Google’s self-driving cars are developed within X, the department colloquially known as “Google’s Moonshot Factory”.
Astro Teller is the head of X (his name was Eric until he changed it to something that suited him more).
Recently, in Backchannel, Teller describes the secret of X as trying to solve huge problems and then killing the solutions (and entire projects!) that don’t work.
It’s a great meditation on the Silicon Valley “fail faster” ethos.
Read the whole thing.
Originally published at www.davidincalifornia.com on February 17, 2016.
David Silver 