Benzinga – Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is staking the state’s economic future on quantum computing, calling it an area where Illinois has “a right to win.”
Pritzker’s $500M Bet
Pritzker, weighing a third term and a possible presidential run, wants to avoid repeating the 1990s, when University of Illinois alumni who built Netscape and helped found YouTube left for Silicon Valley instead of staying in-state, Pritzker said, according to a report by Fast Company.
“They didn’t come to Chicago or stay in the state,” he said. “And the state did nothing really to put a ring around it, to make sure that there was a reason why an entrepreneur and scientist and technologist would stay.”
