Astro Teller

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540 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan · Google X's Astro Teller: Why the Biggest Breakthroughs Start with Failure | EP167 · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

My father's father was Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, helped build

The Manhattan Project started the sort of nuclear sub process for the United States with Admiral Rickover and actually started the Star Wars initiative, the space-based defense system.

And my mother's father won a Nobel Prize in economics in 1983.

When I was a kid, that was the yardstick, was like how smart you were.

And I love him dearly, but my brother is much smarter than me.

And I had lost to my younger brother.

I was probably seven and he was five by the time it was super clear I was the dumb one in the family.

And that was really complicated for me.

And, you know, at the time it felt like an entirely bad thing.

But I think I got really lucky in a funny way because I learned at a really young age that how smart you were

wasn't actually, that wasn't how I was gonna win, clearly.

So from a very young age, I got interested in what else I could do.

You know, I remember being really attached around seven or eight.

Do you remember those Avis ads way back in the day?

We try harder.

There was there was like a sense.

I mean, it turns out effort is not a good way to try to win.

So I'm not advocating that.

But when I was a kid, there was a period where I thought we try harder.

That's like I'm going to be like Avis again.

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