Applied Intuition, every mention

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• ▶ 0:07 Brett Berson For today's episode, I'm sitting down with Kesar Yunus, the founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 7:27 Brett Berson At some point in the future, when there's a, a, a book that's written about you and applied intuition, what do you think the, the big idea that somebody might take away or like the thing you would hope that they put it down and the… 10 times in the scene
• ▶ 9:17 Brett Berson So winding back the hands of time a little bit, in the mid-two thousands, you were at YC, you were COO and group partner there for a number of years, and then you obviously started Applied Intuition. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 12:26 Qasar Younis And my co-founder, Peter, he stayed at Google and he became one of the founding engineers at Android Automotive, which has a huge impact also on Applied Intuitions, uh, founding story.
• ▶ 16:24 Qasar Younis Somebody who's in the suburb of, you know, Tulsa who works, you know, as an accountant at a tool and dye shop, should I start applied intuition? 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 21:46 Brett Berson So going back to sort of the founding moment for Applied Intuition, you spent time seriously considering building a robo-taxi company before you got into YC, before you started, um, helping lead YC.
• ▶ 21:57 Brett Berson So what was the actual founding insight for Applied Intuition?
• ▶ 25:12 Qasar Younis And I think you talk to anybody who applied intuition who's worked here or was working here, they'll often refer to like, oh, the balance between Casper.
• ▶ 30:52 Qasar Younis And, you know, and no disrespect, because a lot of people work hard at Zoox, some of those folks work at Applied.
• ▶ 36:48 Qasar Younis Now people are not like, oh, should we work with Applied Intuition?
• ▶ 37:02 Brett Berson So how long after the company was started did you get your first big account? 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 38:30 Qasar Younis And, and we've, we, you know, from the early days of the company, as a founder, you kind of have to make a decision of, are you going to be a single product company or are you going to be a multi-product company? 4 times in the scene
• ▶ 39:16 Brett Berson Is there anything else you think you did uniquely that made you really successful as a multi-product company? 8 times in the scene
• ▶ 41:21 Brett Berson How old was the company when you launched your second product? 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 44:38 Brett Berson What about this market opportunity and the way that you've run the company has allowed it to not be massively cash consumptive? 6 times in the scene