Google has roughly 100 people on its Santa Barbara quantum computing team
Sundar Pichai · HIBT Lab! Google: Sundar Pichai · Jun 9, 2022 · at 30:22
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, describes what keeps him grounded and motivated while managing executive stress.
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“The fact that I can go talk to our quantum team in Santa Barbara, and there are a hundred people working on literally some of the most state of the art technology That humanity has ever worked on.”
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