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Applied Intuition is a bit of an “if you know you know” company. For years, they didn’t talk about what they did publicly. Co-founder and CEO Qasar Younis didn’t even have a Twitter.
Malhar Patel started back when the company was just called “NewCo” on LinkedIn, joining a crew of engineers working out of a rented space above a bar in Sunnyvale. They had a no-shoes policy — only because their office was a literal house, so it felt odd to keep them on.
Today, Applied Intuition is a $15B company, and as they’ve grown into a leader in physical AI, they’ve started to talk about themselves a bit more (Younis even set up an X recently).
For our second installment of “Firsthand,” our as-told-by series spotlighting the early employees at some of the most distinctive companies in tech, Patel brings us inside the halls of Applied’s Sunnyvale campus, where they’re in-office five days a week, and it's not unusual to find folks staying late for a call at 11PM with customers in Tokyo. He’s now Deputy CTO, and he’s worked across just about every function at the company throughout all its phases of scale.
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