Astro Teller
Astro Teller
Astro Telleris an entrepreneur, scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 May 1970
believe
I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well.
avid compulsive life nurtured secret spending
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
bothers children four society though trains
I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
bag great
If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.
I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.
bitten constantly paranoid
If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.
buying consider drop factor number people pickup roughly time
Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.
contact faster
The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
future google happen likely physical
If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.
contest people
If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
best people
If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
bodies computing future lives second ways worn
I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
essence time
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
answer built decade google great open problems question
There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.