
Qasar Younis
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Qasar Younis
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"The best books to read are the old books." - @qasar "Over 25-50 years, time has filtered all the noise, so you get a lot of signal." "In your life, how many books are you going to read?" "Pick the really good ones—because what you read does impact your view of the world."




Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis: "Our vision of the future is every moving machine will be intelligent." "[Self-driving is] one part of that intelligence. It’s not the whole thing." "Once you have a beefy central compute, you can do a lot more things with it." "Just think about this dumb car or this dumb tank becoming more like your phone." @qasar on Uncapped with @jaltma

Applied Intuition’s cofounders are building software that can drive everything from planes to tanks to automobiles. But to expand beyond its $800 million business selling tech for cars, they will have to take on Tesla, Google, Nvidia and a host of other startups jostling for pole position in the autonomy race. Read the full story: forbes.com/sites/iainmart… 📸: Cody Pickens for Forbes


Demo Day 2026! Our New Grad Class of 2026 flew into HQ for their first real look at Applied. Here's what went down: 🤖Physical AI demos across cars, trucks, mining, construction, agriculture, and defense 🔥Fireside chat with co-founder & CEO @qasar 🏗️ Applied Challenge: Built and crash-tested cardboard cars ⚡Lightning tech talks, and 💬panels with previous grads 🍽️ Team lunches with their new managers and teammates Welcome to the team, Class of 2026. Let's build. 🛠️


Applied Intuition CEO Qasar Younis on choosing between being a founder and a VC: “[Being a VC is] a cerebral job. And fundamentally what a VC does is you buy and sell stock.” “As a founder, you have to love product and you have to love team building.” “You have to figure out if you’re trying to make this decision, 'should I be a VC or should I be a founder?' Which one of those things resonates with you more?” @AppliedInt CEO @qasar at @SlushHQ
