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Podcast: A Bit of Optimism
Episode: Landing Moonshots with Google's Innovation Chief Dr. Astro Teller
Description: Before Elon Musk rebranded Twitter, X was already in use — at Google. Google X was Google's secret research lab, where Google's most imaginative ideas came to life.As CEO and co-founder, Astro Teller's job is to harness X's wildest, most futuristic technology to solve the world's hardest problems. The same "moonshot factory" that created Google Brain and Waymo self-driving cars is also working on carbon capture, laser-beam Internet, delivery drones, and more.I sat down with Astro to discuss how we build cultures of radical innovation. He shares some useful wisdom about unlearning what we kn...