"Depending on how you think about it, there's half a dozen or more approaches to the hardware. And I became excited that within the hardware approach, the neutral atom approach was high potential. So we backed [Thompson's] company called Logiqal. What happens if you're right? I'm a venture investor, and we believe in convexity-taking risks on things that most likely won't work, but if they do work could be 500x in value."
"It's a real earth-moving innovation if there's a chance that quantum computers find the path toward success. You unlock these thinking engines, these computational engines that can run the future of material sciences, the future of pharmaceutical innovation, the future of logistics, the future of financial markets in ways that we've never seen before. You can see a future where you could create pharmaceutical advancements that could elongate life 20 to 30 years."
Multiple hardware approaches to quantum computing exist, and the neutral-atom hardware approach shows high potential. Investors have backed companies such as Logiqal based on that potential. Venture investors pursue convexity-taking risks on initiatives that are unlikely to work but could deliver outsized returns, sometimes on the order of 500x. Quantum computing could unlock powerful computational engines capable of accelerating material science, pharmaceutical innovation, logistics, and financial-market modeling. Potential outcomes include significant extensions of human lifespan through pharmaceutical advancements and novel materials and products. Quantum today resembles the AI landscape of 2015, with growing practical applications and ongoing evaluation of technological moats.
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