{"id":696978,"date":"2025-10-28T03:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ceo-of-alphabets-x-astro-teller-on-what-makes-a-moonshot\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:50:16","slug":"ceo-of-alphabets-x-astro-teller-on-what-makes-a-moonshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ceo-of-alphabets-x-astro-teller-on-what-makes-a-moonshot\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO of Alphabet’s X, Astro Teller, on what makes a moonshot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Astro Teller, CEO of X, Alphabet\u2019s \u201cmoonshot factory,\u201d<\/a> where the company incubates the nearly impossible, shared a look into what makes a moonshot and detailed the company\u2019s \u201cfail fast\u201d mantra at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Monday.<\/p>\n

Notable companies that started out as moonshots from X\u2019s moonshot factory include Waymo and Wing.<\/p>\n

Teller noted that X has a \u201c2% hit rate,\u201d which means that most of the things the company tries don\u2019t work out, and that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

He said X defines a moonshot as having three specific components. The first is that it needs to attempt to solve a huge problem in the world. Second, there needs to be some kind of product or service that, however unlikely, would make the problem go away. Last, there has to be a sort of breakthrough technology<\/a> that would provide a glimmer of hope at solving that huge, real-world problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you worked at X, and you would just come up with a teleporter, you\u2019ve got a moonshot story hypothesis, I would say, awesome, here\u2019s a tiny amount of money, go see if you can prove that it\u2019s wrong, because it probably is,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t want you to make it work. I want you to get information about whether this is really a once-in-a-generation opportunity or not, and it\u2019s okay if the answer is no.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teller went on to note that if someone is proposing a moonshot, and it sounds reasonable, the company isn\u2019t interested, because that, by definition, wouldn\u2019t be a moonshot. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a bad idea; that\u2019s just not what X is looking for.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you propose something and it sounds pretty wild, that has those three components that I just described, and it\u2019s a testable hypothesis, for a small amount of money, we can learn something about whether it\u2019s a little bit more crazy than we thought, or a little bit less crazy than we thought,\u201d Teller said. \u201cIf it\u2019s a little bit more crazy than we thought, cool, high five, let\u2019s put a bullet in its head and move on. And if it\u2019s a little bit less crazy than we thought, awesome, here\u2019s a tiny bit more money. Go try to find the next opportunity to kill it and repeat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teller emphasized that in order to do moonshots, you need to have equal amounts of audacity and humility.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t have really high audacity, you won\u2019t start on these really unlikely journeys,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, if you have anything less than really high humility, you\u2019ll go luminously far down that unlikely journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

X starts more than 100 things every year, and while 2% of them make it to exit five or six years later, 44% of all of the money that the company spends is on things that graduate and are \u201coutrageously good,\u201d Teller said. He says this is because X \u201ckills all the bad ideas pretty early in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teller stated that people can learn innovation, noting that every single person was creative when they were children, but that we end up unlearning things that are useful, maybe even necessary for radical innovation. However, he says it\u2019s possible to find these things again by creating an environment where you don\u2019t feel stupid to go find them. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Astro Teller, CEO of X, Alphabet\u2019s \u201cmoonshot factory,\u201d where the company incubates the nearly impossible, shared a look into what makes a moonshot and detailed the company\u2019s \u201cfail fast\u201d mantra at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Monday. Notable companies that started out as moonshots from X\u2019s moonshot factory include Waymo and Wing. Teller noted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/astro-teller.jpg?resize=1200,800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[155876,154816,154494,153868,151477],"class_list":["post-696978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-astro-teller","tag-disrupt-2025","tag-techcrunch-disrupt","tag-techcrunch-disrupt-2025","tag-venture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}