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The next great moonshots won’t come from Silicon Valley alone

At the Rails, home to Alphabet’s “moonshot factory,” I once found myself standing in line for Indian food with Sergey Brin in front of me and Astro Teller behind me. The Rails was no ordinary tech building. It was a place where ideas were birthed, killed, and sometimes launched into the stratosphere. Think Waymo and Wing.

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