[sfobiab]

I've met the founder or D-Wave and have known them casually over the last few years. Few people epitomize scam artist and scientific buffoonery quite as much as this person.

They are now on to their 2nd or 3rd post-D-Wave company and each time they have taken on massive funding rounds at large valuations and then have moved on to form a new company. Call me old fashioned, but something doesn't smell right.

I hope D-Wave, Rigetti and others can move our field forward, but this company more than any other feels like a big shell game.

[bitL]

If that person specializes in very early company stages, getting some knowledgeable team and funding, then moving on when all pieces are in place, it might be a valid strategy. How many investors have any clue about quantum computing or are even capable of understanding anything beyond simple examples/hype in order to finance it? The business world's level of technical expertise is really low even with informed investors and buffoonery about anything is rampant.

[shdh]

Didn't realize Geordie Rose had been hopping around so much.