Qasar Younis (
@qasar) shared his biggest advice on commercializing hard technology: put constraints on the commercial side.
Pick a box and only do the things that fit in it.
Founders tend to skip this because capital is easy to access and the technical problem already feels like enough of a constraint. His reminder: a pitch can work for VCs, and you still have to run a sustainable business.
He runs Applied Intuition, valued at $15B and backed by
@a16z,
@generalcatalyst,
@Lux_Capital and
@kleinerperkins, and was YC's COO while
@sama was president.
Via
@latentspacepod. Full breakdown of our interview with him in the reply.