What podcasts say about Astro Teller

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What Astro Teller has said on podcasts

33 statements · 21 positive · 6 negative · 6 neutral

on MoonshotsNeutralOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
A moonshot requires a named, huge problem that the team wants to solve.
“there has to be a huge problem with the world that you can name and you want to solve”
Listen at 1:22
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on MoonshotsPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
A moonshot requires breakthrough technology offering at least a small chance of success.
“there has to be some kind of breakthrough technology that gives us a prayer, at least a tiny chance”
Listen at 1:46
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on Moonshot teamsPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Moonshot teams need very high audacity.
“you have to have very high audacity”
Listen at 2:24
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on Moonshot teamsPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Moonshot teams need humility equal to their audacity.
“you have to have in equal measure is humility”
Listen at 2:40
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on MoonshotsNegativeOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
First-principles techno-economics can eliminate moonshots unlikely to become enduring businesses.
“You can often kill moonshots in the very early days because it's just not going to turn into an enduring business.”
Listen at 4:34
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on Loss-making projectsNegativeOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Projects expected to lose money probably will not change the world.
“if you're doing something that's going to lose money, it's probably not going to change the world.”
Listen at 4:44
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on Artificial IntelligencePositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
AI will shorten the time needed to de-risk moonshot ideas.
“I think AI is going to somewhat shrink that time from a crazy idea to us having de-risked it”
Listen at 6:20
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on Google BrainPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google Brain produced the technology that ultimately became TPUs.
“TPUs ultimately came from Google Brain.”
Listen at 8:16
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on Transformer ArchitecturePositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
The transformer architecture underlying ChatGPT came from Google Brain.
“The transformer, which sort of underpins everything, it's literally the T in ChatGPT. Yes, that came from Google Brain.”
Listen at 8:20
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on Major innovationsNeutralOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Major innovations typically require 15 to 20 years of development.
“Every single innovation is like an overnight success that was 15 to 20 years in the making.”
Listen at 8:49
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on Clean water technologiesPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Clean-water technologies must reach about one cent per liter to transform access.
“You have to be able to get to like a penny a liter all-in cost for it to really change the world.”
Listen at 9:38
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on Clean water technologiesNegativeOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
A clean-water approach costing ten cents per liter is not viable for X.
“it's going to be $0.10 a liter. Nope. Well, we'll stop doing that.”
Listen at 10:11
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on Time-shifted and location-shifted energyPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Energy storage and transmission that shift time and location will transform the world.
“Being able to time shift and location shift energy is absolutely going to change the world.”
Listen at 10:35
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on EducationPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
X will continue pursuing education innovation until it finds a solution.
“We're going to keep coming back to that one until we find something”
Listen at 10:53
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on Humanity's explorer spiritNegativeOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Humanity had lost some of its explorer spirit during the stagnation period.
“I think functionally we had lost our way a little bit”
Listen at 13:12
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on Moonshot projectsPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Funding highly energetic optimists will produce some moonshots.
“you will absolutely get some moonshots”
Listen at 14:01
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on Moonshot factoriesPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
More organizations will establish moonshot factories in the future.
“I expect you will see a lot more of it in the future, not just from us.”
Listen at 15:05
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on High-risk innovation teamsPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
High-risk innovation should be isolated where its uncertainty and disruption are tolerated.
“you have to sequester the choice Bs to a place where they're actually wanted and the mess that comes with them is tolerated.”
Listen at 17:16
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
on X moonshot teamsPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
X deliberately keeps moonshot teams small.
“We keep our teams tiny”
Listen at 18:43
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on X moonshot development costsPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
X's cost per graduated project is declining approximately 10–20% annually.
“that is getting cheaper at, I don't know, 10, 20% year over year”
Listen at 21:27
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
on Moonshot developmentPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Developing moonshots costs less now than previously.
“it's cheaper to get to moonshots now than it was in the past.”
Listen at 21:42
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
on Systematizing radical innovationPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Systematizing radical innovation is X's meta-moonshot.
“the meta moonshot we often talk about as the meta moonshot is how to systematize radical innovation.”
Listen at 24:23
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
on X moonshot prioritiesPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
X prioritizes concrete global problems such as water, energy storage, and education.
“What we're obsessed with is the problem, whether it's clean water or it's a way to make grid-scale energy storage or it's education”
Listen at 26:49
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
on AI-driven moonshot developmentNegativeOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Moonshot development is unlikely to become fully AI-driven within the next decade.
“I'm not sure any time in the next decade it's going to be 100%”
Listen at 28:20
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
on Moonshot deploymentNeutralOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Humans will remain necessary for socially acceptable deployment for at least one or two decades.
“you need humans as part of that process for at least the next decade or two.”
Listen at 28:42
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
on X moonshot selectionPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
X should pursue audacious ideas that can be de-risked within a decade.
“I want you to find the most audacious things you can work on that we can move from crazy idea to not crazy idea in less than a decade”
Listen at 29:35
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
on X moonshotsNeutralOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
X has produced approximately 35 to 50 graduates over 16 years.
“sort of 35 to 50 graduates”
Listen at 30:50
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
on Moonshot validationPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Teams should validate the hardest capability before building supporting infrastructure.
“If you can train the monkey, we can always build a pedestal afterwards.”
Listen at 31:51
Open the episode · Google X's Astro Teller: The $1B Bet No CEO Will Back, Moonshots 3x Cheaper in 16 Yrs, and Clean Water at 1¢/L| EP #300
on Failure in innovationPositiveOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Failure provides learning that success does not.
“You only learn things when you're wrong.”
Listen at 32:11
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on Moonshot selection errorsNegativeOct 5, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
False-positive moonshot decisions can cost tens of millions of dollars.
“The cost for a false positive where we believe it's a moonshot, we run it for many years, and then it turns out not to be is very high.”
Listen at 34:52
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