Chris Sklarin focuses on quantum computing as something that works alongside classical AI and computing systems rather than replacing it, and he pays more attention to companies with real products and customers than to flashy technical milestones, judging quantum's progress more like earlier waves of nanotechnology that built up through steady, practical steps. His background as an MIT-trained engineer who worked in software and sales engineering shapes how he evaluates deals, and he leans on strong co-investors and his network of founders and CEOs—including people connected to past ventures like Rigetti—rather than relying only on his own read of the science.