Qasar Younis

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. [1]

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.[2]

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 [3] and in 2015 he was promoted to COO.[4]

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.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rao, Leena (2015-08-26). "Y Combinator's New COO". Fortune. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
  2. ↑ Kincaid, Jason. "Google Acquires TalkBin, A Feedback Platform For Businesses That's Only Five Months Old". TechCrunch. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  3. ↑ Yeung, Ken. "Y Combinator names partner Qasar Younis as its first COO". VentureBeat. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Altman, Sam. "A new role for Qasar". Y-Combinator Blog. Y-Combinator. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Inside Silicon Valley's most grueling ritual: Raising cash". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-08-31.

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