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" There are two different types of prototyping. First, the gut sense. You know how far you can take it. Second, you need experts to figure out whether or not it is attainable. "

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" I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why. "

Tony Fadell

Failure

Now

Two

" When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work. "

" If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand. "

" I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it. "

" I don't look backwards. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I feel really proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish together. But really, where I'm focused is the future and where Nest is going. "

" Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer. "

" I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple. "

Tony Fadell

Doing

Experience

" Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home. "

" People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life. "

" I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen them, my mind has been blown - in a great way. They have all these amazing projects and people that the world doesn't know anything about. I'm like a kid in a candy store - it's an idea factory. "

" It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the iPhone generation look like? I got this bug. It really infected my brain. I kept thinking about it. This could be a cool product that matters and a cool product that has a great business. "

" Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace. "

Tony Fadell

Nest

Alarm

" Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally. "

" You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out. "

" I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?' "

" At the end of the day, customer choice is essential. And we don't make products that compete with Apple, nor make products that compete with Google. Our customers come in both iOS and Android flavors, and I hope our customers can still buy the products they want to purchase wherever they want to purchase them. "

" Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice. "

" If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it. "

" In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter. "

" No amount of data will tell you if a feature should be in the product, because it doesn't exist. You need to have a very clear leader with a clear point of view... otherwise, you get a mishmash of features and stuff that doesn't make a lot of sense. "

" Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn. "

" It's not just about turning up or down the heat, it's about the other experiences that come with turning up or down the heat - what are we doing about energy, what are we doing about your health and safety. "

Tony Fadell

Energy

Safety

" I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not. "

" To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right. "

" You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going. "

" Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business. "

" If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC's are investing, it's in people who understand what it takes, who've been through it and have a network of people they can tap and resources to pull together. "

" I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing. "

" We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.' "

" With most tech guys, it's the same outfit every day - they wear their company logo. "