Nest

“I worked on Nest camera algorithms, and through this experience, we did ship the first deep learning algorithm in the wild in 2016 on Nest cameras.”

“The whole organization was a stepchild for whatever reason, you know, there was cultural mismatch. There was, you know, probably a business mismatch.”

“Oh, for sure. For sure. People keep asking me, what are we going to get? It's like, no, absolutely. It's now's the, I now's the time. If it isn't already happening, I'm actually getting business plans of people who are like, Hey, you know, is this interesting?…”

“We need to flip it. We need to absolutely flip it, and we have to say, and this is what I always wanted to do at Nest, which is, I want to remove displays, and we need to have voice as the number one primary feature, and you build around voice. Then we have ke…”

“I had been so bad with my previous books at putting useful boundaries in place. That I wrote a 150% the length of a book and then had to cut back to get a book. This time around, partly at the suggestion of Tony Fidel, who's a character in the book and was the…”

“So obviously Tony Fadell would be one with nest. And he would, he'd be an outlier.”

“And so we have actually seen both opt-in and engagement that we're getting nearly 75% of all new Nest thermostat customers that install a device are opting into energy shifting.”

“Most of the compute was going to a product called Nest, which was basically GPT-free.”

“When we shipped our first thermostat, we shipped the very first thermostat, we included a very expensive tool inside the package. And it was a screwdriver with changeable bits so that when you got it right out of the, you know, of the box, you could start moun…”

“One of the things that we did is we set up a group, which is the Nest, which is basically our first 50 employees and we worked together with them in, like, collaborative sessions and, like, teaming them up with newer employees in order to sort of, like, togeth…”

“Bosch had this great display where they had, like, 15 different consumer electronics products from the surface to an iPhone to a drone to a Nest, and they all had the same Bosch component sensor, sort of tilt sensor switch or something in them.”

“Because of the smartphone wars, the war between Apple and Samsung and Google and Nokia and Blackberry, a lot of the components that you find in a... Everyone was trying to get a low-cost camera, low-cost accelerometers, low-cost Bluetooth chips and Wi-Fi chips…”

“And when you're connected, you now have the opportunity to sell services. You get to interconnect your componentry to the internet. So think, for example, about a low-cost sensor is sitting out in the field. Now it has unlimited free connectivity into the clou…”

“What I see happening in Frontier now is a humanization of technology, right? Companies are building end-to-end solutions. Even if you're, you know, if you think about the big successes in Frontier, like a Tesla, Nest, Invest an Oculus or Cruz. They're going al…”

“Today Nest is sort of the de facto device that you have in your house if you build a, you know, high-end home, right? They advertise it in the home real estate listings that they have a Nest thermostat in it.”

“Nest and Tony Fidel, you know, that's a totally closed system right now. And the reason that they did that is because they said we need to a hundred percent own the customer experience so that stuff like that doesn't happen.”