that with, like, fear. And it's like, guys, that's amazing. That means energy costs go way down.”
Qasar Younis Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 1:13:40 Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2033
Younis: Self-driving features will become cheap or default by early 2030s
“If you had to ask me for what that number is, 28 SOP, 29, start of production, 29, 30, and then by the early thirties, it'll start becoming very cheap to free.”
Qasar Younis Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 37:53 Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
Jul 21, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Younis: Robotics hardware is already fast and accurate enough for chores
“When you decouple models from just the hardware can do it now. That used to be a constraint. So the hardware is very fast and accurate now, which was actually.”
Qasar Younis Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 1:10:54 Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Younis: Applied Intuition aims to deploy AI on one billion machines
“Our mission is to put intelligence on a billion machines, and we think that can have a profound impact on society.”
Qasar Younis Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 0:00 Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
Jul 21, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Younis: Physical AI companies could become larger than digital AI companies
“In this intelligence revolution, The companies that impact the physical world might actually be bigger than the companies that impact the digital world.”
Qasar Younis Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 0:26 Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
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