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After 16 years and 10 months -- I'm finally writing my first...X? Also, will start writing more regularly.
My first post is, ironically, on why I'm posting. qy.co/new
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Qasar Younis
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Qasar Younis
@qasar
1 person in 8 billion.
applied.co Katılım Mart 2009
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@jasonyangsays In the words of Prince Paul: more than you know! But what I've learned working on Applied stuff is that to do something truly exceptional you realize pretty quickly the idea is 1% of path
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@qasar I wonder how many "If I started a company in this space..." scenarios run through your mind on a daily basis
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Qasar Younis retweetledi
I'm joining @OpenAI to bring agents to everyone. @OpenClaw is becoming a foundation: open, independent, and just getting started.🦞
steipete.me/posts/2026/ope…
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When we look back 25 years from now, one of the larger impacts of AI will be injecting intelligence into machines that move us & things
a16z@a16z
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
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Forbes@Forbes
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
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Qasar Younis retweetledi
Career advice from Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase — yes, please.
Be the person in the room people want to listen to👂.
Get more advice from his conversation with @qasar at Applied Intuition ➡️ appliedintuition.com/blog/jamie-dim…
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To echo Jamie: the biggest threats for the company, the country, and even ourselves is from within, rather than external factors like competitors.
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Don't underestimate the ability to easily communicate complex topics
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Jamie Dimon visited us and gave a talk that could be roughly summarized as "The Enemy Within".
A simply incredible conversation.
More in thread...
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I tried not to visibly wince when a new hire said "Graduating HS when the chatGPT moment was happening was fun"
I'm not scared of AI as much as I am scared of time
Applied Intuition@AppliedInt
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. 🛠️
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@alighodsi I have been informed that this isn't @alighodsi but it is indeed, me. Apologies.
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Great points @alighodsi!
a16z@a16z
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
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Qasar Younis (@qasar) built @AppliedInt into a $15B company. Here are a few the contrarian moves he’s made to get there:
1. Find a co-founder before you pick a problem to solve. “I really believe finding a co-founder has to come first. If you have an idea then find a co-founder, they’re really just a glorified employee. They weren’t there for the birthing of the idea, so the idea probably isn’t as tied to their skills,” he says.
2. Treat compensation like stock. Applied Intuition has been profitable since its early days. Qasar attributes this to a disciplined comp strategy: Keep salaries and equities low to start, and increase as the value of the company goes up. “The vast majority of our employees are now at the 99th percentile of compensation, but not because of their first offer. They’re there because the stock price grew. That’s the right way to do it.”
3. Hard work compounds. Qasar has worked seven days a week for as long as he can remember. He says there’s real leverage in working incrementally more each week: “Just work 10 extra hours per week, and that compounds in significant ways. On an annual basis, that becomes three extra months.”
Read here for a deep dive on Applied Intuition’s path to product-market fit: review.firstround.com/applied-intuit…
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Solid snapshot of a16z. Vivat Imperium! :)
Genuinely curious who people would put alongside @pmarca and @bhorowitz in terms of shaping modern venture over the past 15 years. A huge amount of today’s playbook runs through them
Packy McCormick@packyM
a16z: The Power Brokers There is this story about Marc Andreessen that I think perfectly captures a16z. in 2015, when New Yorker writer Tad Friend sat down to breakfast with Marc Andreessen while writing Tomorrow’s Advance Man. Friend had just heard from a rival VC who wanted to get a word in: that a16z’s funds were so large, and ownership percentages so small1, that to get 5-10x aggregate returns across its first four funds, they’d need their aggregate portfolio to be worth $240-480 billion. “When I started to check the math with Andreessen,” Friend writes, “He made a jerking-off motion and said ‘Blah-blah-blah. We have all the models—we’re elephant hunting, going after big game!’” The aggregate portfolio did not end up being worth $240-480 billion. a16z Funds 1-4 had a total enterprise value of $853 billion at distribution or latest post-money valuation. Since distribution, Facebook alone has added $1.5 trillion in market cap. Some form of this pattern keeps playing out: a16z makes a crazy bet on the future. Those in the know say it’s stupid. Wait some years. Turns out it’s not stupid! Which is why, as a16z announces $15 billion in fresh funds, it is probably a mistake to dismiss them as greedy or stupid. It's probably worth understanding just exactly what IT'S TRYING TO BUILD. That's what I do in today's not boring deep dive: a16z: The Power Brokers
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We’re in the golden age of software development
Boris Cherny@bcherny
I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently. So, here goes.
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@SaleemSKhatri that was his reaction when I said "do you know the impact AI is going to make on your day to day life?"
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New year and some new photos!
Yes, I know this isn't instagram. Just let me be.
qy.co/26
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