The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis
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You decided to join Twitter recently, put out your first tweet. Mark Andreessen quo tweeted it and said, This is the best.
AI CEO, nobody knows. Our best work is done alone and quietly. Every minute you're writing something for public consumption, you're not focusing your very limited time that you have on your customers and your product. You're building a lot of the future that we're gonna be living in. What does the next couple years look like? Us solving some of these impossible problems like cancer are directly gonna be related to this AI boom. Net suffering in humanity overall should
A thread that has emerged on this podcast is that yeah
Is coming just in time to save us. The real impact of AI in the next five to ten years really is gonna be in farming, mining, construction. These industries, they need autonomy. And it couldn't come soon enough. If you look at farmers, the average age of a farmer is in their late 50s. What does that mean in 10 years from now? There's a lot of anxiety about what AI is gonna do to the world. The core root of fear is misunderstanding. If you at home home are very anxious about AI, the best thing that you can do is spend time to understand and you will quickly see the limitations. Get to know it, then actively make the technology be used for good.
Today, my guest is Casser Eunice, co-founder and CEO of Applied Intuition. You've probably never heard of Castor or Applied Intuition. This is the most important under-the-radar AI company and CEO that I've ever come across. It's a $15 billion company that has been growing quietly over the last decade. What they do is they add AI to vehicles like cars, tractors, planes, submarines, mining rigs, and a lot more. More, 18 out of the top 20 automakers are customers, as well as the biggest global construction, mining, and trucking companies, also the Department of Defense. They're basically Waymo or Tesla, but without the hardware. Casser himself was born on a farm in Pakistan, grew up in Detroit, started his career as an engineer at GM and then at Bosch.
He then went on to start a couple companies before starting Applied Intuition. Love everything about this episode and I am so excited to bring it to you. Don't forget to check out Lenny'sproductfast.com for an incredible set of deals available exclusively to Lenny's newsletter subscribers. Let's get into it after a short word from our wonderful sponsors. This episode is brought to you by Omni. Many product teams today are in the process of debating how to ship AI analytics. The hard part is obvious. Having an LLM guest at SQL. In production is a huge mess and just a bad idea. Omni takes a different approach. They have a semantic layer built in so that when you embed their analytics, the AI actually knows your business definitions, not just your raw tables.
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