Investing in the Quantum Frontier and the Road to Fault Tolerance with Barak Bussel

What does it take to invest in a quantum hardware company that has deliberately chosen not to pursue an intermediate product? Sebastian is joined by Barak Bussel – physicist, entrepreneur-turned-VC, co-founder of 7i Capital, and Board Chair of UCLA’s Center for Quantum Science and Engineering – operates at the intersection of frontier investing, scientific innovation, and ecosystem building. In this conversation, he explains how he underwrites the path to fault-tolerant quantum computing, what recent breakthroughs from Oratomic and Google Quantum AI suggest about the timeline to useful machines and the growing convergence of quantum and AI, and why the Bell Labs model may offer the best blueprint for building the next generation of science-driven technology ecosystems.