I’ve had it wrong my whole career… Astro Teller

@astroteller 👏

@moonshots_pod @astroteller This guy’s great 👍. Very intelligent!!!

@astroteller Starting with the huge problem and bringing the humility to be probably wrong is a rare pairing, and it keeps a team learning fast. I'll try it on my next Mars chapter: name the hard problem first, then let the characters find the tools.

@astroteller Musk companies figured this out years ago.

@astroteller p(Doom) < θ vs. a 'dirty little secret' that changed everything. My popcorn is ready.

@astroteller Equal parts audacity and humility. @astroteller just gave a subtitle to millions of misunderstood entrepreneurs’ lives in five words. Captain of moonshots is really captain of efficiency. Once in a lifetime podcast 🚀

@astroteller I’m not gonna post a cheesy AI post like these other two guys ☝️

@astroteller but will that change your future actions?

@astroteller > they want Successful moonshots?

@astroteller @grok what are moonshots?

@astroteller "We're moonshot busters" - 😁

@astroteller That was a great talk. Very insightful, yet also practical. Thanks @PeterDiamandis for the great line up.

@astroteller OooOooo... audacious l- I like that.

@astroteller when the futurists admit they were wrong, you know the future just overtook the forecast..haha 😃

@astroteller That's very cool, love the WW2 comparison, "yeah... we can get to the moon at a HUGE LOSS" now can we do it on the cheap? profitable? Very cool!

Very well said! Now the challenge for an efficient Moonshot is to actually succeed in getting the attention of those with the capital to invest in it An efficient "crazy idea" Moonshot is usually not intuitively obvious to the investment community which is often chasing a current fad Sometimes it takes a lot of time to get even the most intelligent people to " look through the tube" (Galileo's telescope) It took Bezos a year to raise his first million for Amazon Investors often look for moats. That is obsolete thinking in this age of AI. The only real moat is the depth and breadth of the team's experience and capabilities It's fantastic that the two of you have shown that teams can be of any size with the tools now available and there's no way to guarantee success with a large team or failure with a small (even one-person) team It is immensely satisfying to see XPRIZE crowdfunding efforts being made. Allowing individuals with vision to make incremental small investments completely takes the the legacy investment community, stock markets, stock brokers, investment bankers, and 401K stewards out of the picture Good Show! 🏆

@astroteller @grok what is the most successful business to come out of the Google X moonshot program?

@astroteller Right so companies become angel investors..