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This $6B Industry Will Change Everything: Jim Rabeau Breaks Down Quantum Technology
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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "This $6B Industry Will Change Everything: Jim Rabeau Breaks Down Quantum Technology", an episode of Tommy Mello published December 19, 2025 (33 min, about 5,743 words). It mentions 6 people, works and ideas, including Detect, Quantum Technology, AC/DC, Jim Rabau, A New Earth.
What this episode is about
The discussion focuses on the transformative potential of quantum technology, highlighting its ability to revolutionize various industries, including drug discovery and supply chain logistics, by solving complex problems in seconds. Dr. Jim Rabeau, an expert in quantum technology, explores how innovations like quantum magnetometers can bridge the gap between theoretical science and practical applications, paving the way for major advancements and economic growth in the field.
Key takeaways
- Imagine a world where we navigate like turtles—seeing magnetic fields opens paths to new exploration.
- Quantum tech could revolutionize logistics; what takes years today could be done in mere seconds tomorrow.
- From drug discovery to finance, quantum computing promises to solve challenges we've yet to fathom.
- If we could sense magnetic fields, we'd tap into secrets of nature that our eyes can't reveal!
- Jim Rabau's work transforms invisible forces into practical tools, bridging science and real-world applications.
Who speaks in this episode?
- Tommy Mello (Host) · 13 min speaking
- Dr. Jim Rabau (Guest) · 20 min speaking
What is discussed, and when
- – 5:00: Quantum Technology, Detect, Jim Rabau
- – 10:00: Detect
- – 15:00: Quantum Technology
- – 20:00: AC/DC, Detect
- – 25:00: Quantum Technology
- – 30:00: A New Earth, AC/DC, Never Split the Difference
- – 32:55: Quantum Technology
Notable quotes from "This $6B Industry Will Change Everything: Jim Rabeau Breaks Down Quantum Technology"
And how can we harness that? So that's kind of like the concept that how we're thinking about detect.
about Detect · atToday's guest is Dr. Jim Rabau, an international leader in quantum technology and innovation. We're making quantum mainstream by connecting it with these semiconductor superighway.
about Jim Rabau · atSo just as an example, I was exhausted yesterday at the end of the day, but my son and I went and saw AC/DC. I've never seen AC/DC before. They were here in Sydney and he's…
about AC/DC · atIs Echer Tol he wrote the power of now and he also then followed that up with a new earth and my mom gave it to me like 20 years ago or something and I think she I've got three…
about A New Earth · atWhat's the one by Never Split the Difference. Yeah. Yeah. which I've also heard about for a long time and I picked it up not long ago and I just it's pretty I you know great read.
about Never Split the Difference · at
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- Jim Rabau — Person · 1 mention · first at
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- A New Earth — Book · 1 mention · first at
- Never Split the Difference — Book · 1 mention · first at
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- Quantum Technology — Concept · 6 mentions · first at
Just calculate faster, they think in fundamentally new ways. That's the promise of the quantum technology industry, which is a billion-dollar industry projected to be valued in…
Full transcript with timestamps
what new opportunities can come about if we were able to, you know, open a the eyes and see magnetic fields rather than seeing light or what does that open up and how how can we harness that? So that's kind of like the concept that how we're thinking about detect. Imagine a world where computers don't just calculate faster, they think in fundamentally new ways. That's the promise of the quantum technology industry, which is a billion-dollar industry projected to be valued in the hundreds of billions by 2040. Why should you care? Because quantum technology could reshape the world. From drug discovery to financial markets, supply chain logistics to advanced materials, quantum tech promises tools that could solve massive optimization and simulation challenges in seconds.
Problems that would take today's computers millennia. This isn't sci-fi. The foundational science is already real with companies and governments pouring billions into research and development. This episode is going to be a little different than usual. We're diving into the world of quantum technology, which means we'll be tackling some complex ideas and using words like magnetometers and cubits. I promise you'll learn a lot. Today's guest is Dr. Jim Rabau, an international leader in quantum technology and innovation. We're making quantum mainstream by by connecting it with these semiconductor superighway.
With a PhD in physics and a career bridging deep science, entrepreneurship, and industry, Jim has spent decades turning breakthrough ideas into practical technology.
You bring in AI and quantum, there's a lot of consideration about what the impacts are going to be. He's the CEO and co-founder of Detect, an Australian startup that's revolutionizing navigation through quantum magnetometers, compact diamondbased sensors that bring quantum precision into the real world,
out of the lab into the commercial opportunities. Get ready. Today's conversation will teach you about the latest technology you won't want to miss out on. All right, guys. I'm really excited about today. Welcome back to the Mellow Millionaire. Today's guest is a world leader in quantum technology and innovation with a PhD in physics and a career bridging deep science entrepreneurship and industry. Jim has spent decades turning breakthrough ideas into practical technology. Jim, it's a pleasure to have you on today.
Nice to meet you, Tommy. Thanks for having me. So, let's just I I don't know if there's an easy way to explain what you do, but tell us a little bit about the journey, what you're doing today, and what you're excited about.
Okay. Well, um, let let me go back quite a quite a ways, uh, to the PhD. That's what really started things off in terms of the science and tech that I've been passionate about for about 25 years. Um, in my PhD, I grew diamond films in a lab. So, basically turning gas with carbon in it into thin layers of diamond. There's lots of interesting applications for that. Electronics, hard coatings on drill materials, blades, and so on. and thermal conductivity. But at that stage early 2000s, there was a lot of excitement and growth in the quantum especially quantum computing. So uh how can you use quantum objects, quantum particles to do really powerful computation. So that got me into applying, you know, the diamond materials to learning how you could use them in quantum technologies. The work I'm doing is more around sensing and magnetic field sensing. So there's all these things that we can kind of tap into uh either
developing technologies to measure or effect magnetic fields to do interesting things. But what's really fascinating to me is how, you know, we weren't designed and we didn't evolve to be able to see or measure magnetic fields as humans, but animals, some animals can do that, right? And and so birds have and turtles have this ability to navigate with magnetic fields. And the the turtle example is kind of the the most interesting to me. um you know a turtle hatches on on the shore somewhere and it's able to imprint this you know these magnetic features that I was talking about earlier under in the earth's crust like so not just saying okay here's north and south but rather they can imprint kind of this map of the where they're hashed and they go and they swim you know to the other side of the world and they're able to find their way back because of the ability to sense these fields um in the earth and find their way back
to you know roughly the the place where they were where they were hashed. It's not fully understood the physiological mechanisms that that make this work. But birds as well, they can, you know, navigate themselves uh in in uh you know, different migratory patterns, but they can orient themselves quite accurately to magnetic fields. And so the you know, it's it's just fascinating how if you if you think about um you know, the human body has has sensors, right? You can you can you can open your eyes and you see the world around you and and you see that because light is coming into our eyes. Now imagine you know what animals are doing or imagine being able to open some sensory mechanism and be able to see magnetic fields and what does that open up for us right I mean we know that animals have some way to do that essentially sense fields and they can navigate with this so this kind of this kind of concept
that that we're thinking about as saying well what does it open up what new opportunities can come about if we were able to, you know, open a, you know, the eyes and see magnetic fields rather than seeing light or what does that open up and how how can we harness that? So, that's kind of like the concept that how we're thinking about detect and and making our sensors small and deployable that we can start to see fields that we haven't seen before, whether that's in the human body, underground, um, for, you know, different applications.
So, basically the earth is a big magnet. It's got metallic material uh kind of spinning around and that creates a current and so we have this it's like a big magnet with a north and a south and that just is pervasive right like through this room right now there's magnetic fields traveling we can't see them and they're they're used in technology in many ways like a hard disk uses magnetic um signatures and sensors to to to save data I always had this entrepreneurial bent and uh decided to leave academics and I went I worked at Deote as a consultant and I just was moving around and in the business world and trying to to learn build networks that brings us to today where I'm now the CEO of a startup company called Detect we're developing a a magnetic field sensor that has a whole range of of possible applications in from navigation to mineral exploration to ical sensing.
Quantum mechanics, there's two kinds of descriptions of the world. There's classical mechanics. It describes the way the world that we can see around us, the way it works. So, so it's enabled us to, for example, build planes that fly because of, you know, the the forces at work. So, very uh functional, accurate at a at a macro at at a large scale. Over the last 100 plus years, we've started to understand things at the really, you know, the small scale like the scale of electrons, the scale of single particles of light. And it turns out so that's called that's the quantum world. So quantum mechanics and that things behave much differently at that scale, right? You can't predict as easily as you can like a tennis ball. So if you if you imagine shrinking a tennis ball to like you know the size of an electron which is incredibly small electrons behave in in different ways there's certain uh characteristics like
superp position and entanglement these behaviors if you know people have really started to think about them probably in the last 30 40 years about what could you do with these if you if you could harness them and that's what's led to things like quantum computing you can do you know uh really uh powerful full computation much better than in in you know just using zeros and ones like we do in our computers now. So so so that's one thing. Another thing that you can do is these are very fragile states of of matter or or light if you can tap into them you can use them as sensors. So now imagine being able to like you know look at them with a technology that we build around it and then each time a magnetic field changes really really small a really subtle change you can detect that. So quantum is just a kind of a a tool that enables us to tap into the world around us in ways that we haven't been able to
before. And that includes computing, sensing, communication. And so there's a those are the three sort of big pillars is this rigid crystal and structure that has these quantum objects nitrogen atoms trapped inside it. We can actually use that crystal as a sensor of magnetic fields again building you know electronics and optics around that. Right at the beginning of co 2020 got a a grant from the Australian Defense Force. We've designed and fabricated a a tiny silicon control chip much like what you get in your phone or computer that interfaces with our quantum chip. So we have two things. We have the quantum sensor and we have this semiconductor which is really mainstream very scalable. Putting those two tunings together now we have this technology that can can measure uh magnetic fields.
So you've got communication, navigation and detecting. Do you want to just give me a summary of each of those? How it works?
Here's how this works. Right now in the Ukraine, there's no satellite connection. Satellites are there, but they're being jammed. So in conflict zones anywhere really, the satellites become inaccessible. The same thing happens in a tunnel. When you're driving somewhere, you got your GPS going, you go into a tunnel, you you lose that line of sight. So suddenly you don't have accurate navigation. In fact, you don't have anything. It's just sort of guessing where you are. Underwater submarines, they don't have a line of sight to to satellites, so GPS doesn't work. So, so in these different scenarios, like whether you're underground or underwater or in a conflict zone where satellites are basically being knocked out, you can't navigate reliably with GPS. So, this is a pain in the butt when you're trying to navigate to, you know, a new restaurant or something in the city and you go in a tunnel and you get lost. when you're in
a conflict zone or when you're underwater with a big submarine, it's not just a pain in the butt, it's actually very problematic. So, there's this urgent kind of pressure right now or military globally to solve how do you navigate without GPS getting into how magnetic field sensing and the the tech that we're developing which is all about measuring magnetic fields. How does that come into it? Well, the Earth is just like this big spinning magnet. These are big strong fields. Now, what happens in underground where there's blobs of metallic objects and different things?
Basically, those field lines kind of get wavy and they move around like they they're there's there's texture to them. What that then looks like for us on the surface is that those wobbles and things, you know, around these objects underground create essentially a map, a magnetic field map. Now we have a way to sort of say, okay, here's here's the surface of the earth rather than thinking of a road map. Well, you've got this magnetic path that you can that you can follow because you know that the if you have a map of what those magnetic anomalies are. Uh you can use that to to locate yourself with a sensor on the grid if that makes sense. So um so essentially replacing a road map with a magnetic field map and then using a magnetic sensor kind of to track yourself around and that's a completely um independent of satellites. you can actually have something in your hand like like I'll just hold up my phone
here. It's like our our device currently is around this size, you know, bit a bit thicker, but it measures a magnetic field. So, if I have a map in my hand on one side and and my sensor here and I can link it to the map, you can then navigate without GPS. And that's hugely valuable, especially in the in the military context. It it makes them independent of satellites. So there's there's a a real security aspect there that that they're drawing for.
It sounds groundbreaking. I mean, it sounds like if you how far along are you as far as dependability is like what phase are you in?
There's been demonstrations done by others other technologies to demonstrate that you can get GPS level uh precision with magnetic field sensing, quantum magnetic field sensing specifically. where we're at as a companies, we've kind of taken, you know, a slightly longer path and really focused on the hardware and the scalability. So, and that's where semiconductors come in. So our our effort has been on designing and testing a a chip millimeter scale chip that we interface with that we connect with the diamond and that is solving one of the biggest challenges for all of quantum technology and that's scalability like how do you make a lot of these things at a reasonable price point and because quantum tech is so complex and you know sophisticated in terms of the the the technologies that you need to integrate together. This is a big kind of roadblock. The next steps over the next 12 months and what we're
raising this uh seat funding round for right now is um is to really focus on testing it out in the field.
Yeah, I'm very very interested in that because I'm just thinking about like as you know Venezuela has some of the most resources around and uh you're basically building kind of a a treasure finder in a lot of ways. It's like we're moving the base technology, technological capability in certain areas beyond what we've ever been able to do before. And and when you do that, you're going to discover new things. You're going to enable new things. And this is why, you know, in the commercial world, these new valuable things are starting to be emerge and people want to get on board and and so that's why, you know, 20 years ago, investors wouldn't really have looked at too closely at at quantum tech, but now it's becoming more tangible and and real. You know, magnets seem to be a hot topic. I know that China has kind of uh really reigned in a lot of the the magnetic development. Let me uh let me ask you a few repeat
questions I ask and uh I'm just curious if you could go back and talk to yourself in your early 20s, what piece of advice would you give yourself?
That's that's a really great question. Um in my early 20s, and this is something I'm still learning, is um or you're not alone in in making mistakes. The idea of especially being a CEO of a startup, it can be kind of isolating, right? and you and you're going to screw up. You're internalizing that and saying, "I failed at this." And, you know, that can really drag you down. But, um, I think it's really important to actually embrace it and understand that you're not the only one who's who's who's gone through and hit walls and made a mess of things. But I'm certainly still learning. The older you get, the more you kind of are aware of aware of yourself, I suppose. I was going to ask you, so as far as what you're working on today, what does success look like? What does that mean? If you were to look back in 30 years, you'd say, "That's that's what I I made it. That was it."
You know, one answer is um that I exit or we list on the stock exchange or I exit, somebody acquires a company and we make 100 million. for for the success of the company. I would love to what I want to get to is that our device, our technology is taken up in real applications. Broadly, we want to make a a magnetic field sensor that's going to open up something that we're calling magnetic field intelligence. So, this like ubiquitous deployment of sensors that can tap into information all around us because magnetic fields are all around us, right? So, so that's for the company. That's what I want to get to for Jim. The answer for what does success look like for Jim? I think about this every single day. I've got I've got three kids. They're they're in their 20s. Got parents in Canada. I want to see them at Christmas time. Siblings over there as well. It's about looking back and saying, I I made the right
decisions when it mattered. I chose the right things that really matter. and figuring out what those are is is actually a little bit more challenging. But not choosing to forego, you know, the things that are important like my kids and family and so on because of the success of detect, you know, and I and I think again as as you get older and more self-aware, I I think that's probably an easier an easier judgment call to make. But I I certainly don't want to end up in 30 years saying, "Damn, you know, I wasted 15 of those years um not having the time that I really would have loved to have with the kids." Um so that that's how that's how I would answer that, Tommy. I think it's it's um having that balance cuz in order to be successful, you do have to forego some things. It's just where's that line? And so just as an example, I was exhausted yesterday at the end of the day, but um my son and I went and saw AC/DC. I've
never seen AC/DC before. They were here in Sydney and he's he's 21 and blown away. We went and I, you know, I was I was kind of like, h gez, I wish I had the night in. But but AC/DC and my son, you know, we're sitting there taking this in and I don't think we'll ever see them again. and and he was videoing, you know, the different songs that we've been listening to for the last 15 years together. And it was just the best the best thing. And I'm like, I'm I'm so glad this happened.
I love the answer. And and you're right, there's going to be sacrifices. The best advice I ever got was be where your feet are, be allin. And it's hard for entrepreneurs to not be thinking about what we're excited about, even though we're all excited about our families. It's just there's so much work to be done, but then all of a sudden a year goes by and then a decade goes by. There's just, you're right, there's a weird balance and it's offbalance and I think that's okay. What do you think um what are your biggest challenges?
I think that's the number one um challenge in in building the company is putting the required time and effort and diligence into recruiting the best people but also having the culture defining and having the culture that enables you to to be a magnet for for great talent. I was fortunate very early on in um you know recruiting I got my COO on board and she's just been phenomenal at kind of doing all the things that that I'm not good at, you know, where I'm kind of out in this direction and high level. She's very much operational and structure and has just been ticking the box of all the different things that we need to to to build to have a strong foundation of company and then become that magnet.
And then, you know, learning this very early on and it's really hard is like literally really early on when you're sort of a handful of people. Um recognizing when you didn't hire the right person and so what do what do you do with that and how do you address it? and being a leader and and taking a hard decision um for the good of the company. Like so there's like you know hiring the best and then making sure that you don't hold on too long to somebody who you realize is not a fit.
A B player is the worst employee because they're never going to take you to where you need to go, but they just do enough to kind of stay alive. And uh but A players don't like B players and they're going to you're going to get worse performance out of the A players by keeping a B player. But B players, they kind of are incognito. You don't really see it and it's really hard to see it. But you can almost tell by the way the A players are performing that they're holding them back. One of the questions is quantum sensing market is projected to be a $6 billion industry by 2040. Uh, which industries do you believe will be impacted first?
I I think that navigation is is probably the the the earliest one where we're seeing the most traction and and mining. So So those two things kind of go hand in hand in enhancing our ability to find critical minerals underground. I think as you as we push the boundaries out further, the technology gets more advanced. I I think I'm I'm really really excited and I think it's a huge you know beyond those numbers uh huge market opportunity and huge benefit potential is the medical diagnostics space I mean the human body has so much electrical magnetic information signatures that that well like the heart beat do an ECG and you can learn a lot about how the heart is uh what the heart rhythm is and you can diagnose things MRI magnetic resonance imaging is I mean you might have even had one on your ankle I don't know but so that enables you to see the density and the you know changes and injuries in in the human
body that you can't measure with X-ray there's so much information there and and if we can push push the boundary of what you can measure a little bit further and then it opens up new information new you know more rapid diagnosis and so on so that's something that I'm also really excited about it.
What are your thoughts? You know, there's I've talked to a lot of people in the past that are just layers ahead of my IQ, but I I feel like I' I'm just curious your your your take on this because there's EQ, which is emotional intelligence, and then there's just like photographic memories and people that just understand the deepest comprehension of certain things. I've worked with a lot of people who, you know, like my my IQ is not near the level of a lot of people that I've worked with over the years who are, you know, quantum or physicists or scientists who who are really understand deeply understand things and can see things in numbers or in in data and interpret it um in ways that like I I could never get to with the you know the cases is that the EQ um broadly defined is is um more lacking like you know it's communication how do you like communicating a hard topic right that might be really challenging for somebody
with that very narrow deep IQ what I'm trying to do is when you're trying to bridge both right like you're trying to bridge something that is deep quantum or deep technology which just called deep tech with the EQ requirements of running a company and building that team that we were talking about and becoming a magnet and having the culture.
What's one thing you wish more people understood about quantum technology? Quantum is a fundamental way that the world works, right? It's like it describes how the world works. So, it's it's fundamental. We're tapping into that in ways that enable us to do things that we haven't ever been able to do before. For example, like sensing something that's that you can't sense with normal sensor. How is AI going to affect your research going forward?
AI is amazing. Like I just I can't believe how fast things have moved there. Um so we're using it in in the company to help whether it's understanding um or or you know accessing a a wider range of perspectives on you know a certain technology problem or you know how do we communicate something better. Um, in terms of like our our sensors and and the the types of data that we're going to be pulling in, we'll certainly be looking at using AI to interpret that and and enhance like what what the overall solution to a customer might be. So, so I think for us it's like trying to leverage it as much as possible in both in the business side but also in the tech tech side. The world could be so small if you just think about money and business and and corporate development and just the things that that it you know it's just expand your horizon. And this was so fun to just learn about what's possible and
what intrigues guys like you because it's just the world's going to be changing so much quicker. I mean 3D printing and and what we're explor exploration like there's nothing more. We're building a place in San Point, Idaho, which is really far north near Canada. And uh just looking at space and just thinking like beyond ourselves, do you ever just I don't know what the I didn't really do any stargazing in Australia when I was there, but do you ever just look at places and you're like, "Wow, we're just we're at the the cusp of just learning so much more." I
I had the same literally the same thought. We we at this AC/DC concert yesterday and I was thinking, you know, like I've got all these I had a lot on my mind. I'm thinking about solving, you know, negotiations and all this. And we we were sat up on like the second tierish, so looking out over all the people on the on the floor and and in the stands and and I was I just almost had that same kind of stargazing moment but in reverse where you're looking at all these individual humans down there and and it's kind of the like all those people having different perspectives on the world and and it also gives you the similar view of like in some ways like how insignificant your little world is, but yet so important to yourself. I love I love that that that visual of of the Ant-Man shrinking down, you know, into this, you know, imaginary kind of like universe of of things. I love that stuff.
You know, I'm I'm very cautiously optimistic about AI and I'm not like the end of time or anything, but uh it's definitely I'm ready for it and I accept change and I'm more of a a first implement. like I love to go deep into things and like not be afraid. But yeah, I just there's so much to think about and uh you know unfortunately and fortunately I've been very successful with business but there's so much more. So let me ask you this and we'll wrap up here. Um what is a book that just means a lot to you? I'll tell I'll tell you I'll tell you the book I'll tell you the book that that I really found impactful um is Echer Tol um he wrote the power of now and he also then followed that up with a new earth and my mom gave it to me like 20 years ago or something and I I think she I've got three brothers and two sisters and I think she gave all of us a copy of that book, A New Earth. It's more about like
consciousness and and and humans and being in the present, right? Like like some really powerful kind of like ways to approach being in the present. And I just found it especially sort of through the time in my, you know, in my 30s where, you know, there's challenging stuff. you're raising kids and you're you're trying to do your career and and I I I just found it really powerful to help me and I still I still flip go back and read bits of that bits of that book. What's the one by um Never Split the Difference. Yeah. Yeah. which which I've also heard about for a long time and I and I picked it up not long ago and I just it's pretty I you know great read that one I did read end to end and um you know you probably need to read that several times to really embed all the all the components but yeah that was really really interesting really um useful as well
yeah if you ever want to meet Chris I've got to know him really well he's out in Vegas he just was with me at my last event so he's a he's a fun guy awesome and then we talked about a lot of cool stuff. I never thought I'd be as into uh electromagnetic sensitivity, but uh we'll uh we'll let you close us out on anything you want to to wrap us up here, brother.
Well, I just want to say Tommy, it's awesome to talk to you. Like, um I I admire that you've you know, like I said, pushing the boundaries and and diving into something like this. And I and I think we're at this exciting time of of quantum technology that is kind of like, you know, it's been in in the lab and and a research thing for many many years and we're really at this precipice of saying, okay, what can this really do in the world around us and and uh so I'm I'm I was excited to share that with you and uh thanks for for contacting me and uh and setting this up.
Yeah, I definitely want to stay in communication. And I I want to see how this all comes together and and I'll be praying for you. I mean, look, it sounds like you got a good grasp of everything. You got a strong team, but I think you're in the beginning stages of something that's going to be super fun. And uh you know, when you look back, it's it's you're you're building I always like to say like I'm fascinated with Back to the Future. I have a Delorean uh that's made of like Back to the Future, too. And you're like, where you're going, there are no roads because you're building your own roads. So, it's going to be awesome.
I love that. Oh, Delorean, man. Like that. That's I think if you if you ask me that success question again, I would love a Delorean. That I you know, if you get out to Phoenix, come visit. I'd love to have you out here. And uh you're more than welcome anytime. And uh I'd love to take you for a ride. I'm getting an electrical electric motor put in it just because those motors weren't super reliable. So now this thing will do 0 to 88 in about 6.8 seconds. Amazing. That's so good. Uh, no, I I definitely will keep in touch and yeah, if I'm ever in the neighborhood, I'll uh I'll ping you. Um, and yeah, thanks again.
Appreciate the chat. This is a great podcast. Thanks for the listeners for listening. Hopefully, you got something out of this and I hope you guys are having a great day. Thanks so much for listening to this episode. Like always, we're going to close it out with the Tommy truth, which is a little slice of wisdom from me to you that can help guide you in whatever you're striving towards right now. Do you know less than 5% of businesses ever cross $1 million in annual revenue? Your chances are one in 20. And the reason why is most people underestimate what they could do in 5 years and overestimate what they could do in a year and they give up. There's a great book about this called 3 ft from goal.
And the best answer I could give to you is don't give up. Make a plan, reverse engineer it, and stay the course. Go for the long term. Start to learn how to build teams and not be so reliant on yourself. Businesses that track key performance indicators grow 60% faster than those that don't. When you know the score, it's a lot easier to win the game. And that's it, guys. We'll talk to you next week.
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The discussion focuses on the transformative potential of quantum technology, highlighting its ability to revolutionize various industries, including drug discovery and supply chain logistics, by solving complex problems in seconds. Dr. Jim Rabeau, an expert in quantum technology, explores how innovations like quantum magnetometers can bridge the gap between theoretical science and practical…
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