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Fadell: Corporate rejection of good ideas is the best startup catalyst
“If at some point you just run into a wall, like I did at General Magic, you leave and go do it, right? Because that's what happens in most big companies is people with value and have the right how could I say energy to literally say, I think this should be rig…”
Tony Fadell Jul 25, 2022 ▶ 10:08 Tony Fadell: Why You Can't Be a Solo Founder; Mercenary vs. Missionary Operators | 20VC #910 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Fadell: General Magic Built the iPhone 15 Years Too Early
“Followed my heroes out to Silicon Valley at a company called General Magic, who was the Mac team creating the iPhone just 15 years before the iPhone came out. We were doing it too early.”
Tony Fadell Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 1:27 Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Fadell: General Magic sold only thousands of units despite $500M+ investment
“General Magic was a huge one. It maybe sold a few thousand units, you know, after a five hundred million dollars or more investment in the nineties.”
Tony Fadell Jun 6, 2022 ▶ 38:55 Tony Fadell: Product Marketing Lessons I Learned from Steve Jobs | 20VC #884 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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