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#294 – Tony Fadell: iPhone, iPod, and Nest

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Semi Dormant Genius?

I think there's a semi dormant genius amongst millions. So like Raspberry Pi is revealing that a little bit. It's probably, I wouldn't be surprised if it's several million Raspberry Pi's that have been sold. And it's kind of this quiet storm of genius brewing of engineers who don't get to hear it because they're not organized. Okay. When did you first start to dream about building your own things? Well, in high school, there was a company that a friend of mine founded and I was the second employee called Quality Computers. In 12th grade freshman year of college, I wrote a hard drive optimizer for the Apple II.

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