AI Agents, Quantum & Career Hacking — Sergio Gago (Cloudera CTO)
Entangled Health with Thomas Ehmer is a long-form podcast and research-media project exploring quantum biology, quantum computing, AI, biotechnology, consciousness research, and the future of medicine.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Quantum computing meets real‑world risk in this wide‑ranging conversation with Sergio Gago, CTO at Cloudera, serial entrepreneur, guitarist, and the community’s “quantum pirate,” exploring how financial risk models and AI agents could transform public health and decision‑making. Drawing on his journey from typing BASIC games off cassette magazines to selling a machine‑learning news analytics startup to Moody’s, Sergio explains how he learned to extract real signal from noisy data and why explainability still matters when markets and patients depend on your models. You dig into how credit‑risk thinking, Monte Carlo simulations, and quantum computing might apply to hospital capacity planning, stochastic disease trajectories, and drug development without promising magic “quantum advantage” where it doesn’t yet exist.
We distinguish established evidence, emerging research, and frontier hypotheses.
Quantum computing meets real‑world risk in this wide‑ranging conversation with Sergio Gago, CTO at Cloudera, serial entrepreneur, guitarist, and the community’s “quantum pirate,” exploring how financial risk models and AI agents could transform public health and decision‑making. Drawing on his journey from typing BASIC games off cassette magazines to selling a machine‑learning news analytics startup to Moody’s, Sergio explains how he learned to extract real signal from noisy data and why explainability still matters when markets and patients depend on your models. You dig into how credit‑risk thinking, Monte Carlo simulations, and quantum computing might apply to hospital capacity planning, stochastic disease trajectories, and drug development without promising magic “quantum advantage” where it doesn’t yet exist.
The episode also looks closely at AI agents as future digital colleagues: where they can give CEOs and clinicians “Jiminy Cricket on your shoulder” superpowers, and where ontology, governance, and sovereignty become non‑negotiable. From embodied AI robots feeding patients and supporting lonely elders, to enterprise agents that actually understand roles, permissions, and tacit company knowledge, you stay anchored in what’s operationally and ethically plausible rather than hype. Along the way, Sergio shares how music, curiosity, and surrounding yourself with people who are smarter than you keep his beginner’s mind alive inside large organizations.
- 02:10 Sergio’s hacker origin story and first failed company
- 11:45 From news analytics to credit‑risk at Moody’s
- 22:30 Quantum finance, quants, and risk models
- 34:10 Applying quantum and AI agents to healthcare systems
- 48:05 Governance, EU AI Act, and sovereign AI
- 58:00 Curiosity, the “quantum pirate,” and staying brave
Sergio Gago, CTO at Cloudera and serial entrepreneur known in the quantum community as the Quantum Pirate, built his first company at 17, sold one to Moody's, and has been applying financial risk modeling logic to AI agents and quantum health ever since. His central argument: the difference between a doctor and an AI-empowered doctor is the same as the difference between a CEO with and without a Jiminy Cricket on their shoulder. Taking a proof-of-concept agent into enterprise-grade production is where almost everyone gets it wrong — and he's spent years figuring out exactly why.
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Guest: Sergio Gago
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiogh/
Newsletter (The Quantum Pirate): https://quantumpirates.substack.com/
Sergio's hacking mindset: from typing snake games off Amstrad cassette tape magazines and discovering that changing one variable gives you infinite lives, to shaping enterprise AI at Cloudera. The "ottoman decision method" — a curiosity-driven experiment for making big life decisions — came up and deserves to be tried. The AI agents in production discussion covers why deploying agents is less a technical problem than an HR one, and what Moody's-style risk modeling actually looks like when applied to health systems.
Our joint gig at quantum.tech Twickenham 2024:
Final Teenspirit (Final Countdown meets Teen Spirit, original by WaxAudio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWwLkd-k0Yc
Entangled Health on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/entangled-health-podcast
Host on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tehmer/
Disclaimer: All conversations at Entangled Health are a co-creation between host and guest in their personal capacities. Nothing here is an official statement from any employer or organization, nor medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional regarding your own health.
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Guest: Sergio Gago
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiogh/
Newsletter (The Quantum Pirate): https://quantumpirates.substack.com/
Sergio's hacking mindset: from typing snake games off Amstrad cassette tape magazines and discovering that changing one variable gives you infinite lives, to shaping enterprise AI at Cloudera. The "ottoman decision method" — a curiosity-driven experiment for making big life decisions — came up and deserves to be tried. The AI agents in production discussion covers why deploying agents is less a technical problem than an HR one, and what Moody's-style risk modeling actually looks like when applied to health systems.
Our joint gig at quantum.tech Twickenham 2024:
Final Teenspirit (Final Countdown meets Teen Spirit, original by WaxAudio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWwLkd-k0Yc
Entangled Health on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/entangled-health-podcast
Host on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tehmer/
Disclaimer: All conversations at Entangled Health are a co-creation between host and guest in their personal capacities. Nothing here is an official statement from any employer or organization, nor medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional regarding your own health.
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