Astro Teller
4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 13, 2026 by Astro Teller · across every show →
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Jul 13, 2026 negative
Jul 13, 2026
Teller: X teams must author kill criteria when going full-time
“We insist on just called kill criteria. So if your project has moved past the investigation stage, now a few of you are going to be full-time on this thing. We're tracking the costs. It's probably not public yet. There might only be three or four of you full-t…”
Jul 13, 2026
Teller: Creating moonshots is easy by dumping money on smart people
“Taking moonshots is really easy. Super easy. If you don't care about efficiency, you find really high energy people who think they're right and are pretty smart. You dump a bunch of money on them and you'll get some moonshots or anyway, some like fairly big co…”
Jul 13, 2026
Teller: De-risk the hardest element before building supporting infrastructure
“In this extreme situation, we can see that if you built the pedestal, you're half done, but you're really zero percent done at burning down the risk.
[1649] Pablo Srugo: That's right.
[1650] Astro Teller: The point of a testable hypothesis, especially at X, …”