At Wall Street he had a successful investment career. As a angel investor he gained experience in evaluating and investing in startups, one of them was Amazon.com. But Bob Gelfond has always been passionate about science and technology. He was also fascinated by the possibilities of quantum computing, so he started to research in which companies he could invest. He soon found out that there wasn’t really any startup around that he could invest in. But yet his keen business sense told him that this is a tremendous opportunity, so he gave it a shot and decided to start his own company – MaqiQ Technologies. A company focused on quantum information systems. He started with building an expert team around quantum computing, that was back in 1999.

I had a chance to talk to Bob and get his take on what we can expect in the future.

At what point did you realize that there might be enough demand or a big enough market to start a company?
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