Qasar Younis is the co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, a $15 billion physical AI company, and former COO of Y Combinator. We talk about why he built a horizontal platform while the self-driving industry went vertical, how radical pragmatism shapes every decision at Applied, and why product-market fit has to be earned every day.
Qasar also shares what has driven him from the beginning: the desire to control his own destiny.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:16 When Everyone Went Vertical, I Went Horizontal
08:04 The Engineering Mindset
10:27 Hard-Won Lessons From Thousands of Startups
13:25 Read deeply, think clearly, and aim higher
Built is an interview series where founders of category-defining companies share their most expensive lessons.
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