Astro Teller
speaker
540 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
Astro Teller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Radical innovation almost always doesn't work.
Anyone who pretends differently is telling you a just-so story after the fact.
The breakthrough technology that gives us a sense
that there's at least a glimmer of hope in the early days.
We were having Googlers who used them for their commute.
And we said, hands right by the steering wheel.
We're going to have cameras in the cars looking at you.
We saw people getting into the back seats, doing their makeup.
One of them fell asleep.
It was never our job to make and sell a car.
Our job is to make the world's best driver.
Alana, thank you for having me.
I've really been looking forward to this conversation.
Let's do it.
I'll give you a few different kind of vectors in.
So one of the ways to think about it is that Google is known for giving people the opportunity to work on 20% time things.
And they actually, inside of Google, now Alphabet for a long time, have talked about 70% is the work, 20% is the adjacent work, and then there's 10%, which is the really much farther out there kind of stuff.
And they had a position open for quite a while called the director of other, which was meant to be like taking care of that 10%.
And they interviewed me and I think several other people and didn't fill the role.
But Larry and Sergei had been thinking about for a long time.
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