Success stories in technology are often told as smooth, upward arcs. An idea forms, a product launches, and the world follows. For students trying to understand how innovation actually works, these stories can feel inspiring but incomplete.
The more instructive lessons often come from what went wrong rather than what went right.
That reality surfaced during a talk at Stanford University marking the engineering school’s centennial year. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google and Alphabet Inc., spoke candidly about the failure of Google Glass and what he would approach differently today.
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The audience included students eager to build companies of their own, many of whom were searching for prac
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