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President and CEO of Y Combinator. Co-founder Initialized Capital.
Co-creator Django. Creator Datasette and llm CLI. Prolific AI blogger.
Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Turing Award winner. Founding father of convolutional neural networks. Vocal on world models, JEPA, and the limits of LLMs.
Angel investor. Founder This Week in Startups and LAUNCH. All-In Podcast co-host.
Founder DeepLearning.AI and Landing AI. Co-founder Coursera. Stanford adjunct professor.
Wharton professor. Author of Co-Intelligence. One of the most prolific voices on what LLMs can actually do in practice.
NVIDIA Senior Director of AI and Distinguished Scientist leading robotics and physical AI efforts. Co-leads GEAR lab on simulation, embodied agents, and building generalist humanoid robots for real-world tasks.
Co-founder a16z. Techno-optimist. Software is eating the world.
Director of Google Quantum AI since 2006. Architect of Google's quantum computing program, from Sycamore to Willow chip. Quantum hardware + quantum ML.
Tech evangelist and futurist. Spatial computing and AI analyst.
CEO of Shopify. Issued the famous internal memo declaring AI non-optional across Shopify in April 2025. Operator perspective.
Research lab behind GPT-5, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex. Co-founded by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and others in 2015.
AI safety company building Claude. Founded by former OpenAI researchers. Co-founders: Dario Amodei (CEO), Daniela Amodei (President), Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Sam McCandlish, Jared Kaplan, Chris Olah.
Former Tesla AI director, OpenAI co-founder. LLM Knowledge Bases pattern. Neural Networks: Zero to Hero.
Founder Social Capital. All-In Podcast co-host. SPAC pioneer.
Co-founder and CEO Google DeepMind. Nobel laureate for AlphaFold.
Founder of Oculus VR, which popularized modern consumer virtual reality (acquired by Facebook). Founded Anduril Industries to build AI-powered autonomous defense systems and spatial computing technologies.
Oak Ridge National Lab Quantum Computing Institute Director. Runs the U.S. Department of Energy quantum-HPC integration program. The single most relevant person for "first adopter" hybrid systems work.
CEO of Vercel. Creator of Next.js, V0. Best product-design thinker in the developer-AI space.
PsiQuantum CEO and co-founder. Building the first million-qubit photonic quantum computer using silicon photonics fabricated at GlobalFoundries. Bristol University background, world-leading photonic quantum hardware.
CEO of Replit. Pioneered AI-native coding with Replit Agent.
Creator of Keras. Now at Anthropic. Author of "Deep Learning with Python". Most thoughtful voice on AGI benchmarking via the ARC challenge.
Harvard University, co-founder of QuEra Computing. Built the 256-qubit neutral atom processor (2021), currently the leading non-superconducting path to large-scale quantum machines. Pioneer of Rydberg-atom quantum gates.
MIT. Invented Shor's algorithm (1994) — the polynomial-time quantum algorithm for integer factorization that motivates the entire field. The reason quantum computing matters for cryptography and the reason post-quantum cryptography exists.
University of Toronto. Pioneered the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) — the workhorse algorithm for quantum chemistry on NISQ devices. Co-founded Zapata Computing. Leading work on quantum machine learning for drug discovery.
RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing director, University of Tokyo. Built the first superconducting charge qubit in 1999 — every IBM, Google, and Rigetti qubit descends from this work. The deepest cite in superconducting quantum computing.
Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, X. Reusable rockets, electric cars, AI, neural interfaces, Mars. The firehose.
Founder AngelList. Investor and philosopher. How to Get Rich without getting lucky.
Google's AI research division, led by Demis Hassabis. Behind AlphaFold, AlphaGo, Gemini, and fundamental RL research.
CEO OpenAI. Former president Y Combinator.
Co-founder and CEO Anthropic. Former VP Research OpenAI. AI safety researcher.
Founder and CEO NVIDIA. AI compute pioneer.
President and Co-founder of OpenAI. Former CTO of Stripe. One of the most important voices on frontier model development, scaling, and AI safety.
Interactive Brokers, Inc. is an American multinational brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. It operates the largest electronic trading platform in the United States by number of daily average revenue trades. In 2024, the platform processed an average of 2.6 million trades per trading day. Interactive Brokers is the largest foreign exchange market broker and is one of the largest prime brokers servicing commodity brokers. The company brokers stocks, options, futures contracts, exchange of futures for physicals, options on futures, bonds, mutual funds, currency, cryptocurrency, contracts for difference, derivatives, and trading in prediction markets. Interactive Brokers offers direct market access, omnibus and non-disclosed broker accounts, and provides clearing services.
Co-founder and CEO Perplexity. AI-powered answer engine.
Co-founder and CEO of Lovable. Vibe-coding startup, reached $400M ARR in early 2026.
Co-founder and CEO Stripe. Progress Studies co-founder.
VP Google Labs + Gemini App. Took over Gemini product in 2025 after Sissie Hsiao. TIME 100 AI 2025.
Andreessen Horowitz is an American privately-held venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States. It was founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
Founder of Stratechery, the original premium tech analysis newsletter. Author of Aggregation Theory. Hosts Dithering with John Gruber and Sharp Tech.
Founder and general partner at Craft Ventures. Former COO of PayPal, founder of Yammer. All-In Podcast co-host. AI Czar appointment under Trump admin.
AI-powered answer engine replacing traditional search. Founded by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski.
Product lead at Google AI Studio. Runs developer experience for Gemini API. Very prolific on X.
Open-source framework for LLM applications + LangSmith observability platform. Founded by Harrison Chase. $125M Series B Oct 2025 at $1.25B.
Xanadu Quantum Technologies. Co-author of the foundational textbook on quantum machine learning. Defined the field — if you cite QML and don't cite Schuld, you're not serious.
Mr. PR in the social media and tech space according to Scoble. Part of top tech/FriendFeed list.
Co-creator of Ethereum, the leading smart contract blockchain platform. Shapes Web3, decentralized finance, governance, and explores intersections between crypto, AI, and scalable decentralized systems.
AI developer advocate and writer. Frequently appears in Scoble's AI newsmakers and influencers rosters.
Author of Lenny's Newsletter and host of Lenny's Podcast. Former Airbnb product lead. Now the most influential voice in product management with weekly interviews of top operators.
YouTube channel: Wes Roth
CEO and co-founder of Box, the enterprise cloud content management platform increasingly powered by AI. Active commentator on startup strategy, cloud computing, AI productivity tools, and spatial computing trends.
Economics professor at George Mason. Hosts Conversations with Tyler. Co-author of Marginal Revolution. The most read economics blogger and one of the most curious minds alive.
AI-first code editor. Founded by Aman Sanger, Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark. Largest growth story in AI coding tools.
Co-founder of LangChain. AI framework pioneer featured in Scoble's AI founders and newsmakers discussions.
European frontier AI lab founded by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix. Known for open-weight models and the Mistral + Mixtral families.
YouTube channel: Alex Hormozi
YouTube channel: Arvind on AI
Open-source AI cloud and inference infrastructure. Co-founded by Vipul Ved Prakash. $305M Series B. Major player in open-model inference.
Product lead for Codex at OpenAI. Running the coding-agent category.
Co-founder Twitter and Block. Funded Bluesky. Open protocols advocate.
YouTube channel: Upstream with Erik Torenberg
One of the leading political bloggers who brings tech into things often. In Scoble's hand-picked top tech bloggers roster.
Host of Capital Allocators, the leading podcast on institutional investing. Author of Capital Allocators. Former co-CIO at Protégé Partners. Interviews top institutional investors.
YouTube channel: The Investor's Podcast Network
YouTube channel: Yahoo Finance
Prompt engineering expert and AI researcher. Key figure Scoble follows in his AI researchers and newsmakers lists.
Global Affairs Canada is the department of the Government of Canada that manages Canada's diplomatic and consular relations, promotes Canadian international trade, and leads Canada's international development and humanitarian assistance. It is also responsible for maintaining Canadian government offices abroad with diplomatic and consular status on behalf of all government departments.
Air Canada is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Canada, by size and passengers carried. Air Canada is headquartered in the borough of Saint-Laurent in the city of Montreal. The airline, founded in 1937, provides scheduled and charter air transport for passengers and cargo to 222 destinations worldwide. It operates major hubs at Montréal–Trudeau, Toronto–Pearson and Vancouver. Air Canada is a founding member of the Star Alliance.
Turing Award winner. Godfather of deep learning. Nobel Prize in Physics 2024.
McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".
LinkedIn co-founder, Greylock partner, host of Masters of Scale. Author of Blitzscaling, The Startup of You. Now one of the most active AI investors and thinkers.
Tech columnist at the New York Times. Co-hosts Hard Fork. Author of Futureproof. Covers AI, platforms, and the social impact of tech.
Programming legend behind Doom and Quake at id Software. Former CTO of Oculus advancing consumer VR; now CEO of Keen Technologies building AGI with focus on efficient compute, simulation, and spatial interfaces.
Princeton CS associate professor. Systems for ML, LLM serving, video systems, networked systems. Runs the SNS (Systems and Networking Systems) Group. Former PhD advisor work on lots of PLDI/OSDI/NSDI papers.
Social networking analyst and expert. Included in Scoble's recommended lists and SUL alternative roster.
Runs Techmeme. Inventor of Techmeme. Prominently featured in Scoble's tech bloggers roster.
YouTube channel: Dwarkesh Patel
CEO and founder of The Production Board. Former CEO of Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto for ~$1B). All-In Podcast co-host. Biotech, food systems, climate.
Founder of Platformer, contributing editor at New York Magazine. Co-hosts Hard Fork with Kevin Roose at the New York Times. Tech and platforms reporter.
YouTube channel: AI at Meta
watchOS is the operating system of the Apple Watch, developed by Apple. It is based on iOS, the operating system used by the iPhone, and has many similar features. Its original version was released on April 24, 2015, along with the Apple Watch, the only device that runs watchOS. watchOS exposes an API called WatchKit for developer use.
YouTube channel: AI Engineer
YouTube channel: Y Combinator
Data framework for LLM applications, focused on RAG. Founded by Jerry Liu.
Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Its name has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as a friendly, male-gendered counterpart to AI assistants like Alexa and Siri.
YouTube channel: Tim Ferriss
The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the Times serves as one of the country's newspapers of record. As of August 2025, The New York Times had 11.88 million total and 11.3 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 580,000 print subscribers. The New York Times is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publisher is A. G. Sulzberger. The Times is headquartered at The New York T
Barry Ritholtz is an American businessman and author. He is the founder and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, a financial planning and asset management firm with over $5 billion in assets under management. He first came to public notice for his warning about derivatives and mortgages leading to the subprime mortgage crisis.
IBM Fellow and VP of IBM Quantum. Shapes the industry quantum hardware roadmap.
Head of ChatGPT at OpenAI. Grew ChatGPT to 700M+ weekly active users. Currently re-architecting it as an operating system.
YouTube channel: Greg Isenberg
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is an American multinational hospitality company that manages and franchises a broad portfolio of hotels, resorts, and timeshare properties. Founded by Conrad Hilton in May 1919, the company is now led by Christopher J. Nassetta. Hilton is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, United States.
Caltech theoretical physicist. Coined NISQ and quantum supremacy. Director of Caltech Institute for Quantum Information and Matter.
Apple Intelligence is a generative artificial intelligence system developed by Apple Inc. Relying on a combination of on-device and server processing, it was announced on June 10, 2024, at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, as a built-in feature of Apple's iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, which were announced alongside Apple Intelligence. Apple Intelligence is free for all users with supported devices.
YouTube channel: 20VC with Harry Stebbings
YouTube channel: Tom Bilyeu
Conversational AI platform for customer experience. Co-founded by Bret Taylor (ex-Facebook CTO, Salesforce co-CEO, Twitter chair, OpenAI board chair) and Clay Bavor. $350M at $10B.
NYU Stern professor, co-host of Pivot, founder of L2 (sold to Gartner). Author of The Four, Post Corona. Frequent commentator on tech monopolies and economic inequality.
YouTube channel: Matt Wolfe
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is the third oldest medical school in the United States. It provides patient care, medical education, and research training through its 15 clinical affiliates and research institutes, including Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston Children's Hospital, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Mount Auburn Hospital, McLean Hospital, Cambridge Health Alliance, The Baker Center for Children and Families, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and others.
Paul Edward Stamets is an American mycologist and entrepreneur who sells various mushroom products through his company. He is an author and an advocate of medicinal fungi and mycoremediation.
YouTube channel: TheAIGRID
Gong Cha is a tea drink franchise founded in 2006 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Quantum computing researcher, fault-tolerant architectures.
YouTube channel: Alex Kantrowitz
Physician focused on longevity. Host of The Drive podcast. Author of Outlive. Influential voice on healthspan, exercise, nutrition, and prevention.
Serverless compute for AI workloads. Founded by Erik Bernhardsson (ex-Spotify, built Luigi). $87M Series B, talks for Series C at $2.5B.
Stanford neuroscience professor, host of Huberman Lab podcast. Tools for sleep, performance, focus, and health. Massive following.
UT Austin theoretical computer scientist. Shtetl-Optimized blog is the quantum blog. Former OpenAI alignment researcher.
Co-founder of FriendFeed, former Salesforce co-CEO, AI and tech leader. In Scoble's early tech and modern AI rosters.
YouTube channel: Tiago Forte
Dow Jones is a combination of the names of business partners Charles Dow and Edward Jones.
Gemini is a family of multimodal large language models (LLMs) developed by Google DeepMind, and the successor to LaMDA and PaLM 2. Comprising Gemini Pro, Gemini Deep Think, Gemini Flash, and Gemini Flash Lite, it was announced on December 6, 2023. It powers the chatbot of the same name.
Famous VC in tech industry. Invested in Twitter. Featured in Scoble's top tech bloggers and SUL alternative lists.
YouTube channel: Bankless
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI. It was released in November 2022. It uses large language models—specifically generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs)—to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts. It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, an ongoing period marked by rapid investment and public attention toward the field of artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI operates the service on a freemium model. Users can interact with ChatGPT through text, audio, and image prompts.
YouTube channel: Sequoia Capital
Neuroscientist, philosopher, host of Making Sense podcast. Founder of the Waking Up meditation app. Writes on AI risk, free will, consciousness.
Hires three people to help tweet and has the most organically-grown Twitter followers Scoble knows of. In Scoble roster.
Production inference platform for open-source models. $250M Series C. Founded by ex-Meta AI infra team.
Frank's RedHot is a hot sauce made from a variety of cayenne peppers, produced by McCormick & Company. The Original blend ranks low on the Scoville scale, with 450 SHUs, while even the XTRA Hot variety only measures 2,000 SHUs, which is lower than Tabasco, Cholula Hot Sauce, and Tapatío, and only slightly hotter than Sriracha.
Guy who started Blogger and Twitter. Listed in Scoble's recommended Twitter users not on SUL but worth following.
Ezra Klein is an American political commentator and journalist. He has been a New York Times columnist since 2021 and is the host of The Ezra Klein Show podcast. He is a co-founder of Vox and was formerly the website's editor-at-large. He has held editorial positions at The Washington Post and The American Prospect and was a regular contributor to Bloomberg News and MSNBC. Klein has written two books, both published by Simon & Schuster: Why We're Polarized in January 2020, and Abundance, cowritten with Derek Thompson, in March 2025.
Scion Asset Management, LLC is an American hedge fund headquartered in California, founded by Michael Burry. It is best known for profiting from the subprime mortgage crisis, as well as paving the way for the GameStop short squeeze.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking institution headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is the largest bank in the United States, and the world's largest bank by market capitalization as of 2025. As the largest of the Big Four banks in America, the firm is considered systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. Its size and scale have often led to enhanced regulatory oversight as well as the development of an internal "Fortress Balance Sheet". The firm has had its global headquarters on 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan since 2025.
YouTube channel: AI Jason
Google Brain was a deep learning artificial intelligence research team that served as the sole AI branch of Google before being incorporated under the newer umbrella of Google AI, a research division at Google dedicated to artificial intelligence. Formed in 2011, it combined open-ended machine learning research with information systems and large-scale computing resources. It created tools such as TensorFlow, which allow neural networks to be used by the public, and multiple internal AI research projects, and aimed to create research opportunities in machine learning and natural language processing. It was merged into former Google sister company DeepMind to form Google DeepMind in April 2023.
YouTube channel: This Week in Startups
Tech thinker, investor, and commentator on crypto, AI, and spatial tech. Featured across Scoble's frontier tech lists.
Oxford University. Defined the universal quantum Turing machine (1985). Argued that the Church-Turing thesis must be reformulated in quantum-physical terms. The intellectual founder of quantum computation.
YouTube channel: The Diary Of A CEO
General Catalyst (GC) is an American venture capital firm headquarted in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 2000, it invests across seed, venture, and growth stages and manages more than US$43 billion in assets as of December 2024. The firm has invested in more than 800 companies. Its portfolio includes Airbnb, Stripe, Snap, Canva, HubSpot, Anduril, Mistral, and Helsing.
UCSB physicist who led Google's quantum supremacy paper (Sycamore, 2019). Now CTO at Silicon Quantum Computing (Australia). One of the actual inventors of superconducting qubits at scale.
Runs the D Conference with Walt Mossberg and generally beats Scoble to all the good stories. Listed in top tech roster.
AI researcher at MIT and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast with in-depth interviews of top minds in AI, science, and technology. Focuses on autonomous vehicles, human-AI interaction, and robotics.
Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day, but differing from it because it does not involve the original creation of statehood. It commemorates the end of an occupation or the fall of a regime or the liberation from both a foreign occupation and a collaborationist regime.
UC Berkeley professor, director at BAIR lab, and co-founder of Covariant. Pioneer in deep reinforcement learning for robotics, enabling robots to learn complex manipulation tasks from demonstrations and simulation.
YouTube channel: 3Blue1Brown
Mustafa Suleyman is a British artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company which was acquired by Google. After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company, in 2022.
An American national security policy, homeland security is "the national effort to ensure a homeland that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards where American interests, aspirations, and ways of life can thrive" to the "national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce the vulnerability of the U.S. to terrorism, and minimize the damage from attacks that do occur." According to an official work published by the Congressional Research Service in 2013, the "Homeland security" term's definition has varied over time.
AI notetaker for meetings, expanding to enterprise AI app. Founded by Chris Pedregal, Sam Stephenson. $125M Series C March 2026 at $1.5B.
University of Innsbruck. Theoretical physicist. Co-invented (with Cirac) the original 1995 trapped-ion quantum computer proposal that launched the modality. Also co-developer of Rydberg-blockade gates for neutral atoms.
CPO of Anthropic. Took over product leadership in early 2026 after Mike Krieger moved to Anthropic Labs.
Runs This Week in Tech, Scoble's favorite tech podcast. Included in Scoble's top tech bloggers and influencers list.
YouTube channel: YC Root Access
visionOS is an extended reality operating system derived primarily from iPadOS and its core frameworks, and MR-specific frameworks for foveated rendering and real-time interaction. It was developed by Apple exclusively for its Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset. It was unveiled on June 5, 2023, at Apple's WWDC23 event alongside the reveal of the Apple Vision Pro. The software released on February 2, 2024, shipping with the Apple Vision Pro.
YouTube channel: Traction
Founder of Farnam Street and host of The Knowledge Project podcast. Author of Clear Thinking. Mental models, decision making, deep interviews.
YouTube channel: Asianometry
YouTube channel: a16z
YouTube channel: All-In Podcast
Sebastian Christopher Peter Mallaby is an English journalist and author, Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and contributing columnist at The Washington Post. Formerly, he was a contributing editor for the Financial Times and a columnist and editorial board member at The Washington Post.
Former CTO of OpenAI. Key AI leader Scoble tracks in his AI founders and influencers lists.
Take Care is the second studio album by the Canadian rapper Drake. It was released on November 15, 2011, by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records and Republic Records. The album features guest appearances from the Weeknd, Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, Birdman, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Stevie Wonder, Lil Wayne, and André 3000. In addition to primary production from Drake and 40, further contributors include T-Minus, Chantal Kreviazuk, Boi-1da, Illangelo, Jamie xx, Supa Dups, Just Blaze, Chase N. Cashe, and Doc McKinney.
University of Maryland. Theoretical condensed matter / Majorana theorist. Major contributor to the Majorana zero mode framework that underpins Microsoft's topological qubit program.
Co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. Formerly Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Co-author of the seminal AlexNet paper. Possibly the most consequential ML researcher alive.
Everyone knows him in the social media world. Scoble listed him prominently in his top tech blogger and FriendFeed/social media roster.
Quantum computing researcher, Q-CTRL. Focus on quantum control and machine learning for quantum systems.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American businessman and programmer who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms. He serves as its chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and controlling shareholder.
ETH Zurich. Quantum information theory, foundations of quantum mechanics, quantum cryptography security proofs. Best known for proving the security of quantum key distribution protocols.
YouTube channel: Bg2 Pod
Midas was a king of Phrygia with whom many myths became associated, as well as two later members of the Phrygian royal house.
CarPlay is an Apple standard that enables a car radio or automotive head unit to be a display and controller for an iOS device. It is available on iPhone 5 and later models running iOS 7.1 or later.
TikTok Shop is an e-commerce feature of the video hosting service TikTok. Officially launched in September 2023, the feature enables users interested in starting a business and generating income to upload their curated products on TikTok for others to discover and purchase. Daily sales averaged approximately US$7 million in October 2023.
Quantinuum chief architect. Foundational work on ZX-calculus for quantum circuit reasoning. Co-developer of TKET, one of the most widely used quantum compilers.
University of Washington / formerly Niels Bohr Institute / Microsoft Station Q. Experimental condensed matter physicist working on Majorana zero modes. Long-time leader of the topological qubit experimental effort.
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Leads China's national quantum effort. Built the Micius satellite (2016 — first satellite-based quantum key distribution). Co-led the Jiuzhang photonic quantum advantage demonstration (2020).
Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley.
Brought us XML-RPC, RSS, and was the father of blogging in Scoble's view. Key figure in Scoble's top tech bloggers roster.
IonQ co-founder, Duke University. Trapped-ion quantum computing pioneer. Demonstrated the first quantum logic gate between two atoms in 1995 (with David Wineland). One of the originators of the modular ion-trap architecture.
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about 2,150,000 km2 (830,000 sq mi), making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the largest in the Middle East, and the twelfth-largest in the world. It is bordered by the Red Sea to the west; Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait to the north; the Persian Gulf, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to the east; Oman to the southeast; and Yemen to the south. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northwest separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt and Israel. Saudi Arabia is the only country with a coastline along both the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf, and most of its terrain consists of arid desert, lowland, steppe, and mo
Caltech. Neutral atom arrays with Rydberg gates. Likely path to 10K+ qubit machines. One of the technical leaders making neutral atoms a credible alternative to superconducting and trapped ion.
IBM Research. Co-invented zero-noise extrapolation, the leading error mitigation technique making near-term (NISQ) quantum hardware useful before full fault tolerance.
Princeton University. Neutral atom arrays with strontium and ytterbium. Leading work on optical-clock atoms as qubits — a route to qubits with seconds-long coherence times.
TU Delft / QuTech. Leads the European quantum internet initiative. Invented protocols for entanglement distribution over quantum networks. Co-author of the "stages of quantum internet development" roadmap.
ETH Zurich. Computational chemistry at the quantum/classical interface. Serious quantum chemistry methods for catalysis, materials, and molecular simulation. The "real chemist's chemist" in quantum.
Quantum error correction and architecture researcher.
UNSW Sydney physicist. Founder of Silicon Quantum Computing. Pioneer of atomic-precision silicon qubits. 2018 Australian of the Year.
Stanley Allen McChrystal is a retired United States Army general best known for his command of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) from 2003 to 2008 during which his organization was credited with the elimination of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. His final assignment was as Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, United States Forces – Afghanistan (USFOR-A). He previously served as Director, Joint Staff from August 2008 to June 2009. McChrystal received criticism for his alleged role in the cover-up of the Pat Tillman friendly fire incident. McChrystal was reportedly known for saying what other military leaders were thinking but were afraid to say; this was one of the reasons cited for his appointment to lead all forces in Afghanistan
Forschungszentrum Jülich / RWTH Aachen. Quantum error correction theory and complexity theory. Major contributor to the surface code and to the theoretical foundations of fault tolerance.
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Munich. Co-inventor (with Zoller) of the trapped-ion quantum computer proposal. Tensor network methods. One of the most-cited theorists in quantum information.
Yale University. Theoretical physicist behind circuit QED with Schoelkopf and Devoret. Authored the canonical introduction to circuit QED. Quantum many-body physics.
Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions of the legend, he is depicted as being of noble birth, and in modern retellings he is sometimes depicted as having fought in the Crusades before returning to England to find his lands taken by the Sheriff of Nottingham. In the oldest known versions, he is instead a member of the yeoman class. He is traditionally depicted dressed in Lincoln green. Today, he is most closely associated with his stance of "robbing the rich to give to the poor".
Atom Computing CEO and founder. Built the first 1000+ qubit neutral-atom quantum computer (2023). Pursuing optical-clock-style atom arrays as a route to fault-tolerant quantum computing.
ETH Zurich. Major contributor to circuit QED experimental work. Built ETH's superconducting quantum processor program. First experimental observation of strong coupling in cQED.
Builder of Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer. Founded by Scott Wu, Walden Yan, Steven Hao. $400M at $10.2B valuation.
Institut d'Optique, France. Co-founder of Pasqal (the European neutral-atom quantum company). Pioneer of Rydberg-atom array experiments. One of the architects of the neutral-atom approach to large-scale quantum.
University of Maryland. Co-invented the stabilizer formalism (1996) — the foundation of every quantum error correction code in use today. Author of the canonical PhD thesis on stabilizer codes.
Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, General Manager of Microsoft Quantum software. Leads Microsoft's Q# language, quantum compiler, and quantum algorithm development. Major contributor to fault-tolerant quantum compilation.
IonQ CEO. Ex-Amazon Prime engineering. Productized trapped-ion quantum computing into rack-mountable commercial systems. First quantum company to IPO via SPAC (2021).
Legendary designer, involved in spatial and Apple tech. Scoble tracks in spatial computing and Vision Pro related discussions.
Quantinuum CEO. Founded Cambridge Quantum Computing in 2014, merged with Honeywell Quantum Solutions in 2021 to form Quantinuum. Built the first integrated quantum software/hardware stack.
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Computational chemistry at the quantum-classical boundary. Bridges abstract quantum algorithms to actual HPC workloads in chemistry and materials science.
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Co-founder of Infleqtion (formerly ColdQuanta). One of the early proponents of Rydberg-blockade quantum gates in neutral atom arrays.
IBM Research. Co-invented quantum teleportation (1993), the BB84 quantum key distribution protocol (1984, with Brassard), and laid the foundations of quantum information theory. Possibly the most-cited author in the field.
University of Toronto. Quantum algorithms for machine learning, Hamiltonian simulation, and quantum data analysis. Major contributor to quantum linear algebra methods.
Google Quantum AI, MIT (emeritus). Co-invented the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA, 2014) — the most studied near-term quantum optimization algorithm.
TU Delft / QuTech. Pioneer of silicon spin qubits and the original NMR Shor's algorithm demonstration (2001, IBM). One of the leading voices for silicon as a route to scalable quantum hardware.
Founder of Rigetti Computing (NASDAQ: RGTI). Built one of the first full-stack superconducting quantum cloud services. Pioneered hybrid quantum-classical workflow integration into HPC environments.
RIKEN R-CCS Director, leads Fugaku supercomputer (#1 worldwide 2020-2022). Driving Japan's national hybrid quantum-HPC integration program. Architect of the quantum-classical co-design strategy at Japanese scale.
Bell Labs / IIT. Invented Grover's algorithm (1996) — quadratic speedup for unstructured search. The second pillar of quantum algorithms after Shor.
USTC. Co-led the Jiuzhang photonic quantum computing demonstrations claiming quantum advantage on Gaussian boson sampling (2020-2022). Most prominent Chinese photonic quantum hardware leader.
IBM Director of Quantum Hardware. Built the first cloud-accessible quantum processor (IBM Quantum Experience, 2016). Co-invented the cross-resonance gate that powers IBM's superconducting architecture.
MIT EECS, MIT Lincoln Lab. Director of MIT Center for Quantum Engineering. Superconducting qubit hardware + materials. One of the most cited working experimentalists on coherence-limit improvements.
Caltech. Theoretical condensed matter, Majorana fermions. Major contributor to topological quantum computing theory. Reviews of Majorana-based qubit proposals.
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Quantum computing researcher, quantum compilers and microarchitecture.
TU Delft / QuTech. Performed the first loophole-free Bell test (2015) using NV centers in diamond — the experiment that closed the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen debate. Diamond NV-center quantum networks.
MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. Co-invented the HHL algorithm (Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd, 2009) for quantum linear systems. One of the leading voices on the limits of quantum machine learning speedups.
Former Google executive, now investor. Listed in Scoble's recommended tech influencers and SUL alternative.
Microsoft, Distinguished Engineer and head of Microsoft Quantum hardware. Leading the topological qubit program (Majorana zero modes). Co-author of the 2025 "Majorana 1" announcement claiming the first topological qubit.
University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing. Author of "The Theory of Quantum Information" — the canonical textbook on quantum information theory. Quantum complexity theory.
University of Innsbruck. Trapped-ion quantum computing pioneer. Co-founder of Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT). His group performed many of the foundational trapped-ion quantum logic demonstrations.
IBM Research, quantum computing. Leads gate calibration and benchmarking work that has driven IBM's steady reduction in error rates. Co-author on the randomized benchmarking protocols used industry-wide.
Quantum computing researcher. Lead author on heterogeneous QC architecture work, Q-CTRL.
QuantWare CEO and co-founder. Building the "TSMC of qubits" — a Dutch superconducting qubit foundry selling chips to other quantum companies. Spinout from QuTech / TU Delft.
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Quantum computing researcher at Q-CTRL, focus on control systems and error mitigation.
Yale University. Co-inventor of circuit QED. Pioneer of mesoscopic superconducting devices. Member of the National Academy of Sciences. Co-founder of Quantum Circuits Inc.
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