Rigetti Computing, Inc. (RGTI) Third Quarter 2022 Business Update Call Transcript

Rigetti Computing, Inc. (NASDAQ:RGTI) Third Quarter 2022 Business Update Call November 14, 2022 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Alissa Fitzgerald – Member of Board of Directors and Audit Committee and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Rick Danis – Interim President and Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel

Brian Sereda – Chief Financial Officer

David Rivas – Senior Vice President-Systems and Services

Conference Call Participants

Krish Sankar – Cowen

David Williams – Benchmark

Quinn Bolton – Needham

Operator

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Rigetti Computing’s Third Quarter 2022 Business Update Conference Call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers’ presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. Please be advised that today’s conference is being recorded.

I would now like to hand the call over to a representative from Investor Relations for a brief introduction. Please go ahead.

Unidentified Company Representative

Thank you, operator, and good evening everyone. Today Rigetti will provide an update regarding its business and technology progress during the third quarter 2022 in addition to recent CEO transition announcements. We will not be discussing the financial results for the third quarter of 2022 as financial statements for the third quarter are not yet available and Rigetti has filed an extension notice for its third quarter 10-Q with the SEC. With me is Dr. Alissa Fitzgerald, Member of Rigetti’s Board of Directors and Audit Committee and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee; Rick Danis, Interim President and CEO and General Counsel; Brian Sereda, CFO; and David Rivas, SVP of Systems and Services.

Before I turn the call over to Alissa, I’d like to point out that this call and Rigetti’s business update press release contain forward-looking statements concerning current expectations, objectives and underlying assumptions including statements with respect to Rigetti’s technology and technology roadmap, milestones, business plans, strategy and prospects, collaborations and partnerships, CEO transition and expectations with respect to the company’s financial statements and internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures among others. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described. Please refer to Rigetti’s business update press release issued today for factors that could cause those results to differ materially.

And now I’ll turn it over to Alissa.

Alissa Fitzgerald

Thank you and welcome everyone. To start off, I’d like to take a few moments to speak on behalf of the board of directors regarding the recent announcements on the transition of Rigetti’s Chief Executive Officer as well as our executive search for a new CEO currently underway. But first I’ll introduce myself. I’m the longest tenured Board Member, Member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. I am also one of three technologists on the board.

I completed my education at MIT in Stanford in aerospace engineering and worked in the aerospace industry earlier in my career later moving into a specialty area of the semiconductor industry known as MEMS, or micro electro mechanical systems. Since 2003, I’ve been the CEO of a technology company, which I founded A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates, which provides specialized engineering services to develop emerging silicon chip technologies into products. Through my participation on Rigetti’s board over the past four years, I have a comprehensive understanding of Rigetti’s technology, its technical teams and ultimately what I believe is its collective promise to potentially revolutionized computing technology as we know it today.

Now, to address the CEO transition, we filed an 8-K earlier today reflecting that Rick Danis has been appointed Interim President and CEO of the company and that Chad will be remaining with the company in a non-executive capacity until his previously announced departure date on December 15, 2022. The board firmly believes that at Rigetti’s current growth stage, it is important to have a seasoned public company executive at the helm that can focus on the time consuming day to day demands of running a public company as well as leading and scaling an advanced technology organization. Although the company anticipated that Chad would remain his company in a technical position, Chad has made the personal decision to leave the company.

The company expects to enter into a separation agreement with Chad in connection with his departure, the terms of which will be made publicly available when filed. On behalf of the board, I want to assure you that the CEO transition was prompted solely by the board’s consideration of who should run the day to day operations of this growing company going forward. In addition, on behalf of the board and the Rigetti team, I want to recognize and thank Chad for his visionary leadership. Chad is a pioneer in the development and commercialization of quantum computers and his vision has been instrumental in bringing Rigetti to where we are today. Since the company’s inception, it has built the world’s first dedicated quantum fab, brought some of the very first quantum computers to the market and developed a strong and differentiated technology position. Perhaps most importantly, this pioneering vision has helped us to build a world-class and highly capable team, one that possesses incredible ambition and technical expertise and we believe is well positioned to continue driving our business and technology progress going forward.

While this has been a dynamic period, we remain well versed and confident in the company’s long term trajectory, its unique technical capabilities and approach, its technology roadmap and the potential enormity of the opportunity for quantum computers. Furthermore, the talent and technical brilliance at Rigetti is outstanding with dozens of PhDs from some of the world’s most renowned universities. The team has been responsible for the company’s pioneering progress in quantum over the years and remains laser focused on advancing toward our milestones. Chad’s departure does not impact our technology roadmap portfolio of 152 patents issued or pending, nor our other proprietary approaches. As previously announced, we are conducting an executive search for the CEO position. Rick Danis, Rigetti’s General Counsel, has taken on the role of Interim President and CEO, while we work to fill this role on a more permanent basis. Rick is well suited to steward Rigetti through this period and has our full confidence. He has been a leader with the company for three years now and is also well versed in our mission, roadmap and all other considerations regarding Rigetti as well as the day to day activities of running a public company.

And with that, I’ll now turn it over to Rick Danis, Interim CEO.

Rick Danis

Thank you, Alissa. I’d like to reiterate a couple of Alissa’s points and also provide some additional color were helpful. First, I remain highly confident in the company’s technology and roadmap. Its strength and ingenuity are the result of the extraordinary depth and talent we’ve built across the organization and the hard work of our team – our teams have put in over many years. Between our Chief Technology Officer, Mike Harburn, and our SVP of Systems and Services, David Rivas, and their truly outstanding world-class technical teams, the board and I believe our technology development is in strong and capable hands. Across the organization, the people of Rigetti have a deeply held shared vision for what Rigetti computing has the potential to become and what our technology could enable in the world.

We have strong core values that bind us together, give us clarity and serve as a bedrock for our future. On top of this, the company’s fundamentals and governance are strong. Now the remainder of this call will be focused on our business update for the third quarter of 2022, starting off with Brian Sereda, CFO, followed by David Rivas, SVP of Systems and Services for a lengthier discussion of our technology progress.

Brian Sereda

Thanks, Rick. Rigetti maintained solid business momentum in the third quarter and we continue to make steady progress toward our roadmap objectives, now for some color regarding our postponement of our third quarter financial results. As you were aware, we completed our business combination with Supernova on March 2nd of this year. At the closing of the business combination, Supernova agreed to subject a portion of their common stock investing based on the performance of Rigetti’s common stock. Approximately 3.1 million shares became subject to vesting and are considered unvested and will only vested during the five year period started on our March 2nd closing date. Certain volume weighted share prices are maintained for certain periods of time. The fair market value of this earn out be calculated quarterly is reflected on our balance sheet as well as on our income statement under other income and expense.

We have historically used evaluation methodology that included a volatility factor that is based on the weighted average of the volatilities of the trading price of common stock of a group of comparable public companies, including the company’s common stock and the trading price of the publicly traded warrants. The company has already determined that it is appropriate to revise the weighting of the volatility assumptions to include a greater weight for the volatility of the trading price of the company’s public warrants for the third quarter 2022 financial statements. In addition, the company has determined that a restatement of its Q1 and Q2 financial statements is required to reflect this revision. In addition to the earn-out liability, the company is completing its analysis with respect to treatment of additional operating expenses. These expenses are estimated to total approximately $1.6 million in aggregate relating to electrical utility fees for a portion of electrical usage at Rigetti’s Berkeley locations since 2019 that were not paid and recognized in prior periods.

We are now evaluating how to account for these additional operating expenses, which is expected to include recording and accrual of the estimated additional electrical utility fees to be paid to the utility provider in our financial statements for the quarters end of March 31, 2022, and June 30, 2022, and recording operating expenses in our financial statements for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.

As part of the restatement of the financial statements for the quarters ended March 31, 2022, and June 30, 2022, we also expect to reflect the correction of an immaterial error related to the valuation of the warrant liability with respect to the warrants issued to Trinity Capital, Inc. in the restated financial statements for the quarters ended March 31, 2022 and reverse the prior correction we previously recorded for such immaterial error in the financial statements for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 in the restated financial statements for such period.

We are also reassessing the calculation of fair value for our private warrants that are treated as derivative warrant liabilities for periods ended March 31, 2022 and June 30, 2022. Any revisions resulting from the reassessment would impact the reported amount of derivative warrant liabilities on the balance sheets and change in fair value of derivative warrant liabilities on the statements of operations. It is possible that additional adjustments may be identified in connection with the company’s further assessment.

Due the foregoing, we are assessing the effect on the company’s internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures, which may result in a material weakness in our internal control related to the accounting for complex instruments in addition to our previously reported material weakness in internal control over financial reporting related to insufficient controls over the accounting for complex warrant instruments, which resulted in our disclosure controls and procedures having been determined to be ineffective for the first quarter of 2022 and second quarter of 2022, as previously disclosed. It is possible that such assessment may result in the identification of other material weaknesses.

As a result of all of these matters, we filed a notification of late filing with the SEC today to extend the filing dates of our form 10-Q for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2022. Accordingly, we will not be disclosing our financial results for the period today, but look forward to providing investors with this information when available.

Now, before handing it over to David, I’d like to provide a quick update on what we are seeing in the current macroeconomic landscape as well as where we are seeing Rigetti in this climate. First, government interest and quantum remains strong and we are actively working with our partners to pursue relevant opportunities. Second, we, like many other companies, are taking actions to monitor operations in burn rate. Specifically, this consists of aiming to enhance our operational efficiency inclusive of SG&A activities and maximizing our R&D spend through strategic collaborations. Given the current state of the industry, we believe that our roadmap progress and strategic partnerships will continue to be the most important elements of our company’s success over the next several years.

Thanks again, everyone. I’ll now turn the call over to David Rivas, Senior Vice President of Systems & Services. David?

David Rivas

Thank you, Brian. Many of us met during Rigetti’s Inaugural Investor Day in September, and I’m really happy to be here with you again today. Now, I will provide everyone with an update on our technology progress during the quarter, starting with a few key highlights.

First, as we continue to make technical progress on our 84 Ankaa and 336 Q Lyra systems in the quarter we plan for these systems to leverage our fourth generation architecture, which is designed for higher fidelities and connectivity and is expected to deliver meaningful performance improvements when compared with our third generation circuit architecture.

Second, Rigetti entered into public preview on Microsoft Azure Quantum platform. With this announcement, we are excited to say that Rigetti Quantum Computers are now available on the world’s two largest public cloud platforms.

Third, we announced a partnership with Blue Force to supply new modular dilution fridges that will be necessary for our anticipated 336-qubit Lyra system and beyond.

Fourth, we made progress with Ampere on leveraging hybrid quantum classical computing for quantum machine learning with recent tests completed on a finance application.

And fifth, we begin a new collaboration with Nvidia aiming to develop a hybrid GPU-QPU workflow for climate modeling applications. This work is expected to build on our prior application of quantum-classical solutions to weather modeling.

Now, at our Investor Day, we presented our product roadmap, which lays out what we believe to be the building blocks for achieving performance at scale and progressing towards quantum advantage. You can find it in a video of the discussion on our investor website located at investors.rigetti.com. There are three key beliefs at Rigetti that drive the company’s approach to quantum advantage. First, we believe that quantum computers with a few hundred to a few thousand qubits will demonstrate quantum advantage and unlock real world commercial value.

While we are confident in our long-term approach to much larger systems, we simply do not believe that it will take a million qubits to reach quantum advantage and start scaling our quantum computing as a service business model.

Second, we see quantum advantage unfolding in two phases, narrow and then broad. We define narrow quantum advantage has the ability to run real world customer workloads better, faster or cheaper than classical alternatives available to customers. We believe broad QA where classically intractable problems can be solved for the first time will be a second inflection point after narrow QA. We expect the Ankaa and Lyra generation systems to accelerate the path towards achieving quantum advantage.

Third, we see the delivery of Ankaa as a critical milestone towards quantum advantage inflections and one that should instill high confidence in our roadmap and plans to unlock commercial quantum computing in our QCaaS model. Ankaa will be the first system based on our fourth generation circuit architecture designed for higher performance.

Most importantly, we plan to leverage the Ankaa chip in subsequent larger systems such as Lyra 336 Q, aiming to deliver performance at scale. By combining four Ankaa processors into a single Lyra system as planned, we are striving to become the first in the industry to truly bring together advances in speed, scale and fidelity in a production system.

Turning to our Q3 progress on our Ankaa system. Last quarter, we announced we were beginning tests at the – on the first 84 Q silicon. In Q3, we tested a 24-qubit sublattice on that 84 qubit silicon and demonstrated several gates with fidelity exceeding 99% and as high as 99.5%. We expect the first deployed Ankaa chip will roughly cut in half our median two qubit error rates compared to our current Aspen-M-2 system and with planned ongoing improvements from there, we expect Ankaa and our fourth generation architecture to ultimately reach the error rates needed for quantum advantage and error correction.

We have also continued making progress on our Lyra system, and we have now successfully demonstrated tuneable inter-chip coupling in the multichip arrangement that our 336 Q Lyra is expected to leverage. We are also in the progress of upgrading our production fleet., In the near term, we are working to upgrade our current ADQ Aspen-M-2 system with a new 80 cubit chip, which we expect to provide users with better fidelities and improved stability.

Now, turning to our partnerships. Last quarter, we noted that we successfully integrated Ampere’s cloud native processing platform with Rigetti’s quantum computing systems. Since then, we’ve tested increasingly complex quantum machine learning use cases with this hybrid setup, including applications and finance, and we continue to see what we believe are promising results. We continue to see financial applications based on quantum machine learning as an exciting area for the pursuit and demonstration of quantum advantage.

We look forward to sharing more about the progress on our existing engagements in finance, including with partners at Standard Chartered and NASDAQ in the future. We are also developing error mitigation and correction capabilities through our partnerships. For example, we announced the anticipated integration of Keysight’s True-Q error mitigation software into our Quantum Cloud Services platform and have recently onboarded our first beta users. We believe that error mitigation is a critical ingredient in achieving quantum advantage on near-term systems. With regards to error correction, today, Rigetti published a blog highlighting the results of an ongoing collaboration with Goldman Sachs. In this work, the teams proposed a new gate design to adapt large scale quantum computers for error correction and insight that could potentially inform our future chip architectures.

In summary, we continued to make strong technical progress during the quarter with solid momentum toward meeting our roadmap milestones.

To close, I’d like to end on a personal note. During my time at Rigetti, it’s been clear to me that the brilliance and dedication of Rigetti’s people to our craft is one of our most compelling advantages. We are driven by the compelling technical approach at Rigetti and what we see as a once in a lifetime opportunity expressed in the company’s mission statement to build the world’s most powerful computers to solve humanity’s most important and pressing problems. This is as true today as it was when I joined the company not quite four years ago. And we firmly believe we have the right approach, assets and advantages to potentially become the standard in quantum over the long-term.

And with that, we’d like to take your questions now.

Question-and-Answer Session

Operator

[Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Krish Sankar of Cowen. Please go ahead.

Krish Sankar

Yes, hi. Thanks for taking my question. I actually have many questions. I’ll try to condense it. The first two ones is for Alissa. On the CEO transition, number one, from an outsider perspective it’s not a very good look on the Founder and CEO resigned so early. I am kind of curious from your vantage point, is there anything else you can disclose about the reason or besides personal and it kind of comes at the same time your controls are being impacted, financial control, anything you can discuss on that? And then I had a quick follow up for you, Alissa, and then I have a couple of questions for Brian.

Alissa Fitzgerald

Yes, thanks for the question, Krish. So let me reassure you this transition was the board’s decision because of a belief that it is time to have a CEO who’s experienced running the time consuming day to day of a public company as well as leading and scaling an advanced technology organization. We had expected that Chad would remain with the company in a technical position. However he made the personal decision to leave and that was his decision. So we have in this transition period decided that the company would be best served by having Rick Danis as interim CEO and that’s how we arrived in today.

Krish Sankar

Got it, got it. Fair enough. And then a quick follow up on that, Alissa. Have you spoken to your partners and customers about this? And does this impact any of your DARPA contracts?

Rick Danis

Yes, Krish, why don’t I take that? This is Rick. Yes, we – our teams are in close dialogue with our partners and customers on a very regular basis. It’s not impacting anything. We are having those conversations and the relationships are being managed by highly competent individuals within our organization. I take this opportunity to also say that as we’ve sort of reiterated numerous times here that the tech team here is world-class very deep. Those relationships were and still are managed by those folks in the rest of the team.

Krish Sankar

Got it. Thanks for the break. And then I had three questions for Brian. Brian, on the internal controls like when did you guys realize this? Was it like just like a few weeks ago? Was it like recently or long time ago and kind of like – kind of can you help us kind of like a Fab that roadmap on to what led to this? When did you realize it and when the decision was made?

Brian Sereda

Yes, all I can say is that we were – as we were going through the review process in the quarter as we were entering the discussions and reviewing the results with our auditors this is when the issue was discovered. Is that – so this was subsequent to the close of the quarter and again during the close process and review process of the quarterly close.

Krish Sankar

Got it. Got it. And then two other questions for you, Brian. One was, I think can you kind of tell us what your cash burn rate is now that you’re ramping Fab-1? Is it still in the 25 million to 30 million a quarter range, or is it higher?

Brian Sereda

I cannot get into the financial discussions right now. You can take a look at our prior quarter filings and more than happy to get into the details when we do publish our results. And as we’ve discussed previously, we’re on track as far as our capital expenditures are going for the year, so – but again more details to follow and happy to take the follow up questions once we publish our results, Krish.

Krish Sankar

Got it. I mean just to follow up on that, Brian. Would Fab-1 ramp seen in the cash burn rate?

Brian Sereda

In terms of Fab-1, there are some capital expenditures that we have earmarked for Fab-1 [indiscernible] and redundancy and additional tools, expanding the facilities, et cetera. But it’s we’re not expecting any great inflection as we’ve talked about in the past in our capital expenditures.

Krish Sankar

Got it. Got it. And then the final question is like you have like $75 million in committed equity facility. Are there any conditions around that like when it comes to debt people have covenants? So I’m just wondering is there any conditions around that $75 million committed equity facility?

Brian Sereda

The only conditions are those that are in the agreement itself around trading volume and so forth, is that we have to maintain a balance with the trading – daily trading volume if we decide to use it. Obviously at the – we have – we maintain a very strong balance sheet as we’ve reported in the past. And if and when we decide to utilize the facility, we have to manage within the conditions of the agreement, the facility agreement itself.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of David Williams of Benchmark. Please go ahead.

David Williams

Hi, thanks so much for taking my questions. Certainly appreciate it. I guess I’m not sure who’s best suited to answer this, maybe Alissa, but there is a lot of information really to parse through and it sounds like a lot of different issues this quarter that that have kind of reared their head. I guess from just a high level, can you help us understand the significant of the restatement that needs to happen. And then maybe just the – I guess I’m a bit confused on the electricity that you pointed to, but can you give us anything that I guess gives us comfort that these types of issues were overlooked, but the technology is still progressing exactly as you said. Just anything that would give us a bit of confidence here would be very, very helpful.

Brian Sereda

Yes. Okay – oh, sorry. I guess – sorry, completely separate issues, David. The complex financial instrument issue the – it was a discovery after the quarter end as – again as we’re going through the review and close process in the quarter. The electrical facility issue as we’ve discussed in the past that we’re doing some improvements at our facilities, and we discovered, and part of the project – part of the capital expenditure plans for the year involved facility improvements at Berkeley, including improvements to utility services, et cetera.

And during that work, which has been which has actually just recently been kicked off, we came to the conclusion that there were some deficiencies in the electrical [indiscernible] or the infrastructure that is currently in place. And so it led us to the conclusion that we had to revisit what much electricity usage was actually being accounted for in the Berkeley facility.

So we’re in the process now to repair that. And again, the estimates that we quoted will be recorded in the third quarter and also in the restated financials.

Rick Danis

And David, this is Rick. I will take the sort of second part of your question there. This is completely unrelated to our technology roadmap. The team as I keep kind of reiterating is really, really deep, and smart and very good at developing this technology and very motivated by that. And our board is extremely supportive of our technology roadmap and the plans to continue on that roadmap.

David Williams

All right. Thanks so much for the color there. And then maybe secondly, just kind of on the signaling here, it seems like there has been quite a bit of difference just kind of from, I guess, the board standpoint and expecting Chad to stay on to him then leaving and remaining as CEO to now not being CEO and just an executive. I guess just help us understand what this should – in the end, what it should all look like. Should we expect more changes? Is there another shooter drop here that we should be concerned about, just again, looking for some comfort that we’re at least have everything out in the open here and we can move forward?

Unidentified Company Representative

Sure, David. It’s been a really dynamic situation. We have been filing updates immediately as events unfolded. We have a CEO search underway with a top tier executive recruiting firm. We have seen a landscape of very seasoned individuals who are available, who are great fit for Rigetti’s profile. And we are moving forward as soon as possible to get a new CEO in place.

David Williams

Okay. Thanks. And the last one for me is just maybe from the Analyst Day, the progress, the roadmap, all of the things that were announced and discussed, is there anything from that that we should be expecting to change in terms of maybe the CapEx or the fab expansion, the geographic expansion, anything there that we should think about changing?

Rick Danis

No, thanks, David, this is Rick. There isn’t any expected changes on any of the roadmap or any of the things that were presented to you at the Investor Day, and we remain on track with our technology roadmap.

David Williams

Thanks so much. Best of luck. Appreciate the time.

Rick Danis

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question comes from Quinn Bolton of Needham. Please go ahead.

Quinn Bolton

Hey, I guess first for Brian, as I go through the reasons for the restatement, the warrant expense, sounds like that’s all non-cash, but the electricity consumption sounds like that is a cash charge. And just wanted to make sure that I am sort of reading this correctly.

Brian Sereda

Yes, correct. Yes, operating expenses geared for the electricity is cash, and the rest is all non-cash below the line.

Quinn Bolton

Okay. So on the electricity, can you just go through again exactly what happened? I understand you guys are going through a facility upgrade, you may realize that you need a better electrical infrastructure, but how did the electricity company not realize you guys were consuming a lot more electricity than perhaps they were billing for you – billing you for?

Brian Sereda

I wish I could explain. This began a few years ago. Only recently did we realize that that the utility or, I guess, the electrical delivery or the infrastructure that was delivering the electricity service now was in sufficiently recording the expense over the last few years. And so we are in the process of upgrading that. And in the process of upgrading that, we made an estimate of what we thought the under-reported expense was related to electricity usage. And we’ll then start to obviously negotiate going forward on how we rectify that with the utility provider.

Quinn Bolton

So the $1.6 million is your estimate of the electricity consumption or what you think you will, you’ll with the electricity company for. And then on a go forward basis do you think you have the proper infrastructure in place to properly record future electricity consumption at that facility?

Brian Sereda

Yes, well, it’s being repaired as we speak that whole – the infrastructure delivering utilities to the Berkeley facility is being upgraded. And it’s expected to be completed sometime in the new year. But for now we’ll continue to monitor and discuss with the utility provider on how we can accrue expenses on a more real-time basis going forward. So that we’re not deficient you might say at a future period. So now that we’re aware of the issue, we wouldn’t expect any additional catch up accruals, or we don’t expect to recognize anything related to electricity usage going forward that that would result in a deficiency in any type of accrual.

Quinn Bolton

Got it. And I apologize if I missed it, but have you provided, or can you provide any estimate of how long you think it will take to go through the warrant expense and the electricity issues and be in position to restate, do you think this is a matter of months? Could it be potentially quarters?

Brian Sereda

You know, I hesitate to give an estimate. We don’t expect it to take months. We expect it to take far shorter period of time. But we are starting the work now. And it – again, I wish I could qualify this with a hard number of days or weeks, but we wouldn’t expect it to extend for any sort of a lengthy period of time.

Quinn Bolton

Got it. Okay. And then Brian, you mentioned just recognizing the macro environment you made a comment about sort of looking at expenses trying to conduct R&D through strategic partnerships. Just wondering are you guys have – you changed, in response to the economic environment, have you changed your OpEx plans or are you continuing sort of under the kind of the previous guidance or expectations that, that you’ve provided the street? Has there been any meaningful change in OpEx or cash burn? I know you can’t give us exact figures, but as we’re thinking about that…

Brian Sereda

Yes.

Quinn Bolton

Go-forward expense or cash burn rate, just wondering if there have been meaningful changes relative to past expectations.

Brian Sereda

Yes, I look forward to giving everybody an update here in due course once we complete the work on the restatement. And at that time we’ll share the guidance for the full year as we have in past quarters. But for now we really can’t speak to the numbers Quinn. So we have to stick with just the statement of the facts about the delay and the filing of the financial statements. And then our expectations are that within a reasonable period of time here, we will be able to discuss the full quarter results along with our results in comparison to what we had offered as guidance at previous quarters.

Quinn Bolton

Got it. Okay. Thanks very much, Brian.

Operator

Thank you. At this time, I would like to turn the call back over to Rick Danis for any closing remarks, sir.

Rick Danis

Thank you, operator. And thank you everyone for joining us today. We genuinely appreciate your time and interest in Rigetti Computing. Thanks.

Operator

This concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

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