Astro Teller

Before X, Astro co-created and led several companies, including BodyMedia, a wearable body monitoring company; Cerebellum Capital, a hedge fund management firm whose investments were based on statistical machine learning; Zivio Technologies, an intellectual property holding company; and Sandbox Advanced Development, a technology/design consultancy and creator of its own products and business spinouts. Astro co-created two conferences: The Gathering, an un-conference for next-generation leaders; and Solve for X, an annual celebration of moonshots, bringing together the top innovators in the world to give advice to some of the world’s bravest tech explorers. Astro's work in science, technology, literature, and business appears around the world in media, conferences, universities, journals, and books. He regularly gives talks on the subjects of innovation, creativity, and intelligent technologies. Astro is also a writer. In 1997, Random House published his first novel, Exegesis . He has since published a second novel, Among These Savage Thoughts , sold a film script to Paramount, and placed many op-ed pieces and journal articles. His third book, Sacred Cows , is a non-fiction work co-authored with his wife, Danielle Teller .