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X’s Astro Teller on Managing Moonshot Innovation

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How to Hire the Right People for Moonshots

NetSuite by Oracle has never made an offer like this in its 22 years as the leading cloud financial system. You can defer payments of a full NetSuite implementation for six months. The top four things that we look for, fearlessness, which tends to map to audacity and creativity and things like that, humility. If you're trying to build learning machines inside of a moonshot factory, then we need each of the humans here at X to be a learning machine. And so everything at X is wired around trying to make you not feel stupid about actually showing up with a growth mindset.

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