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X’s Astro Teller on Managing Moonshot Innovation

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Introduction

Astro is Captain of Moonshots at X, Alphabet's dedicated innovation factory. He helped launch it after co-founding a number of other companies and teaching at Stanford University. Astro: Almost nobody called me Astro in high school. It was a not friendly nickname from the soccer team.

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