Pete Shadbolt

12 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 10, 2025 by Pete Shadbolt · across every show →

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Sep 10, 2025 positive
Insight
Shadbolt: $1B in revenue marks the starting point for useful quantum computing
“When you're making a ton of revenue you're probably doing something that, you know, within reason you could call useful and like a billion dollars of revenue would be a nice starting point for a useful machine like this. Yeah, definitely what is not useful is …”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:46:55 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 10, 2025 bullish
Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: PsiQuantum has raised more private capital than any quantum peer
“That's right to my knowledge, yeah.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 5:30 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
Shadbolt: Quantum computers will generate training data for standard GPU models
“With that, we should be able to generate extremely precise data in otherwise unexplored territory of chemical space of material space and use that data to drive to train a conventional machine learning system. I think through that kind of mechanism, we can Pro…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 31:05 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 10, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: Quantum computing companies are far more likely to go to zero
“Yeah, I think that there is a serious prospect that these companies do that, but there is a much greater chance that they go to zero is basically my simple way of putting it.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 48:04 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Opinion
Shadbolt: Hyperscaler leaders understand quantum computing requires 1M qubits
“I've actually been honestly pretty impressed that they know you need about a million qubits. They know you need error correction. They know that it's not for PowerPoint and Excel. They understand, you know, these guys have got 20 other things of extreme high p…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:51:03 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 10, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Shadbolt: PsiQuantum employs a 50-person team partnering with industrial companies
“So we have about a 50 person applications team who engage with car companies, materials companies, energy companies, et cetera to prepare them for the existence of that big machine.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 56:50 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 10, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shadbolt: Quantum has consumed billions and 100k human-years without useful machines
“Quantum computing has already consumed billions and billions and billions of dollars of capital. It has consumed the entire adult life of tens of thousands of our best scientists and researchers. Some total has got to be nearly a 100,000 years of human life. B…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 1:35:41 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 10, 2025 neutral
Insight
Shadbolt: Basic qubit physics is a small part of quantum scale
“That stuff is really important, but it's a small piece of the puzzle of building a data center sized machine.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 49:42 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 10, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Shadbolt: Nobody has built a useful quantum computer yet
“Nobody has a useful quantum computer.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 47:34 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
Shadbolt: One-million-qubit quantum computer will outperform all global conventional compute
“A single million qubit quantum computer would outperform The net total of conventional computing on the entire planet. So you take all of the supercomputers on the planet, you take every AWS system, every Azure system, you add them all together, and we trash t…”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 29:25 Raising $2 Billion to Become the SpaceX of Quantum | PsiQuantum's Pete Shadbolt · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 11, 2025 negative
Insight
Shadbolt: Quantum Founders Cannot Win by Mudslinging Rival Architectures
“In quantum computing, you get all of these founders, they all show up and they all think that their way is the only way to do it and sling mud at everybody else. Everything else is crap. Like, you can't win that game. Like, nobody wins in that game.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 20:35 Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Sep 11, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Pete Shadbolt: Quantum computing has repeatedly failed to deliver on its promises
“Quantum computing is a pain in the ass. And it is, you know, failed promises and endless confusion and all of this competitive jostling and it's a pain in the ass and it's like failed to deliver many, many times.”
Pete Shadbolt Sep 11, 2025 ▶ 7:41 Quantum’s SpaceX Moment? Ashlee Vance on PsiQuantum’s Moonshot · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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