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Peter Barrett

Co-Founder and General Partner, Playground Global. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Barrett focuses on early-stage deep-tech investments across quantum computing, next-generation semiconductors, robotics, and synthetic biology, holding over 100 patents. Prior to co-founding Playground Global in 2015, he founded Rocket Science Games, built early digital video codecs, worked at WebTV and Microsoft, and served as CTO of CloudCar.

What they said4 Shows1

Everything Peter Barrett said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Barrett: Moore's Law Is Not Dead, Merely Resting

“We are not at the end of Moore's law. It's not dead. It's merely resting. There are ways of doing computation hitherto unimagined, right?”

Peter Barrett Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 3:38 Inside the $4.5B Startup Building Brain-Inspired Chips for AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Barrett: Transformers Are Not the End State of AI

“Transformers are not the end state of AI, right? AI is Embarrassingly stupid compared to many of the examples we are carrying around in our heads, both in terms of what it can achieve, but also how much power it uses to do it.”

Peter Barrett Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 4:11 Inside the $4.5B Startup Building Brain-Inspired Chips for AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Barrett: Superconducting Logic Can Boost Compute Productivity 100x to 1,000x

“That things like superconducting logic stand you know, give us the opportunity to increase productivity of computation by factor of a hundred, factor of a thousand.”

Peter Barrett Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 3:58 Inside the $4.5B Startup Building Brain-Inspired Chips for AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

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Barrett: Playground Backed Nervana for Writing Nvidia Microcode Better Than Nvidia

“We were lucky enough to host Naveen back in the day when it was Nirvana Systems, where we first invested because he, those guys were doing, before they had hardware, they were doing NVIDIA microcode better than NVIDIA was.”

Peter Barrett Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 5:17 Inside the $4.5B Startup Building Brain-Inspired Chips for AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Peter's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
SOURCERYLEDGER	Co-Founder and General Partner, Playground Global	1	4	—	full record on Sourcery →