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How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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We're Going to Buy a Cell Phone Company and Putting Music on It?

We were all probably three, four months before that thing shipped, because we were under contractoal obligation to ship it. Ye, the contempt with which he announced this project is, if you go back and watsh it, it's very funny. He was in these, in our executive meetings, head and hand, going, i can't take these guys. They're not gettin anything done. And even if do, they can't implement it. We have to do it for them. So then who came down to, are we going to buy a cell phone company, or begoing to make our own? The way we thought about is, we're not buying a

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