Geordie Rose's Digital Pyramid

Geordie was the founder (1999), CEO (1999 -2003) and then CTO (2004-2016) of D -Wave, and was the co-founder and CEO (2014-2018) of Kindred. Kindred is an AGI company whose mission is to build machines with human-like intelligence. D‐Wave designs and builds a number of complex technologies, and integrates them to create the world's first quantum computers. The company's customers include Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos and US government agencies, and investors include DFJ (Steve Jurvetson has been on the Board since 2003), Goldman Sachs, Jeff Bezos and In Q Tel. In 2012 and 2016 IEEE Spectrum ranked the company #4 in the world in'patent power' for computer systems companies, behind only IBM, HP and Lenovo.