Shyam Sankar
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So your ability to communicate securely and to the extent anyone has been storing historical encrypted communications, their ability to decrypt that will be near instantaneous. So it has huge implications there. But then for your ability going forward now, you're going to have to adopt that so you have quantum proof. quantum encryption that works.
But then I think there's even more implications beyond that. The encryption is the first thing that we have to worry about. The next thing is, how are we going to employ this for decision advantage? How close are we to that? Well, that's kind of an open question.
But then I think there's even more implications beyond that. The encryption is the first thing that we have to worry about. The next thing is, how are we going to employ this for decision advantage? How close are we to that? Well, that's kind of an open question.
But then I think there's even more implications beyond that. The encryption is the first thing that we have to worry about. The next thing is, how are we going to employ this for decision advantage? How close are we to that? Well, that's kind of an open question.
I think really smart people I know keep saying we're really close, but really smart people in the 60s thought we were 10 years away from AI. We'll have to see.
I think really smart people I know keep saying we're really close, but really smart people in the 60s thought we were 10 years away from AI. We'll have to see.
I think really smart people I know keep saying we're really close, but really smart people in the 60s thought we were 10 years away from AI. We'll have to see.
My father did. Your father did. Yeah. So my father was the last of nine children in a single, he grew up, he was born in a single room mud hut in the south of India. And his siblings all helped him get to college. And India had its own version, still does, have its own version of DEI there. So he was not allowed, he's a very smart man, but he wasn't allowed to go to med school.
My father did. Your father did. Yeah. So my father was the last of nine children in a single, he grew up, he was born in a single room mud hut in the south of India. And his siblings all helped him get to college. And India had its own version, still does, have its own version of DEI there. So he was not allowed, he's a very smart man, but he wasn't allowed to go to med school.
My father did. Your father did. Yeah. So my father was the last of nine children in a single, he grew up, he was born in a single room mud hut in the south of India. And his siblings all helped him get to college. And India had its own version, still does, have its own version of DEI there. So he was not allowed, he's a very smart man, but he wasn't allowed to go to med school.
He couldn't get a slot, but he became a pharmacist. That's like the next best thing for him. And he was sleeping, after he graduated from pharmacy school, he was sleeping literally under the kitchen table of one of his brothers. And his sister-in-law, brother's wife, got kind of tired of having him around the house, so found him a job in Nigeria. He was 23 at the time.
He couldn't get a slot, but he became a pharmacist. That's like the next best thing for him. And he was sleeping, after he graduated from pharmacy school, he was sleeping literally under the kitchen table of one of his brothers. And his sister-in-law, brother's wife, got kind of tired of having him around the house, so found him a job in Nigeria. He was 23 at the time.
He couldn't get a slot, but he became a pharmacist. That's like the next best thing for him. And he was sleeping, after he graduated from pharmacy school, he was sleeping literally under the kitchen table of one of his brothers. And his sister-in-law, brother's wife, got kind of tired of having him around the house, so found him a job in Nigeria. He was 23 at the time.
And so he, you know, young man, excited about adventure. He went to Nigeria as a pharmacist to build the first pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in all of Africa. Until then, all the drugs were imported. And so he did really well for himself at a very young age. I was probably born seven years after he'd been living in Nigeria. My mom went back to India to have me.
And so he, you know, young man, excited about adventure. He went to Nigeria as a pharmacist to build the first pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in all of Africa. Until then, all the drugs were imported. And so he did really well for himself at a very young age. I was probably born seven years after he'd been living in Nigeria. My mom went back to India to have me.
And so he, you know, young man, excited about adventure. He went to Nigeria as a pharmacist to build the first pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in all of Africa. Until then, all the drugs were imported. And so he did really well for himself at a very young age. I was probably born seven years after he'd been living in Nigeria. My mom went back to India to have me.
And then I came back to Nigeria as soon as I was old enough to travel. So really, my first three or so years of my life, I was in Nigeria. But the reason that came to an end, we had a horrible armed robbery in the house, which we lived across the street from the manufacturing facility. where all of the cash was kept from the operation.
And then I came back to Nigeria as soon as I was old enough to travel. So really, my first three or so years of my life, I was in Nigeria. But the reason that came to an end, we had a horrible armed robbery in the house, which we lived across the street from the manufacturing facility. where all of the cash was kept from the operation.
And then I came back to Nigeria as soon as I was old enough to travel. So really, my first three or so years of my life, I was in Nigeria. But the reason that came to an end, we had a horrible armed robbery in the house, which we lived across the street from the manufacturing facility. where all of the cash was kept from the operation.
And so it was a little bit of an inside job of people who worked there who did this. They decapitated the dog. They pistol-whipped dad. They threatened to execute him. They threatened my mom. I was a child, and really, I was just excited to have visitors. You can't control a child. I was just excited to have visitors in the middle of the night.