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Teller: Innovation labs must spend capital disproving hypotheses, not proving them
“Audacious enough that we'll try almost anything, but then humble enough that we're honest right after we start out on each of these investigations that we're probably wrong and that we need to spend our money figuring out that we're wrong rather than trying to…”
Teller: Alphabet's X is not structured to scale products to billions
“We are not the right place to move something from, yeah, we have something special here to it's ready in a really thoughtful, responsible way to serve a billion people a day.”
Teller: Alphabet X shut down Project Foghorn over $15-per-gallon floor
“This project was called Foghorn. Like, that felt like a real save the world moment. It was actually working. And we could not convince ourselves we were going to get it cheaper than about 15 dollars gallon of gas equivalent. And that's just not going to save t…”