Congrats to the team, well deserved! I met Chad once at a quantum computing conference in Zurich in 2011, when he was still working for IBM as a researcher. I m

Congrats to the team, well deserved! I met Chad once at a quantum computing conference in Zurich in 2011, when he was still working for IBM as a researcher. I myself finished my PhD in 2012, leaving academia to work in software. In 2013 I contacted Chad and we had a short Skype call where we talked about quantum computing, since we were both interested in doing something in the space. I don't remember why I didn't follow up on the call, I guess I was busy working on my own ideas and forgot about it. In 2014 I then had the chance to join John Martinis' quantum computing team (which was later acquired by Google), which I declined because I had just won a small grant for starting a startup and wanted to pursue that. After that didn't take off I interviewed again with Rigetti in 2017, but ultimately turned down an offer to join because I still wanted to start something of my own (also their offer didn't seem very attractive to me at the time). So I guess in hindsight those were pretty bad decisions. That said I really cheer for the team, they have built an amazing company and achieved things I wouldn't have thought possible, so I really hope they continue on their path to even bigger success. And for me I hope I'll make better decisions in the future.