Dirk Sakil
Senior Leadership, Strangeworks. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Dirk Zechiel is a veteran software entrepreneur specializing in mathematical optimization who co-founded and led Quantagonia until its acquisition by Strangeworks in 2025. He previously co-founded and led Gurobi GmbH and founded the sports scheduling startup Ligalytics.
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Everything Dirk Sakil said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Sakil: Industry-ready quantum computers are three to five years away
“Industry availability of these computers would take at least three years. We estimate three to five years”
Quantagonia plans to compile x86 code to run on quantum computers
“And we will do basically the same for quantum computing.
So put your x-eighty-six code in and you can run it on the quantum computer in the future.”
Quantagonia's 11 enterprise LOIs do not guarantee payment upon hitting benchmarks
“No, it's not paying Z, but it's stating that we have a joint collaboration, and if that turns out, then we work on a commercial relationship, yeah.”
Sakil: Optimization enterprise customers are willing to pay six-figure annual contracts
“And they, as I said, they are saving a lot of money if they get to the best solution, and they're easily willing to pay in the six digits US dollar space per year, for example.”
Quantagonia has signed 10 to 11 enterprise letters of intent
“We have signed up with 10, 11 customers on an LOI basis.”
Sakil: NFL runs thousands of AWS nodes for months to generate schedules
“Like the NFL, they are running several thousand notes on Amazon for a few months just to get the best NFL schedule in the US.”
German energy companies trade in 15-minute windows requiring rapid compute decisions
“For example, in Germany all the energy is traded within windows of 15 minutes. So a big, Energy companies, they make every 15 minutes a decision. Should we buy energy? Should we produce energy? Do we get enough solar energy for the next 15 minutes or wind ener…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Dirk's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Senior Leadership, Strangeworks | 1 | 7 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Top Founders → |