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The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

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Jon Gertner 04.15.14 6:00 AM Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad. Or maybe it's something good. At Google X, it's sometimes hard to know the difference. Teller is the scientist who directs day-to-day work at the search ­giant's intensely private innovation lab, which is devoted to finding unusual solutions to huge global problems. He isn't the president or chairman of X, however; his actual title, as his etched-glass business card proclaims, is Captain of Moonshots—"moonshots" being his catchall description for audacious innovations that have a slim chance of succee

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