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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In that really extreme example,
We know that if we built the pedestal first and we're like, hey, boss, look, I'm half done.
In some really lame sense, you're half done.
But in a much more meaningful sense, you have burned down 0% of the risk.
You have utterly wasted your company's money.
The only thing that matters is can you train the monkey?
Because if you can't, thank God you didn't spend time building the pedestal.
And if you can, we can get a pedestal afterwards to get under the monkey.
But now like that's an extreme example.
But in much more subtle ways, the world is awash with people who are building pedestals, not because they're stupid and not because they're nefarious.
It's because their companies reward pedestals.
They're just thinking like, I want to feed my family.
I want my career to go well.
If I work on the monkey,
it's probably not going to work.
I kind of have a sense that this monkey's probably not going to recite Shakespeare.
I don't know what I'm going to do next, but I know if I build the pedestal, then I can be like, hey, boss, I'm half done, and I'll get a bonus, I'll get a promotion, and I can leave the monkey problem for whoever comes after me.
Or just hope that the monkey thing doesn't come up until after I've quit and moved on to another job.
It sounds ridiculous, but actually, this is most of corporate America.
It's cute.
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