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Building a better world for humans through deep tech innovation. Founder & fmr CEO @rigetti

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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
5 years
Technology moves fast. April 1, 2010: quantum computers on Amazon Web Services is an April fools day joke. December 2, 2019: quantum computers are live and available on AWS, powered by @rigetti 🎉🎉
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
Six years ago today I started @rigetti . Best and most rewarding decision of my life (until I asked @susanthesquark to marry me :)
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
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I'm literally *shocked* at the insane shit coming out of some leading U.S. universities who are either explicitly victim-blaming and supporting violence and terrorism and Hamas, or strategically silent. WTF has happened to leadership at these places?
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Chad Rigetti
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@VivekGRamaswamy You are just so off base, and losing all support from people you need for a viable campaign.
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
3 years
Our Rigetti 80-qubit systems -- the world's first commercial multi-chip quantum computers -- now in private beta. Welcome to the world, Aspen-M!
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Chad Rigetti
1 year
1/ After spending the last decade building Rigetti Computing into a global quantum computing leader, I’m thrilled to kick off my next chapter as a venture investor. I’m thrilled to be joining Dutch quantum-focused fund QDNL Participations as a Venture Partner.
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
2 years
Congrats to our extraordinary Rigetti team for launching our first quantum computer in the UK👏🏼! And thanks to our partners at Oxford Instruments, University of Edinburgh, Standard Chartered, and Phasecraft🙏🏼
@rigetti
rigetti
2 years
Today we are thrilled to announce the launch of our first UK-based quantum computer. Our 32-qubit Aspen-series system will be available to our UK partners over the cloud through Rigetti QCS™.
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
Yesterday we acquired QxBranch, a leading quantum applications company. It’s the first acquisition in the quantum industry. I wrote up a few thoughts here
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
This is my favorite thing on the internet right now. It’s amazing when the success and momentum of a relatively tiny company triggers a behemoth to react. Go team @rigetti !
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
5 years
Google’s supremacy demo and Amazon jumping into quantum computing are the biggest stories, but progress in variational (aka hybrid quantum/classical) algorithms is quietly one of the most important themes of the year in quantum.
@JacobBiamonte
Jacob Biamonte
5 years
In 2019 I proved that the variational model of quantum computation is universal. 100% different than Lloyd's QAOA "reachability" result. New tricks awaiting applications and a general discussion RE practical limitations without error correction await.
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
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Congratulations to John Martinis, Hartmut Neven, the incredible team at Google’s Quantum AI lab, and all their collaborators who helped make this happen. It’s a landmark scientific achievement and a very exciting day in quantum
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
Thank you to all of our incredible employees, present and past, who have made today possible ❤️ @rigetti
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
3 years
Today we're announcing a partnership with the world-class quantum algorithm and software team at @ZapataComputing to build an industry-first compilation toolchain explicitly designed for hybrid quantum-classical algorithms.
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
5 years
Power is being turned off for millions. The tunnels out of East Bay all closed. Fuel pumps won’t work. Backup generators will only last a few days. Will Bane succeed in drawing the Dark Knight out of hiding???
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
5 years
“There’s a fantastic company in Silicon Valley called Rigetti Computing that, from my perspective, actually has the most elegant architecture for quantum computing. And will probably reign in the very near future in terms of overall quantum capacity.”
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
2 years
Happy birthday to this sweet little (actually giant) boy. Love you Boazie
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Chad Rigetti
3 years
More (exciting!) details on the gate fidelity and speed performance of our 80-qubit Aspen-M system, which today is commercially available, including on AWS.
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
2 years
What a day!
@susanthesquark
Susan Rigetti
2 years
A big day for @rigetti 🎉🍾
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
5 years
How can you not love the nineties. And how is Ballmer not a verb yet?
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Jon Erlichman
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On this day in 1995: Windows 95 launched “Start Me Up” was its anthem:
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Chad Rigetti
3 years
Never seen an industry like quantum where just seeing reality clearly and doing the important practical work to unlock value is such a rare superpower.
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Chad Rigetti
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Is there any joy more true than teaching your 5 year old to ride her bike?
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
In the blink of an eye! Can’t believe today was our 5th annual holiday party! What an awesome crew
@rigetti
rigetti
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Celebrating a great week and an even better year! Rigetti holiday party 2019 was one for the books.
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
What a cool concept and an honor to be included! @WIRED ’s 25 People Who Are Racing To Save Us @rigetti
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Chad Rigetti
1 year
ChatGPT has made it possible for *anyone* to run an algorithm on 10,000+ GPUs/CPUs in an instant. You don’t need to write code or even to type (voice to text). That seems really, really important when thinking about some of the structural trends that this is going to kick off.
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
Special thank you to @AlchemistAcc and @ycombinator who saw the possibilities for @rigetti and supported us in the early days.
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Chad Rigetti
3 years
I had a blast talking with @azeem on HBR’s Exponential View podcast
@ExponentialView
Exponential View 🔮
3 years
Reaching quantum advantage could be the new race to the moon. @azeem discusses the near future of quantum computing with @ChadRigetti 👉
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
Our Chief Elf Officer 🎄
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
How do living things compute so efficiently? Aside from the incredible dermatological physiology that allows them to do this, how the heck do they calculate or optimize the pattern that they present to minimize detection??
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Chad Rigetti
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Our magical kiddo 😍
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
Figured it was time
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
Only with superconductors
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
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@fermatslibrary Resistance is futile
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Chad Rigetti
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Calling for a pause on corporate structure innovation so we can assess the potential impacts to humanity.
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Chad Rigetti
1 year
2/ I’m excited to help early stage quantum technology founders and teams build the next wave of great quantum companies and continue to bring about the quantum Information age. If you’re working on something new / early in quantum, or are thinking about it, please get in touch!
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
1 year
I’m holding out hope for a reasonable resolution of this fiasco and that the global innovation / startup / venture eco-system can avoid a bloodbath of chaos, layoffs and bankruptcies over the next few weeks.
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
11 months
If you don't know how to think about a terrorist attack that murders 100's of civilians, taking hostages, parading bodies, etc how the f*ck can you be trusted to lead an educational institution charged with shaping and training the next generation of scientists / leaders / etc?
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@ChadRigetti
Chad Rigetti
2 years
Very well deserved recognition for 4 luminaries of quantum information and quantum computing! Congratulations!
@brkthroughprize
Breakthrough
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Long before quantum computers, there were thinkers with the imagination to lay the conceptual foundation. Quantum pioneers Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, David Deutsch, Peter Shor win the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. @MIT @UniofOxford @UMontreal @IBMResearch
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Chad Rigetti
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Simple, accessible, clear, from nearly 40 years ago. We need more like Carl Sagan.
@carlsagandotcom
CarlSaganDotCom
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A lesson on the greenhouse effect with Carl Sagan. 🎥: Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
For those of you who don't know, @jmchow is one of the best and most wonderful people in quantum. Such a well deserved honor.
@jmchow
Jerry Chow
2 years
Extremely humbled to join the 2022 class of #ibm fellows. I’m so excited for this honor and congrats to my fellow honorees!
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Chad Rigetti
3 years
It was an honor to present to this distinguished delegation at Fermilab today!
@silviazorzetti
Silvia Zorzetti
3 years
Today we had the opportunity to present #QuantumComputing cutting-edge technology @Fermilab to a very distinguished delegation. @AGrassellino and @ChadRigetti talking to @SecGranholm @GovPritzker @SenatorDurbin @LaurenUnderwood @Nigel_Lockyer @ENERGY
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
uhhh... tech companies are more than software.
@Carnage4Life
Dare Obasanjo🐀
2 years
A simple test of whether a company is a tech company or not is if their problems can be fixed by writing more and better code. If not, it isn’t a tech company.
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Chad Rigetti
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I’m just literally shocked. @sama is one of the kindest, most supportive, brilliant, and human people I’ve ever worked with. Very few people in the history of tech have had such a positive impact.
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
Thank you @susanthesquark ❤️Thank you @wef for the honor and the incredible team @rigetti
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Chad Rigetti
3 years
Today, we are thrilled to announce our partnership with NASDAQ to pursue the development of high-impact quantum computing applications within the financial sector.
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Chad Rigetti
1 year
The compelling thing about the Star Trek vision of the future is that through eons of progress, building AGI, becoming interstellar, and meeting countless advanced non-human civilizations, we retain our essential humanity and we remain masters of our technology, not vice versa.
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Chad Rigetti
1 year
This is going to be a super important paper for superconducting qubits and quantum devices based on Josephson junctions. Very cool work!
@Patrick__Winkel
Patrick Winkel
1 year
In our most recent article, we report on the observation of higher harmonics in the Josephson effect of commonly used aluminum tunnel junctions beyond the celebrated sinusoidal current-phase relation.
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
Fantastic and exciting new work! Congrats @jenseisert and collaborators.
@jenseisert
Jens Eisert
2 years
Our early xmas present: We prove a super-polynomial #quantumadvantage of fault tolerant #quantumcomputers for combinatorial #optimization .
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
Whatever you do, you can be good at things and get good results without being all in. But great things are only possible by being all in. That’s just how it works.
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
@susanthesquark Have you read my PhD thesis?
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Chad Rigetti
3 years
I'm excited to talk with Spencer tomorrow about Rigetti and all things quantum!
@rigetti
rigetti
3 years
Tomorrow at noon PT/3 pm ET our CEO @ChadRigetti will be talking with @spencerrascoff , the co-chair of Supernova II, the SPAC taking Rigetti public. More info on the transaction at $SNII
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
As machines become broadly available over cloud and QEC and FTQC become experimental fields rather than purely theoretical, practical codes (ie work on real systems) for universal FTQC (incl. non-Clifford gates) with total overhead <100x will become commonplace.
@quantum_graeme
Graeme Smith
5 years
Please quote tweet this with your most controversial quantum information opinion.
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Chad Rigetti
1 year
Our industrial and defense innovation base, as of now, is hobbled.
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Chad Rigetti
1 year
I find it pretty hard to imagine scenarios where ongoing tech acceleration doesn’t make wealth distribution in the US even more extreme.
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
@dabacon @preskill Reminds me of this similar take from @vijaypande I think the jump to 30+ qubits, where it becomes faster to run hybrid algos on a QPU than on a typical simulator, could be surprisingly meaningful
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
While I'm an optimist for most quantum hardware modalities (Majorana's being one big exception), I view this as a pretty strong statement of a) superconducting as the leading modality right now; and b) the strong likelihood that superconducting continues to win in the QEC era.
@CraigGidney
Craig Gidney
2 years
The big-table-of-qec-experiments was updated for 2022 by @abengtsson91 . It's near the end of the supplement in (section XVIII). The number of rounds is noticeably getting bigger in recent years, and now the quantum distances are starting to go up too!
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
Awesome to see this! Congrats @c_weedbrook @3rdquantization et al
@3rdquantization
Josh Izaac
5 years
First public demonstration of @XanaduAI 's photonic quantum chip, running a job submitted via Strawberry Fields at the @creativedlab #QuantumComputing
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Chad Rigetti
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I'll excited to be doing an AMA on Reddit on Dec 15th. Thanks @susanthesquark for taking a picture of me.
@rigetti
rigetti
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Join our CEO @ChadRigetti for a @Reddit AMA on December 15 at 4pm PT, moderated by @canadian20200 . Submit your questions here:
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Chad Rigetti
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🥰🥰
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
Our press release:
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
My favorite take so far
@leopd
Leo Dirac
5 years
This is pretty cool - AWS announces a public quantum computing (QC) platform named after my grandfather's notation for wave functions. Great that even in its infancy, QC is already getting democratized, not centralized in the hands of a few powerful research groups.
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Chad Rigetti
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This is exciting and high quality work. Congrats!
@ColesThermoAI
Patrick Coles
5 years
Congrats to our former summer students @charl_bp and @ryanmlarose . Their paper presents a variational algorithm for linear systems, with heuristics showing efficient scaling in precision and condition number, and size 32 x 32 implementation on @Rigetti QPU
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Chad Rigetti
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Cover Story is officially out today! Congratulations @susanthesquarkl !! I'm so proud of you 😍❤️
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
Nice article in @TechCrunch by @fredericl “By collaborating with AWS, we will be able to deliver access to our systems to a much broader market and help accelerate the growth of this emerging industry,” said Chad Rigetti.
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Chad Rigetti
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Not a bad idea. Practically speaking leading/shaping rounds and setting terms with founders vs joining once everything is largely set are *really* different.
@JoshuaSteinman
joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸)
2 years
We should probably be splitting venture into two categories: VC’s who lead deals, and VC’s who don’t.
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Chad Rigetti
5 years
@quantumVerd 2/ That said these things are a trap. I respect the team at Forbes and the 30 under 30 brand. But in our field, this will only teach you to care about the wrong things, and teach others to value the wrong things about YOU.
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Chad Rigetti
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Thank you and gratitude to all of you who have served and sacrificed, and your families and loved ones for their support and the burden they have carried. We have something essential worth protecting and defending, and you have risen to the call. ❤️❤️🙏🙏
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Chad Rigetti
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This was so fun!
@rigetti
rigetti
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We do our happy hour entertainment like we do our fab: in house. Thanks for the great show #EntangledStrings !
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Chad Rigetti
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A lot of exciting things happening in quantum algos for finance. Nice work! We’d love to have you test this on @rigetti systems
@charl_bp
Carlos Bravo-Prieto
5 years
In collaboration with S. Ramos-Calderer, A. Pérez-Salinas ( @adpersa ), D. García-Martín, J. Cortada, J. Planagumà and J.I. Latorre ( @j_i_latorre ). scirate: arXiv: @QUANTIC_BSC @BSC_CNS @caixabank @ICC_UB (2/2)
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
in hindsight???
@WSBChairman
Chairman
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In hindsight, a picture of a monkey selling for $3.4M, 109x the average US annual income, was an obvious sign the market was screwed.
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Chad Rigetti
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Love that modern life is so busy we all don’t have time to put a subject in our sentences.
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Chad Rigetti
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This is an incredible program to grow entrepreneurship and innovation on the prairies, great job by @mcfarljo and all the founders and teams.
@mcfarljo
Jordan McFarlen
2 years
In just 4 years at @cultivatorsk … Our founders have: 🚀 Raised $59M in Private Capital 🚀 Generated $39M in Revenue 🚀 Raised more capital and generated more revenue in 2022 than the prev 3yrs combined… You can build great things from anywhere. 🗞️
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Chad Rigetti
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I try to avoid politics on here but this tweet is amazing
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
5 years
To show you how dishonest the LameStream Media is, I used the word Liddle’, not Liddle, in discribing Corrupt Congressman Liddle’ Adam Schiff. Low ratings @CNN purposely took the hyphen out and said I spelled the word little wrong. A small but never ending situation with CNN!
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Chad Rigetti
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Thank you for the kind words ❤️
@gralston
Geoff Ralston
2 years
Congratulations to @ChadRigetti and @rigetti ( @ycombinator S14) for their @Nasdaq listing. Chad is an epic founder: brilliant, resilient, and unbelievably determined. They are creating the future of quantum computing.
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Chad Rigetti
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Love this
@jedc
Jed Christiansen
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Perhaps the most important startup equation? (Constant improvement trumps all) As spotted at @homebrew HQ.
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Chad Rigetti
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This is awesome to see. Understanding how to get the most out of quantum computers now and in the future means dealing with the messy reality of practical noise models and designing realistic decoders, this is a wonderful result @BenBrow31417089
@peterlmcmahon
Peter McMahon
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A 5% threshold for the surface code if the noise is appropriately biased!
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Chad Rigetti
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❤️
@ycombinator
Y Combinator
2 years
Congrats @ChadRigetti and the entire team at @rigetti (YC S14)!
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Chad Rigetti
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So yes he’s eating my nose and in that moment what I’m thinking is: oh no my sunscreen isn’t safe for babies.
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Chad Rigetti
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Aspen-M is built from two 40-qubit chips
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
💯 so true
@Jai__Malik
Jai Malik
2 years
The unsung heroes in startup world are the early employees at hard tech startups ⁠— in aerospace, health/bio, energy, manufacturing, construction, and logistics. Building things that matter takes incredible patience, discipline, and precision; much to be admired.
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Chad Rigetti
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This is so true
@jaltma
Jack Altman
2 years
One of the more surprising things in business is the degree to which an inexperienced person with the right mindset will outperform a highly experienced person without it.
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
On point.
@rdviii
Rod Van Meter 🌻
2 years
Re: that "Quantum computing has a hype problem" article, something I wrote last year:
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Chad Rigetti
1 year
For those who don’t know, basically SVB = Small Business, Innovation and Defense Technology Bank of America
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Chad Rigetti
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👇👇👇
@parkerconrad
Parker Conrad
9 months
The right lesson is that contrary to conventional wisdom, boards are almost always destabilizing forces at companies, most board members destroy value & have too little context on your co. If you are "leaning on" the board to grow you are going to be very sad and disappointed.
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Chad Rigetti
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We've been pioneering hybrid quantum-classical computing for close to a decade. This hybrid framework is now the predominant approach to developing useful and practical QC and the drive to true quantum advantage.
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Chad Rigetti
1 year
Every time we say “human-level AI” we reduce our own (human) abilities to those that project well onto what AI software can do.
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Chad Rigetti
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I'm grateful for all the incredible content on here, but the tweet I've thought about more than any other is the one about people talking into their cell phones like pop tarts.
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Chad Rigetti
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@quantumVerd 1/ agree you deserve it Guillaume, you are one of the most original and best people in quantum algorithms right now. You’ve shown a discernment to see things that are really important before others do. And you know how to get shit done w/o a map.
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Chad Rigetti
1 year
I absolutely love, and we don’t do enough to appreciate and cherish, the incredible and glorious diversity of America.
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Chad Rigetti
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👇🏻
@GaryMarcus
Gary Marcus
1 year
Honestly, why isn’t this the news story? it seems like an awfully big deal. the media’s obsession with Musk maybe did an important question a disservice.
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Chad Rigetti
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❤️❤️
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Chad Rigetti
3 years
My three year-old’s favorite word now seems to be “hanitizer”
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Chad Rigetti
2 years
Back when we were just getting started
@wjzeng
Will Zeng
2 years
And a little impromptu walking tour with a few familiar faces!
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