Astro Teller
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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And then what's the breakthrough technology that gives us a sense that there's at least a glimmer of hope in the early days that we could actually make that science fiction sounding product or service so that we could resolve that huge problem with the world.
And if we have that, we're not done.
That's a moonshot story hypothesis.
That's like opening up the starting gates.
And from there, great.
that's a testable hypothesis.
Let's go get some evidence that teaches us either that things are a little bit more exciting than we thought or a little bit less exciting.
And if they're less exciting, cool, we'll stop it.
And if they're more exciting, great, we'll double down on it.
and that is the sort of basic internal function of X. Back to your question about sort of how I got into this position, X and Waymo were kind of created, came into being at about the same time, and at least partly,
X came into being as a place to house this thing that ultimately became Waymo.
And as part of that getting formed, the founders of Alphabet asked a man named Sebastian Thrun to set up X and then asked him if he wanted a co-founder.
And he came and asked me if I would do that with him.
So very practically, that's how I ended up for about two years.
I was his first mate.
You know, we co-founded it, but I reported to him.
And then he ended up
leaving X after about two years to set up Udacity on the outside.
And at that point, I became the captain of Moonshots instead of the first mate.
Well, spoiler alert, radical innovation almost always doesn't work.
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