Teller: Graduating X projects typically spin out with 10 to 50 employees
Astro Teller · Tries 1,000 ideas & kills most—how X built Waymo & Google Brain | X (Alphabet) · PMF Show · Jul 13, 2026 · at 31:40
Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at Alphabet's X, describes how projects transition out of X into standalone businesses.
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“If you do that for six years and you've burned down a lot of the risk, if we're actually at the place where like, well, there's a sizable chance this actually could be a Waymo someday. Then it graduates from X and you know, often this is sort of on the order of 10 to 50 people who leave to set up this new business.”
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