Peter Barrett

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  Peter Barrett Keynote | Semiconductor Australia 2024

  July 23, 2026 · 📺 Semiconductor Australia | Ruthless Productions

  Peter Barrett, founder of Playground Global, delivers a keynote at Semiconductor Australia 2024, sharing insights on deep-tech company building, venture capital, semiconductor innovation and the role of long-term investment in scaling breakthrough technologies. His keynote explores the relationship between frontier technology, patient capital and commercialisation, and what it takes to build globally significant companies in sectors such as semiconductors, AI, quantum, robotics and advanced hardware. Recorded as part of Semiconductor Australia 2024, Australia’s premier investor and sector co…

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  What's Real And What's Garbage In Tech - EP 56 Peter Barrett

  February 11, 2026 · 📺 Core Memory Podcast

  Peter Barrett got a visit from the NSA at 19 after writing some encryption software that caught their attention. And that was just the warmup. The Playground Global GP helped build the original WebTV browser, spent 13 years as a distinguished engineer at Microsoft working alongside Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and gave Elon Musk his first Silicon Valley tech job at Rocket Science Games in the early '90s. Now he runs one of the few VC firms where partners actually understand the physics of what they're funding, with quantum computers, superconducting logic, and programmable mRNA therapeutics…

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  Inside the $4.5B Startup Building Brain-Inspired Chips for AI

  February 07, 2026 · 📺 Sourcery with Molly O'Shea

  Unconventional AI is building a new computational substrate designed for biology-scale efficiency — running neural networks directly on the nonlinear physics of silicon instead of simulating them through traditional digital abstractions. Recorded at Playground Global in Palo Alto and hosted by Peter Barrett, General Partner, this Sourcery conversation features: Naveen Rao — CEO & Co-Founder, Unconventional AI (founder of Nervana, acquired by Intel for $400M+, and MosaicML, acquired by Databricks for $1.3B; former Chief AI Officer at Databricks) Konstantine Buhler — Partner at Sequoia Capital…

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  Why (Psi)Quantum? - From discovery to design - Peter Barrett

  August 06, 2025 · 📺 PsiQuantum

  Playground Global General Partner and PsiQuantum Board Member Peter Barrett on the pitch in 2015 and what’s happened since in the first episode of the Why (Psi)Quantum? series.

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  Fireside Chat: Pete Shadbolt and Peter Barrett

  August 06, 2025 · 📺 Playground Global

  Pete Shadbolt, co-founder and chief scientific officer of PsiQuantum and Peter Barrett, general partner at Playground Global, discuss quantum computing at the Playground Annual General Meeting on March 26, 2025.

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  Keynote: Peter Barrett, Playground Global

  June 17, 2025 · 📺 Special Competitive Studies Project

  AI+ Expo for National Competitiveness - “Keynote: Peter Barrett, Playground Global” - June 2, 2025 Peter Barrett, General Partner, Playground Global

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  Pat Gelsinger Announces He Is Joining Playground Global

  April 02, 2025 · 📺 Playground Global

  On stage with Peter Barrett at the Playground Global Annual General Meeting on March 26, 2025, Pat Gelsinger announces he is joining the early stage, deep tech VC firm as a general partner.

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  Playground Global's Peter Barrett on quantum computing and tech's potential

  February 25, 2025 · 📺 CNBC Television

  Kate Rooney sits down with Peter Barrett, General Partner at Playground Global, to discuss quantum computing's potential, its intersection with AI, its implementation in science and health care, and the underlying chemistry that makes emerging technology tick. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/42d859g » Subscribe to CNBC TV: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBCtelevision » Subscribe to CNBC: https://cnb.cx/SubscribeCNBC Turn to CNBC TV for the latest stock market news and analysis. From market futures to live price updates CNBC is the leader in bu…

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  PREDICTIONS 2022 | TECHNOLOGY TRENDS THAT WILL DEFINE THE NEXT DECADE

  December 13, 2021 · 📺 Playground Global

  Hear from Peter Barrett, Jory Bell, Matt Hershenson, Bruce Leak, and Laurie Yoler about the opportunities and challenges facing all of us across the most consequential frontiers of technology in space, AI, automation and robotics, life sciences, next-gen computing, and cybersecurity. Moderated by Reuters technology correspondent Stephen Nellis.

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  Playground Global

  November 10, 2020 · 📺 TechCrunch

  Peter Barrett, General Partner at Playground, shares his thoughts on the robotics and automation space. TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news. Subscribe to TechCrunch today: http://bit.ly/18J0X2e

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  Peter Barrett – CTO & Co founder of Playground.Global

  April 25, 2018 · 📺 Finding Genius Podcast

  Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/futuret... Playground.Global is a $300 million venture fund that partners with the best and brightest when it comes to engineering and robotics. They have built foundational companies such as Agility Robotics and shipped breakthrough products such as Lighthouse AI's security cameras, which can recognize faces and keep track of your kids. Now they want to build a firm that serves the next generation of hardware – building entrepreneurs. Thanks to their design studio, where entrepreneurs can build their products onsite, Playground.global provides equipment…

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  Playground Global's CTO on investing in robotics

  April 14, 2018 · 📺 TechCrunch

  Playground cofounder and CTO Peter Barrett discusses why the firm is betting big on the future of robots.

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