The Moonshot Podcast
What if the keys to solve the world’s hardest problems – food security, energy resilience, the digital divide – were already within our grasp?
Welcome to The Moonshot Podcast, where we go behind the scenes at X, The Moonshot Factory, to celebrate 15 years of Google’s innovation laboratory. Hosted by Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots, this series gives you unprecedented access to the radical ideas and fearless inventors working to build a future we want to live in.
Explore real-world moonshots—from self-driving cars to AI-powered disaster prediction—and discover the messy, exhilarating journey of creating breakthrough technologies with the potential to reshape our world.
Some ideas will succeed. Some will fail. But every moonshot moves us forward.
Subscribe now to The Moonshot Podcast, a Blanchard House production for X, The Moonshot Factory.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 17
- Years Active
- 2025
Deep Dive: David Guerena on the Future of Agriculture
In the sixth installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive series, X’s Captain of Moonshots, Astro Teller, discusses plant breeding and the future of agriculture with Agricultural Scientist, David Gu…
01:06:46 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
Deep Dive: Jeff Dean on Google Brain’s Early Days
In the fifth installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview series, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with Google DeepMind’s Chief Scientist Jeff Dean for a conversation …
00:58:14 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
The Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive: Andrew Ng on Deep Learning and Google Brain
In the fourth installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview series, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with Andrew Ng, the founder of Google Brain and DeepLearning.AI, fo…
00:51:28 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Deep Dive: Catie Cuan on Dancing and Living With Robots
In the third installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview series, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with Dr. Catie Cuan, robot choreographer and former artist in reside…
00:41:54 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Deep Dive: André Prager on Prototyping at Wing
In the second installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview series, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with André Prager, former Chief Engineer at Wing, for a conversatio…
00:51:02 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Deep Dive: Sebastian Thrun on Waymo’s Early Days
n the first installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview series, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with Sebastian Thrun, co-founder of the Moonshot Factory, for a conve…
00:35:04 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Episode 10: Prototyping The Future, live from SXSW 2025
Astro joins an all-star cast of inventors, futurists and creatives for a live conversation about radical innovation on-stage at SXSW 2025. These pioneers and problem-solvers pull together the threads…
01:01:18 |
Mon 12 May 2025
Episode 9: Supersenses
What if, rather than making you distracted, your smart device helped you be more present?
In this episode, we revisit the early days of Google Glass: a bold Moonshot that opened up new ways of seein…
00:45:59 |
Mon 05 May 2025
Episode 8: Powering Up
Energy might just be the ultimate moonshot – because if we can make it affordable, abundant and dependable long-term, it could improve life for all 8.2 billion people on Earth. In this episode, we fo…
00:41:14 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Episode 7: Fires, Floods and Future-Proofing
Natural disasters will keep coming — but what if we could stay one step ahead? That’s the mission of Bellwether, a moonshot working to build a “crystal ball” for the natural world. Their team is unit…
00:38:51 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
Episode 6: Trash to Treasure
What if waste wasn’t the end of the story – but the start of something new? In this episode of The Moonshot Podcast, we explore Delta, a Moonshot to help feed the millions of Americans facing food in…
00:53:59 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
Episode 5: Living With Robots
Robots are at the heart of sci-fi, visions of the future, but what if that future is now? And what if those robots, helping us at work and at home, are simply an extension of the tools we’ve used for…
00:59:05 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
Episode 4: Feeding The World
Agriculture is the world’s oldest industry – and it’s racing to meet one of the newest and biggest challenges of our time: how to feed a growing global population that will soon hit 10 billion people…
00:46:43 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
Episode 3: Machines That Think – The AI Moonshot
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping everything - but how did we get here? Dive deep with Astro Teller into the origins of Google Brain, meeting Andrew Ng and Jeff Dean, two of AI’s early pioneers. T…
00:45:59 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Episode 2: Essential Connections
Nearly 3 billion people still don’t have a reliable internet connection. In this episode of The Moonshot Podcast, Astro Teller dives into X’s decade-long mission to bring fast, reliable and affordabl…
00:48:12 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
Episode 1: Driving The Future
Fifteen years ago, the world thought self-driving cars were impossible - even the experts doubted it. Today, they’re on the road. In this inaugural episode of The Moonshot Podcast, join Astro Teller …
00:53:38 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
The Moonshot Podcast Trailer
Premiering March 10th!
The Moonshot Podcast chronicles the untold stories of innovation - both highs and lows - from 15 years inside Google’s Moonshot Factory. Go behind the scenes with the invento…
00:01:00 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
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