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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Before Alphabet was created, the fact that there's like a physics to businesses, and as they get larger, they get more complicated.
It's nobody's fault.
It's just the physics of businesses.
And they wanted to make sure that what they imagined as Alphabet, even before it had that name, would be able to keep stretching itself outside its comfort zone.
And so...
X, the moonshot factory, was set up 16 years ago with that as our mission.
Don't solve Google's current problems.
Google's good at solving Google's current problems.
Go find big new problems in the world that we could be really proud of solving and then hopefully find some world-changing solution to those problems.
So that's been our mission for a long time is to help Alphabet, even before it had a name, get more surface area with the world and to create
A series of businesses, which we call moonshots, that were particularly audacious, both in the way if they succeeded, they could help the world and in the sort of quality of the business created.
Awesome.
So at least what we call a moonshot is it has to have three components.
The first one is there has to be a huge problem with the world that you can name and you want to solve.
Otherwise, it's a bit of an academic exercise.
Then tell me a story.
Tell us a story.
about some science fiction sounding product or service.
Don't worry yet about whether you can make it, whether it's likely, how even you would make it, but what's that product or service that we could pre-agree
If you could make it, it would resolve that huge problem with the world.
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