Then she went on to become one of three co-founder of Google's moonshot R&D unit Google X (now called merely "X"). Today, she's the Chief Technology Officer at Nest.
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Google X founder explains 'The Valley of Death' in product development (GOOG, GOOGL)
There's a reason why all sorts of breakthrough technologies developed by researchers go ignored.
Having been both a university researcher and a product developer, she has an interesting perspective on why it's so hard for research breakthroughs to wind up in products.
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