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Source(google.com)Eric Teller grew up in Evanston. His paternal grandfather was physicist Edward Teller of hydrogen bomb fame. His maternal grandfather was Gerard Debreu, a Nobel economist. Mr. Teller's father, Paul Teller, taught the philosophy of science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His mother, Chantal DeSoto, was a clothing designer and buyer for Sears Roebuck & Co. and later taught gifted children.
Today Mr. Teller is accomplished in his own right. He runs Google X, Google Inc.'s secretive facility in Silicon Valley that has produced such potential breakthroughs as Internet-outfitted eyeglasses and a self-driving car. His title is captain of moonshots. He goes by the name Astro.
“He's a brilliant technologist,” says David Andre, who met Mr. Teller 20 years ago when both were studying artificial intelligence as undergraduates at Stanford University and Mr. Teller was a rollerblading longhair. “But what he does better than anybody I've ever met is 'dominoing.' Not just logical facts. Everyone can do that. But thinking farther ahead in research and business chess than anyone I've ever seen.”
Mr. Teller, 42, is wealthy now, too. While in Pittsburgh, after completing his doctorate in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in 1998, he founded BodyMedia Inc., which created wearable products that record health data. He sold it last month to San Francisco-based fitness-monitoring device maker Jawbone for more than $100 million.
Google doesn't talk much about Google X—not about its budget or headcount and certainly nothing about its works in progress—and the Mountain View, Calif.-based company declines to make Mr. Teller available for an interview. Mr. Teller, who lives in Palo Alto, Calif., doesn't go into detail about his projects even with close friends other than to say occasionally that he's seen something incredibly cool.
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But during a 90-minute speech at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, in March, he disclosed a few things. His mission, he said, is “moonshot thinking,” or tackling problems that are “uncomfortably ambitious, that defy logic.”
“Why shoot for the moon?” he said. “It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better. When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.”
He mentioned Google Maps. About a year and a half ago, Google X researchers made the software capable of mapping indoor spaces as well. It's been hard, he said: “Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.”
He called Google X “a bit more like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory than a classic innovation company.” He called its personnel “Peter Pans with Ph.Ds.”
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Mr. Teller joined Google in 2010 as director of new products. By then, he had returned to Stanford as an instructor and had created five startups, including a hedge fund in San Francisco. Friends say he is in his milieu at Google X.
“When we were kids, we'd talk about Xerox Parc and Bell Labs and how amazing it must have been to be there at the time,” says Adrian Belic, a childhood friend who is a documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles.
Mr. Teller grew up watching little, if any, television, friends say. He still finds TV distracting and avoids it, except for watching World Cup soccer every four years. When he tunes in, he watches shows on Netflix.
His leadership, like his intelligence, was obvious early, recalls Mr. Belic, who was co-captain of the Evanston Township High School soccer team with Mr. Teller. “The dinner conversation at the Tellers was mind-blowing,” he says. “The napkins would come out, the sketches would start and mathematical equations would begin. Astro would try to dumb it down for me later. But he'd always say his younger brother, Zander, was the smart one.”
His adopted name has nothing to do with space travel, by the way. After spending his freshman year of high school in California with grandfather Edward Teller, who was working at the University of California-Berkeley, he returned to Evanston in 1985 and got a flattop so he could be as cool as the guys he had seen there. His friends thought the haircut looked like AstroTurf. Shortened, the name stuck.
Only his oldest friends know him as Eric, says Roko Belic, Adrian's brother and a fellow filmmaker, who is another of Mr. Teller's pals. “When I first saw him at college, he pulled up in this old, beat-up Toyota that had Astro from the Jetsons painted perfectly on the door.”
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