9 Quotes & Sayings By Tony Fadell

Tony Fadell is the founder of Nest, an Internet thermostat that went on to become one of the most successful consumer electronics products in history. Nest is now sold throughout the world and has been installed in homes, offices, and data centers. It has won several awards including MIT's Technology Review's Invention of the Year award, Fast Company's Best New Product innovation award, and Forbes' Top 10 Innovation. Tony is also the founder of Xobni, a content management system for professional email Read more

Xobni has been used by organizations such as NASA, The White House, The United States Military Academy at West Point, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, Zappos, Google Labs, IBM Research, UIUC Library System and others.

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I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why. Tony Fadell
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I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of i Pod and three generations of i Phone later, I decided to leave Apple. Tony Fadell
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Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world. Tony Fadell
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I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte. Tony Fadell
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Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home. Tony Fadell
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I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it. Tony Fadell
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If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it. Tony Fadell
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Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer. Tony Fadell