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"If it were easy, it would have been done already. If you think you know how to do it, probably not a moonshot," he says. "We're obsessed with efficiency and you can't drive efficiency if you don't have tight learning loops." He suggests pre-mortems where teams come up ahead of time with what's going to go wrong.

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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