Astro Teller
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540 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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That was a sort of very intense premortem.
Sure.
So in the early days of X, I kept saying,
incorrectly assuming that it would land well with people, we should always work on the riskiest part of the problem first.
In my mind, that sounded like, duh.
But everyone at X clearly was like, hmm, not sure what Astra is saying.
That doesn't sound right.
So I think I was having no effect on people, at least on that subject, for several years.
And then I was at a Wall Street Journal live conference.
It was on stage.
Someone was interviewing me.
And I said, like,
obviously you should work on the riskiest part of the problem first.
And the woman who was interviewing me said, that doesn't sound right.
Can you explain that?
Like unpack that somehow.
And I was just in a moment of being hyperbolic.
I said, look, let's pretend we were working on a project and our mission was to get a monkey to stand on the top of a 10 foot pedestal and recite Shakespeare.
Which should we do first?
Should we build the pedestal first or should we spend our time training the monkey first?
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