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Stanford Moonshot Club presents Catching Moonshots: A Chat with Astro Teller

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Main Quad Rm 420-041
Jan
19
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RSVP  to join us with Eric "Astro" Teller, CEO of Google X Labs, as we discuss fostering innovative solutions and actualizing ideas found from unlikely places. In this chat, Teller will share the tools he's used to help innovators make their moonshot ideas, from the Google Glass to Waymo's self-driving cars, reality. 

 

More on Astro Teller:  Dr. Astro Teller is currently Captain of Moonshots (CEO) of X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory for building magical, audacious ideas that through science and technology can be brought to reality. Previously, Astro was the co-founder of Cerebellum Capital, Inc, a hedge fund management firm whose investments were continuously designed, executed, and improved by a software system based on techniques from statistical machine learning. Astro was also the co-founder and CEO of BodyMedia, Inc, a leading wearable body monitoring company that was sold to Jawbone in 2013.

 

As a respected scientist and seasoned entrepreneur, Teller has successfully created and grown five companies and holds numerous U.S. patents related to his work in hardware and software technology. Dr. Teller’s work in science, literature, art, and business has appeared in international media from the New York Times to CNN to NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Teller regularly gives invited talks for national and international technology, government, and business forums on the subjects of innovation and the future of intelligent technology.