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The CEO of X talks about how to diversify his company across the globe. "Our joke is that we're the worst moonshot factory in the world except for all the other ones," he says. How do you keep ideas flourishing but at the same time harvest maybe a higher diversity? Great question. This is an awesome example of how we harvest open-mindedness and everyone having the opportunity to be right"

In this episode, recorded during the 2022 Abundance360 summit, Astro Teller answers questions regarding Google’s OKR framework (and how it doesn’t work for Moonshots), financial incentives vs. intellectual honesty, and resource allocation for endless new ideas.

You will learn about:

01:58 | Pre-mortem exercise
07:30 | OKRs don’t work for Moonshots
09:49 | Moonshots vs. equity
19:11 | How to allocate capital for each idea

Dr. Astro Teller's expertise lies in intelligent technology as the CEO of Alphabet's X, The Moonshot Factory. X is a company dedicated to bringing extraordinary, audacious ideas to reality through science and technology. He was previously the founding CEO of Cerebellum Capital.

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Resources

Visit X’s website.

Learn more about Abundance360.

Read the Tech Blog.

Learn more about Moonshots & Mindsets.

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