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Pakistani-origin COO of Y Combinator announces plans to 'move on'
Qasar Younis, partner and chief operating officer (COO) at Y Combinator, on Thursday announced his plans to leave the company to work on an independent project via a post on Facebook.
Y combinator, which has come to be known as the world's most powerful start-up incubator, was founded in 2005.
Younis joined the company in 2014 and was promoted to the position of COO a year later.
In the post announcing his plans to "move on", Younis wrote that the decision to leave Y Combinator was a difficult one and the "transition process has been planned over many months."