X, the moonshot factory

X, the moonshot factory

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X is a moonshot factory.

X is home to inventors, makers, scientists and entrepreneurs, connected by a shared optimism that technology can make the world a better place. We love the challenge of the almost impossible. We invent and launch “moonshot” technologies with a dream of tackling some of the world’s largest problems. We call ourselves the moonshot factory, because we’re trying to build just the right amount of structure to help us systematize innovation.

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We love a good problem.

This is our blueprint for X moonshots: We start with a large problem in the world that if solved, could improve the lives of millions or even billions of people. Then we propose a radical solution that sounds impossible today, almost like science fiction. Lastly, we look for a technology breakthrough that exists today; this gives us the necessary hope that the solution we’re looking for is possible, even if its final form is five to ten years away and obscured over the horizon.

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We believe innovation is a team sport.

We bring together people from a wide variety of backgrounds and life experiences to approach problems from multiple perspectives. At X, kitesurfers, philosophers, and machinists work alongside fashion designers and aerospace engineers. Xers are makers, whose technology skills are secondary to their intellectual flexibility; we’re curious students for life.

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