Mo Gawdat, founder of One Billion Happy and former Chief Business Officer at Google’s X, spent years working in technological innovation. CURT NICKISCH: Last year [2018], Mo Gawdat left Google to launch a new moonshot: a startup with the goal of helping one billion people find happiness. So we worked on a model of happiness for 12 years together, and you know, it’s an engineer’s view of happiness that is informed by a gentleman that had happiness innate in him.