Shift conference 2015 fireside chat with qasar younis y combinator
Qasar Younis is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He was the co-founder CEO of Talkbin (acquired by Google), and is the current COO of Y Combinator. He is also a very close friend to Justin Kan.
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Office hours with kevin hale and qasar younis at startup school sv 2016
Early life and education
Younis was born on a farm in Pakistan, and emigrated to the United States in 1988. He grew up in the Detroit area. After graduating with an engineering degree from Kettering University, he went on to complete his MBA at Harvard Business School.
Career
Younis was an engineer at GM for 5 years and Bosch for 2 years before going to graduate school. His first job out of Harvard Business School was at Sears Holdings headquarters in Chicago, but he then moved to San Francisco to start his second startup TalkBin, a platform for customers to give feedback to small and medium-sized businesses. The company graduated from Y Combinator's 2011 class, and was acquired by Google that year.
Y Combinator
After the TalkBin acquisition, Younis continued advising other startups, particularly through Y-Combinator. In early 2013, he became a part-time partner at YC. In 2014 he joined Y Combinator full time and in 2015 he was promoted to COO.
In his time at Y Combinator, he has helped start or create some of the most important initiatives inside the accelerator including raising $700m Continuity Fund, starting the software team and creating Investor Day.