Hey Google, What’s a Moonshot?: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo, by Thomas Haigh | January 2019 | Communications of the ACM
▻https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/1/233518-hey-google-whats-a-moonshot/fulltext
For Alphabet today, two years of revenue would be over $200 billion. Yet its “moonshot captain” had to kill what he claims was a highly promising project, just because an initial investment of $200 million was unworkable. Poor Astro was three zeros and one comma away from being able to live up to that ridiculous job title.
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