Soon thereafter, he joined Google Ventures (now known as GV) as an Executive-in-Residence. He would eventually join Alphabet's "Moonshot Factory" X (formerly Google X), and it was during his time there that the idea for Chronicle arose. You transitioned to X [formerly Google X], and in recent months, an idea that you have been pursuing, called Chronicle, was graduated from X. It gave me an opportunity to meet and talk to several of the now Alphabet leaders, at Google, Google X, and Google Ventures to understand what their future paths were. In that tour of the new Alphabet, I learned about what X's mission was, their concept of moonshot thinking, and how the “moonshot factory” worked.

Source: Forbes May 21, 2018 13:30 UTC