Dr. Ernest Blatchley
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
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I think either can work, and there's a right answer for different companies, and you've got to ask yourself the question what you're trying to achieve.
Is it liquidity for your early investors?
Is it primarily a capital-raising activity?
Is it to have liquidity for your early employees, for example, with some companies where you've got a 10-year exercise window for your options?
Zooming out and the Regetti kind of taking public journey,
That was a point in Silicon Valley when quantum computing was growing in commercial maturation and the technology was maturing.
But a lot of the capital in the markets at that point had migrated for deep tech companies, particularly just wasn't available in the private market.
So when you look at
2020 to 2022 most of that capital was actually sitting you know a lot of it was sitting in SPAC trusts on the public markets and they were in those SPACs were hungry to cut a deal and so a lot of companies ended up going public during this wave simply because the founders the executive teams were making the decision that that gave them the best chance of capitalizing the business going forward um
And I think there's a right answer for different things.
And now in the past month or so, Continuum has gone public via IPO, a tremendous company that's made great progress.
And so the quantum, you know, the public markets for quantum computing have reached a point of maturity.
There's analysts that deeply understand the technology that are writing about and covering different companies.
It's a very, very interesting marketplace.
And then
In terms of what it's like in the decisions that different companies have to make, I think the key thing is to take a long-term perspective on what you're trying to accomplish and what kind of business you're trying to build, what kind of cap table do you want to build, and what strategy best suits is best going to help you achieve that.
Well, quantum was a different thing back then.
Look, I think there's two quantum companies that don't have a Q in their name.
And I started both of them.
One is Rigetti, another is Sigildry, which is what I'm focused on.
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