“I've been short them. Unfortunately, we lost millions of dollars shorting quantum computing companies, but I told my wife that we gained billions in insight.”

Martin Shkreli · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Martin Shkreli: Big Pharma's Blind Spot, Betting Against Quantum & What Prison Taught Him

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shorted quantum computing companies

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