Qasar Younis
13 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 1, 2025 by Qasar Younis · across every show →
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Aug 1, 2025
Younis: Applied Intuition chose early on to be a multi-product company
“We went from our first product being a planning simulator and then to being a perception simulator, and then to like a data, you know, logger, literally conversations. And we've, we, you know, from the early days of the company, as a founder, you kind of have …”
Aug 1, 2025 positive
Younis: Working 10 extra hours weekly yields months of extra work
“You just work 10 extra hours, that, you know, that compounds, per week, that compounds in significant ways. In an annual basis, it compounds with three extra months. And, you know, Brett versus Brett plus three months, even if you waste two-thirds of the three…”
Aug 1, 2025
Younis: Founders are defined by correctly interpreting feedback, not starting companies
“A founder is not made when you decide to start a company or even when you raise money, your founder is made when you get feedback and do you interpret it correctly about the product and the market or just about you, about everything.”
Aug 1, 2025 positive
Younis: Read books over 25 years old to avoid short-term noise
“The important thing is consuming high quality content, because if you consume low quality content, you kind of get low quality ideas. And so then the question is, how do you find high quality content? For me, it's like the older this stuff, the better, because…”
Aug 1, 2025 bullish
Aug 1, 2025 bearish
Younis: Robotaxis are bad business because expensive hardware replaces cheap human drivers
“We just didn't see a good business there. We like, it's just like, you're going to spend like long time. We estimated five years, which ended up being short to ultimately replace a driver who is really cheap. And it's like, that just doesn't make sense in term…”
Aug 1, 2025
Aug 1, 2025 positive
Younis: Domain expertise is a true advantage as startup ideas become commoditized
“Today it is because there's, again, the Valley is different today in 20, 25 than it is ever before, because now there's no idea. I mean, you can go to an individual YC demo day and you'll see the same company, you know, three, Companies doing the same idea. So…”
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Aug 1, 2025 neutral
Younis: YC gave feedback to rejected interviewees unless the issue was the founder
“At YC, we would write feedback letters for everyone who gets rejected, right? Literally emails is like, we didn't, this is the issue that we saw. So if you get an interview, I don't know if they still do it. You know, I've been gone eight, nine years at this p…”
Aug 1, 2025
Younis: Founders should target rapidly growing markets over crowded niches
“If you're a wannabe founder, you gotta go to a market where it's exploding in growth. You go to a market that's like dentist CRMs that already has seven players and they're already kind of, it doesn't matter that you can do it way better than them. Like the, i…”
Aug 1, 2025 positive
Aug 1, 2025 positive
Younis: Truly vetting a co-founder cannot be compressed into a few months
“I really believe the co-founder thing is, is, is first and foremost, and that there's really no way to, I think there's, It's very difficult to compress that into like a two month or one month thing. You need that over many years where you see this person evol…”