Unicorn Podcast Tony Fadell - Inventing The iPod & iPhone, The Problems With The Metaverse & His Biggest Regrets | Unicorn Podcast E4
Tony Fadell is the creator of the iPod, co-creator of the iPhone, and founder of Nest Labs, which was acquired by Google for $3.2 Billion. Named as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2014, Tony believes that instead of building artificial platforms like the Metaverse, we need to focus on building products that fix and improve the real world.
Tony’s first job out of college was such a disaster that it killed all new development in consumer-oriented personal computers for a decade. The next products he built were commercial failures, then he started his own company – a year before the .com bubble burst. But after 10 years he learned – with every team, every product, every disaster – how to design, manufacture, market and sell something people actually wanted.
In this podcast, Tony goes deep on why failure is good, the problems with the metaverse, and the key to work/life balance and he also tells us his biggest regret. We’re so excited to bring you this interview with such an incredible entrepreneur and Unicorn. We know you’ll love this one, if you enjoy the episode all we ask is that you share it online so that we can help more people start and grow a business of their own. Enjoy!
“You only fail if you give up. If you don’t give up and you learn from your mistakes, that’s a normal cycle of learning and it’s okay! Failure sounds like such a harsh word but I don’t see it that way. You only learn what you love to do by doing a lot of things that you don’t like doing.”
Topics
- Reinventing yourself
- Failure
- Overcoming fear
- When to quit
- How to find balance
- Working with family
- How to find a co-founder
- Naming the book
- "Fuck the metaverse"
- Device Addiction
- Steve Jobs deleted Tony's number
- Device moderation
- Do you have any regrets?
- What do you want to learn?
- If you could interview anyone, who would it be?
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https://tonyfadell.com/
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