Dr. Ernest Blatchley

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323 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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TBPN · Open-Source AI Battle, Google Throttles Meta, Micron Margins Moon | Edward Coristine & Tai Groot, Chad Rigetti, Pim de Witte, Yadin Soffer, Jack Morris, Neil Movva, Jakob Diepenbrock, Chris Altchek · 29 Jun 2026 podcast
What's going on?
I'm doing great.
How are you guys doing?
We're doing fantastic.
You bet.
Yeah, great to be here, guys.
I started, I got interested in quantum computing when I was a senior in college and did a PhD in this field and spent about three years at IBM Research in the early days, you know, helping build up the quantum computing team there and then started my own company that was Rigetti Computing in 2014.
uh, I was introduced to Sam Altman and, uh, you know, he said we had coffee and he said, Hey, well, have you, you should do YC.
And I said, well, what's YC.
And, uh, and so he explained to me what Y Combinator was.
And that was the first batch after Sam had taken over YC in 2014.
And he brought in a bunch of, uh, hard tech companies into Y Combinator for the first time.
And so I got to be part of this incredible group of companies, including Helion, uh,
oklo which is now public ginkgo bioworks ginkgo bioworks uh yeah boom was a couple batches after me but there was this cohort summer 20 but yeah so anyways uh it was a fantastic experience ended up running rigetti for about 10 years we took it public and in early 2022 uh through a spac transaction or the third quantum company i think to go public and so that was an incredible journey uh
And, you know, so I've been in quantum computing, I usually say, my entire adult life and in Silicon Valley for a big part of that.
But it's just a really fascinating mix.
And there's incredible people working in this area.
There's incredible technology that's being developed.
And it's going to change the relationship between artificial intelligence and computing infrastructure.
And that's what we're working on at Sigletree.
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