Landing Moonshots with Google’s Innovation Chief Dr. Astro Teller | A Bit of Optimism Podcast
Before Elon Musk rebranded Twitter, X was already in use — at Google. @XTheMoonshotFactory was Google’s secret research lab, where Google’s most imaginative ideas came to life.
As CEO and co-founder, Astro Teller’s job is to harness X’s wildest, most futuristic technology to solve the world’s hardest problems. The same “moonshot factory” that created Google Brain and Waymo self-driving cars is also working on carbon capture, laser-beam Internet, delivery drones, and more.
I sat down with Astro to discuss how we build cultures of radical innovation. He shares some useful wisdom about unlearning what we know and why the counterintuitive approach is the key to landing moonshots.
This…is A Bit of Optimism.
To learn more about Astro and his work, check out:
https://x.company/
⏰ Timestamps
0:00 The creation of Google X
6:11 Moonshots, gambling, and card-counting
17:25 The problem with "measure twice, cut once"
20:44 The monkey and the pedestal
29:24 How quickly can you get to "no"
43:55 Creativity is play, not win or lose
46:20 Alexander and the Gordian Knot
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