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7 Jun 2026

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
Episode: Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell
Publisher: Lenny's Podcast

Tony Fadell

What Tony said.

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.