American - Inventor | March 22, 1969 -
I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.
Tony Fadell
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Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say 'screw this.' They hate the products.
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Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.
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In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter.
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Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business.
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We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.'
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I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'
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When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work.
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There are two different types of prototyping. First, the gut sense. You know how far you can take it. Second, you need experts to figure out whether or not it is attainable.
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You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.
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With most tech guys, it's the same outfit every day - they wear their company logo.
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If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC's are investing, it's in people who understand what it takes, who've been through it and have a network of people they can tap and resources to pull together.
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