Qasar Younis was born on a farm in Pakistan and emigrated to the United States in 1988, growing up in the Detroit area. He earned an engineering degree from Kettering University and later completed his MBA at Harvard Business School. Younis began his career as an engineer at General Motors and then Bosch in Japan, before founding Cameesa.com.
In 2010, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to establish his second startup, TalkBin, a platform enabling customers to send messages to businesses.