Tony Fadell

8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 20, 2022 by Tony Fadell · across every show →

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May 20, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Fadell's investment firm Future Shape prefers backing startups with two co-founders
“And that's the kind of companies we love to invest in when they really have a co-founder, not too many. No, no more than three, hopefully just two. It's hard when it's only one, but having that, those co-founders that can work together when one's up, pull the …”
Tony Fadell May 20, 2022 ▶ 28:12 Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
May 20, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andy Rubin pitched Android to Apple before selling it to Google
“I got a couple of calls from Andy Rubin at the time, who I worked with at General Magic, working on Android before Android was bought by Google. And so that was really like, Steve, we should listen to this.”
Tony Fadell May 20, 2022 ▶ 23:45 Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
May 20, 2022
Assertion Supported
Fadell built a secret Windows iPod project despite Steve Jobs' opposition
“And we actually had, I'd bring it up and Steve was like, over my dead body. And so I still created a skunkworks program in the back.”
Tony Fadell May 20, 2022 ▶ 14:49 Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
May 20, 2022
Insight
Writing pre-launch mock press releases best establishes essential product constraints
“Everything is better when it has constraints. So you money, time, number of people, and the technology you're going for. But the best way to do the constraints, what I do, and this is all the story of why, and the, and you have to have a story for it, is to wr…”
Tony Fadell May 20, 2022 ▶ 17:12 Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
May 20, 2022
Insight
Truly necessary hardware products create an incredible barrier to competitor entry
“Really you have to go back to first principles and go, why are you doing this? And is this absolutely necessary because the friction is so high? But if it is absolutely necessary, that is an incredible barrier to entry. And it really can set you apart because …”
Tony Fadell May 20, 2022 ▶ 20:47 Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
May 20, 2022 negative
Opinion
The first-generation Apple iPhone functioned terribly as an actual telephone
“The iPhone was the greatest thing except for a phone, right? Cause the phone really sucked. Cause we were learning, right? By figuring out what to do with how to make good cameras even.”
Tony Fadell May 20, 2022 ▶ 25:22 Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
May 20, 2022 negative
Opinion
Google's culture lacks resilience because it never faced a survival crisis
“And the culture they created was one that was born out of abundance. And the abundance has not stopped. It started and it continued. It was always up and to the right. They've never had a near-death moment.”
Tony Fadell May 20, 2022 ▶ 31:27 Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
May 20, 2022
Insight
Disruptive version-one hardware products require gut intuition over consumer data
“You have to trust your gut. For V ones. For the disrupt, first disruption for the version one. Many, many opinion-based decisions.”
Tony Fadell May 20, 2022 ▶ 19:15 Legendary iPod & iPhone Creator Tony Fadell Shares His Design Secrets · Joe Lonsdale
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