Despite the emphasis on detachment from ideas, X employees do have significant skin in the game when projects spin out.

The moonshot factory formerly known as Google [X] revealed one of its secret projects today — Dandelion, a maker of geothermal systems for home use. The company "graduated" from X to operate as a ...

Teller says X has a 2% hit rate, which means that most of the things the company tries don't work out, and that's okay.

Greetings from TED in rainy Vancouver, British Columbia. TED is the conference where art and ideas are as important as technology, and all the powerful people in tech congregate to broaden their minds ...

Google previously failed to bring internet access to rural and remote areas using high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere. It initiated the Moonshot Factory in 2016 after trying to employ ...

Astro Teller, the “Captain of Moonshots” at Alphabet’s X idea factory, shows off two of X’s innovations: Google’s self-driving car, a venture that was spun off as Waymo; and the communications ...

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