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Cyril Shtabtsovsky
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Conversations with the scientists and engineers reshaping our world.

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  1. 21 Jun

    John Martinis | Nobel Prize, Entrepreneurship vs Google, AI Replacing Jobs

    John Martinis is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, recognized in 2025 for his pioneering 40-year career developing superconducting qubits. He led Google’s team that achieved quantum supremacy in 2019, and today he is co-founder of Qolab, his quantum computing startup. 00:43 – Welcome & Introduction00:48 – Science Fiction and "For All Mankind"01:36 – Zero to One & Leaving Google04:35 – Entrepreneurial Mindset & Google Experience05:03 – Finding a Co-Founder (Alan)08:02 – Raising Money as a Truth-Teller08:54 – Academia vs Startup Life & Nobel Prize11:33 – Is Quantum Volume a Good Metric?13:52 – Optical Quantum Computing & Hype16:07 – Science Culture: France vs USA18:28 – Quantum Computing in France20:15 – Theorists vs Experimentalists in Quantum23:08 – Running Towards Problems (Entrepreneurial Mindset)24:54 – Nobel Prize & Timelines in Research27:48 – US Government Quantum Funding28:38 – Issues with Academia & Publishing30:20 – AI Replacing Jobs & Impact on Scientists33:51 – Nobel Prize or Build a Unicorn?34:08 – Favorite LLM (Grok & Gemini)34:30 – $10M Research Funding Idea35:10 – Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything

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Conversations with the scientists and engineers reshaping our world.

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    Cyril Shtabtsovsky
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