A few weeks ago we asked you our listeners. If you had all the money in the world, what

problem would you try to solve? And we got a ton of responses.

I think the biggest problem that needs to be solved on this planet is the extreme poverty that exists.

I'd really solve the freshwater problem.

Getting carbon out of the atmosphere.

High quality education for everyone.

Wipe out student loan debt.

And if I had all the money in the world, I would solve homelessness.

We asked you that question because we were about to meet with someone who has access to a lot of money to find solutions for these

kinds of problems. My name is Astroteller. I'm the captain of moonshots at

Alphabet's Moonshot Factory, which is called X.

So we asked our listeners if they had a ton of money, what problem would they want to solve?

And they said, tuberculosis and homelessness and

and world peace, hunger, education was a big one. A lot of people said climate change. How do you

pick what you pick? There's a lot of problems out there. We are trying things in education, in poverty, in systemic racism.

We're trying to find ways to go after the different problems that build up into climate change, ocean health, there's so many problems

in the world and we're working on any of them where we can find a moonshot.

Everything is fair game for us.

These moonshots are things like shot, everything is fair game for us.

These moonshots are things like self-driving cars, delivery drones,

salt-based energy storage, and of course, AI. But over the past year at X there have been layoffs, increased

scrutiny into the budgets, and more questions about whether or not these

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