An entrepreneur with thirty years of experience starting technology companies, Hans Peter Brøndmo now leads Everyday Robots at Google, a science fiction–sounding technology moonshot that aims to build robots that can be as helpful to people in the real world as computers are in the virtual world. Other than founding and selling several tech companies, prior to joining Google, Brøndmo was a senior executive leading new product innovation teams at Nokia in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Berlin, and Finland. He also worked at Apple in Tokyo and at CERN in Geneva. He has served on start-up and nonprofit boards, is the author of a New York Times bestseller, an occasional columnist, and has been a guest lecturer at MIT and the University of Cambridge. He grew up in Norway and did his military service 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle during the Cold War. He performed his undergraduate and graduate studies at MIT. An artist at heart, he has been making pictures since he was nine years old and realized that when he captured light he could, on rare occasions, catch an invisible moment. He is passionate about photography as an art form and about art as a means to better understand the world we live in by asking the important questions that our normal ways of making decisions often don’t contemplate When he’s not wrangling robots, Brøndmo is happiest on a mountaintop or behind a lens.