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Season 2, Episode 3: Nest

Acquired

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The Synergies of Google's Acquisition of Nest

David Wheeler: Google didn't really know what category they were buying when they bought Nest. He says the company tried to hedge their bet and say, where does our next multi-billion dollar innovation come from? "What they ended up buying was a business line and massively overpaying for it," he adds.

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