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Businessweek Profiles Google X
Brad Stone feature for Businessweek, “Inside Google’s Secret Lab”: While Teller runs the day-to-day operations at X, he reports to Brin. (“Sergey is Bruce Wayne, and I’m Lucius Fox,” Teller says.) Colleagues say that since Page became CEO in late 2011, Brin spends most of his time immersed in the technical details of several projects at Google X.
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