FWIW, I remembered reading about management issues at (Google) X during his time running Project Loon and dug up the article: http://www.recode.net/2016/8/29/12

FWIW, I remembered reading about management issues at (Google) X during his time running Project Loon and dug up the article: http://www.recode.net/2016/8/29/12663630/google-x-alphabet-moonshot http://www.recode.net/2016/8/29/12663630/google-x-alphabet-m... Sources describe most of X’s public projects — Project Loon, drones, robotics and wind energy kites — as rudderless. [...] Mike Cassidy, who stepped down from Loon, ran the team “like a fire drill,” a former employee said.