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Tony Fadell

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02 / evaluation

Today, if you don't have a $5 billion round raised, you're not anything. It's like, okay, well, that doesn't work from a venture perspective.

“Today, if you don't have a $5 billion round raised, you're not anything. It's like, okay, well, that doesn't work from a venture perspective.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / belief

There's unintended consequences, and the unintended consequence was social media happened, and social media, Apple's not a social media company, but it does distribute the apps or make available those apps. And so the way I think about it is we have lots of junk food, and we have an obese nation or obese world because of all the junk food, and it takes us to regulate our consumption to do that and get healthy tools.

“There's unintended consequences, and the unintended consequence was social media happened, and social media, Apple's not a social media company, but it does distribute the apps or make available those apps. And so the way I think about it is we have lots of junk food, and we have an obese nation or obese world because of all the junk food, and it takes us to regulate our consumption to do that and get healthy tools.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / belief

Jeff Bezos says the same thing. I believe in the same thing. You got to fail a few times until you find your way, but you only fail if you stop.

“Jeff Bezos says the same thing. I believe in the same thing. You got to fail a few times until you find your way, but you only fail if you stop.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / evaluation

" And like in the thermostat case, Nest, was we could use AI to learn so it can learn when you're there, when you're away, what temperatures you're like, so you don't have to program it, so you can save energy. So the big pain was being either comfortable or saving money because 50% of your energy bill was in this heating and cooling unit that you hated the interface, you didn't know what it was, you just paid the bill.

“" And like in the thermostat case, Nest, was we could use AI to learn so it can learn when you're there, when you're away, what temperatures you're like, so you don't have to program it, so you can save energy. So the big pain was being either comfortable or saving money because 50% of your energy bill was in this heating and cooling unit that you hated the interface, you didn't know what it was, you just paid the bill.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

07 / recommendation

What's proven is if you properly architect it and have Claude Code go into certain sub-segments, or have Claude help you build the architecture, you modify, refine it, lock it in and say, "Just work on these few things and these more limited-scoped things," yeah, you can make that work. And I think that's the way we have to consider how we use these tools in a product management capability as well: to just say it's all abstract away, it's all going to be better.

“What's proven is if you properly architect it and have Claude Code go into certain sub-segments, or have Claude help you build the architecture, you modify, refine it, lock it in and say, "Just work on these few things and these more limited-scoped things," yeah, you can make that work. And I think that's the way we have to consider how we use these tools in a product management capability as well: to just say it's all abstract away, it's all going to be better.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / prediction

Now it's different with all software products and all these things and many products can go global right away, but marketing, you still got to tell a story. So it just reminds me that even though we've maybe compressed the time for some pieces of the adoption puzzle, because we can distribute faster, doesn't mean the awareness can get accelerated.

“Now it's different with all software products and all these things and many products can go global right away, but marketing, you still got to tell a story. So it just reminds me that even though we've maybe compressed the time for some pieces of the adoption puzzle, because we can distribute faster, doesn't mean the awareness can get accelerated.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / preference

Because we think the technology's in service of the customer, not we're going to jam the technology down the customer's throat, and they're going to figure out how to use it.

“Because we think the technology's in service of the customer, not we're going to jam the technology down the customer's throat, and they're going to figure out how to use it.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / commitment

We had to hang in there with two generations of the smoke detector and a few generations of thermostat before we made the business work, not just make the product work.

“We had to hang in there with two generations of the smoke detector and a few generations of thermostat before we made the business work, not just make the product work.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / evaluation

You really need to start thinking systemically about the benefit that you're bringing to this society as a whole, not just to the business that you're in and trying to bring in whatever revenue you're trying to do because at the end of the day, users will feel that and then I think and will reward that as we see with Apple with privacy and people say, "Oh, they're behind because they're so private and there's this.

“You really need to start thinking systemically about the benefit that you're bringing to this society as a whole, not just to the business that you're in and trying to bring in whatever revenue you're trying to do because at the end of the day, users will feel that and then I think and will reward that as we see with Apple with privacy and people say, "Oh, they're behind because they're so private and there's this.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / evaluation

Because if you try to do data-driven decisions all the way along, you're either not doing a differentiated product because you're taking data from another thing, or you're just getting just bullshit data, right.

“Because if you try to do data-driven decisions all the way along, you're either not doing a differentiated product because you're taking data from another thing, or you're just getting just bullshit data, right.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

13 / prediction

I paid for full self-driving, it's 15 years later, I'm still waiting for full self-driving. So I think we, again, understand what we think we want, but where the technology is and the social adoption and the social trust that needs to be created around that is going to take a lot of time and it's going to take a lot of iterations to get there, and it's especially if you're going to have to pay for it.

“I paid for full self-driving, it's 15 years later, I'm still waiting for full self-driving. So I think we, again, understand what we think we want, but where the technology is and the social adoption and the social trust that needs to be created around that is going to take a lot of time and it's going to take a lot of iterations to get there, and it's especially if you're going to have to pay for it.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / commitment

I'm going to go and build all these businesses that really matter right now. And we're finally getting traction because people are like what AI and oh, more robotics and now, all of a sudden, we're in vogue, and we've been here really working on our product-market fit, working on our marketing, working on version 3.

“I'm going to go and build all these businesses that really matter right now. And we're finally getting traction because people are like what AI and oh, more robotics and now, all of a sudden, we're in vogue, and we've been here really working on our product-market fit, working on our marketing, working on version 3.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

15 / preference

I think that's the most thing is: rebuild, read other things like that, and really hone your craft, make better products, make a better world because the world only gets better by the things we make and what we bring.

“I think that's the most thing is: rebuild, read other things like that, and really hone your craft, make better products, make a better world because the world only gets better by the things we make and what we bring.”
Speaker
Tony Fadell
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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