{"id":187767,"date":"2025-11-18T20:54:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/187767\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:54:24","slug":"astro-teller-isnt-afraid-of-killing-ideas-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/187767\/","title":{"rendered":"Astro Teller isn\u2019t afraid of killing ideas; here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch\u2019s editor-in-chief, Connie Loizos, sits down with Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at Alphabet\u2019s X, to explore what it takes to build a factory for truly game-changing innovation. Astro reveals the three components that define a true moonshot \u2014 a huge problem, a science fiction-sounding solution, and a glimmer of breakthrough technology \u2014 and why X deliberately kills 98% of its ideas early. Teller also explains why X keeps teams incredibly small, how it decides between spinning companies out independently versus keeping them as Alphabet \u201cother bets\u201d like Waymo and Wing, and his take on AI hype \u2014 including we should stop treating it like magic and start treating it like electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">StrictlyVC Download posts every Tuesday. Subscribe on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/strictlyvc-download\/id1498270180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Apple<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/76SeToo8Rxj8hRTE0iQwWZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Spotify<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pod.link\/1498270180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>wherever you listen to podcasts<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to be alerted when new episodes drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TechCrunch\u2019s editor-in-chief, Connie Loizos, sits down with Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at Alphabet\u2019s X, to explore what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[4186,18,823,19,17,82,879],"class_list":{"0":"post-187767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-alphabet","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-x"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115572694256488213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}