Savannah Goodman discusses Google's operational approach to partnering on 24/7 carbon-free energy initiatives.
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“I think one of the things we've learned at Google is jumping right to the, like, 10 X solution doesn't always work. We have X for that. That's kind of the moonshot factory, but for a lot of the sort of core use cases, it's really important to define a bite-sized piece that we can test, iterate, fail fast, move quickly on, and then scale to that next stage.”
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