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The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis

8 Mar 2026 20 published claims 2 attributable people
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Qasar YounisLenny Rachitsky

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01 / prediction

It is not considered to be exploitative because you have no choice. And I think we'll look back in 25, 30 years, we're like, people were just tired, under the influence, extremely stressed, going through a traumatic life experience, and then they jump into a car like that.

“It is not considered to be exploitative because you have no choice. And I think we'll look back in 25, 30 years, we're like, people were just tired, under the influence, extremely stressed, going through a traumatic life experience, and then they jump into a car like that.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / prediction

" The jobs piece is really interesting. And a thread that has emerged on this podcast recently is that people are afraid AI will take their jobs, but in reality, AI is coming just in time to save us because populations are declining, people are aging, and we need something to help us there.

“" The jobs piece is really interesting. And a thread that has emerged on this podcast recently is that people are afraid AI will take their jobs, but in reality, AI is coming just in time to save us because populations are declining, people are aging, and we need something to help us there.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / belief

We still have people clean, but we also are, our employees also are aware of their surroundings. And I think there's a direct line between be quiet and alone and clean your desk and well-written software.

“We still have people clean, but we also are, our employees also are aware of their surroundings. And I think there's a direct line between be quiet and alone and clean your desk and well-written software.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / belief

Now, if we do it apples to apples, America just has to build great EVs. That means Tesla and everybody else combined and we don't care about profits, I think America would field some very good products and there would be wow products.

“Now, if we do it apples to apples, America just has to build great EVs. That means Tesla and everybody else combined and we don't care about profits, I think America would field some very good products and there would be wow products.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / belief

I think the real advice is to fight fear. And I feel that anxiety, especially when I go to Michigan and outside of people in the Silicon Valley bubble, it's like just try to learn a little bit about the technology that you're afraid of and you'll start seeing some of the edges.

“I think the real advice is to fight fear. And I feel that anxiety, especially when I go to Michigan and outside of people in the Silicon Valley bubble, it's like just try to learn a little bit about the technology that you're afraid of and you'll start seeing some of the edges.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

07 / belief

" Being a founder is its own muscle and you want to exercise that muscle. But I think a lot of founders, especially early in their founding career, put such an incredible pressure on themselves to make it great out of the gate that they actually miss the thing that you're getting in that first round, which is learning and building that muscle.

“" Being a founder is its own muscle and you want to exercise that muscle. But I think a lot of founders, especially early in their founding career, put such an incredible pressure on themselves to make it great out of the gate that they actually miss the thing that you're getting in that first round, which is learning and building that muscle.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / belief

What's really cool about you is you see the hardware side of this, and I think one of the biggest changes to our lives will probably be robots walking around doing things for us.

“What's really cool about you is you see the hardware side of this, and I think one of the biggest changes to our lives will probably be robots walking around doing things for us.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / belief

Your point about emotions was extremely interesting, and I want to make sure people don't take away the wrong takeaway here. So what I actually found really helpful, which I think is aligned with what you were suggesting is taking emotions out of it.

“Your point about emotions was extremely interesting, and I want to make sure people don't take away the wrong takeaway here. So what I actually found really helpful, which I think is aligned with what you were suggesting is taking emotions out of it.”
Speaker
Lenny Rachitsky
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / evaluation

We can't throw out the baby with the bathwater. And so I think I implore everybody who thinks about AI broadly and physical AI specifically to always recognize that your monkey brain is programmed because of hundreds of thousands of years of living out in the wild and being in the cave that when you hear the rustle in the bush, that is you think it's a snake because that's what our ancestors were programmed.

“We can't throw out the baby with the bathwater. And so I think I implore everybody who thinks about AI broadly and physical AI specifically to always recognize that your monkey brain is programmed because of hundreds of thousands of years of living out in the wild and being in the cave that when you hear the rustle in the bush, that is you think it's a snake because that's what our ancestors were programmed.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / evaluation

Or more often than not, when I think about companies that have been very successful is they have momentum going in a specific direction and that wall of sound overwhelms any new sound that's emerging which is, "Hey, the market's changing, the market's changing.

“Or more often than not, when I think about companies that have been very successful is they have momentum going in a specific direction and that wall of sound overwhelms any new sound that's emerging which is, "Hey, the market's changing, the market's changing.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

16 / prediction

I think in any technical shift, the emergence of WhatsApp, just as an example, there are people who are damaged by that, literally companies that go away, but also humans who are damaged by the advent of that technology.

“I think in any technical shift, the emergence of WhatsApp, just as an example, there are people who are damaged by that, literally companies that go away, but also humans who are damaged by the advent of that technology.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

17 / evaluation

The productivity unlock from just you looking at a machine, not like a sentient being, but almost like a physical agent of something you're trying to accomplish, unlocks things that I think are very hard to think about. So I love things like Moltbook and I love, let's say, OpenClaw revolution that's happening for the lack of a better word, but I think the big impact, that's still such a small part of society.

“The productivity unlock from just you looking at a machine, not like a sentient being, but almost like a physical agent of something you're trying to accomplish, unlocks things that I think are very hard to think about. So I love things like Moltbook and I love, let's say, OpenClaw revolution that's happening for the lack of a better word, but I think the big impact, that's still such a small part of society.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

18 / evaluation

We don't just believe in that philosophy. And I think we believe that what maybe a more tactical way of saying that is we take inputs of the environment, our customers, specifically, our employees, our competitors, of our investors, and of what's happening in society write large, and that impacts our strategy.

“We don't just believe in that philosophy. And I think we believe that what maybe a more tactical way of saying that is we take inputs of the environment, our customers, specifically, our employees, our competitors, of our investors, and of what's happening in society write large, and that impacts our strategy.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

19 / prediction

It took you 500 engineers a couple of years." This AI thing could be real and the things I'm reading on X about just vibe coding your way to replace billion dollar companies, that might be the case and the market immediately prices in that risk.

“It took you 500 engineers a couple of years." This AI thing could be real and the things I'm reading on X about just vibe coding your way to replace billion dollar companies, that might be the case and the market immediately prices in that risk.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

20 / prediction

That's in a very, very true way. And so I think a lot of, let's say, the negativity around AI comes from people who frankly speaking are living in a very, very good existence.

“That's in a very, very true way. And so I think a lot of, let's say, the negativity around AI comes from people who frankly speaking are living in a very, very good existence.”
Speaker
Qasar Younis
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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