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Tony Fadell
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Tony Fadell
@tfadell
iPod, iPhone, Nest, Investor & NY Times bestselling Author #BUILD
- Happy 21st birthday iPod!!! You’re now legal drinking age! I’ll toast to that… 🍻😂
- Most people (and companies) need a near-death experience before they can really change.
- These plastic models are truly the first iPods. Around May or June of 2001, we 3D printed & machined these prototypes of the first gen iPod during the mechanical & industrial design process. They were just shells, but they were important.
- 52% of cars sold in Norway are EVs « The Oil Industry Is Finally Being Affected By Norway's Electric Vehicle Adoption »
- I thought building the iPod, iPhone & Nest was hard. Never realized writing a book would be harder. #BUILD launches May 2022. @HarperCollins @HarperBusiness @PenguinUKBooks #adviceencyclopedia #coverreveal Pre-Orders & Email Updates📚: tonyfadell.com
- I remember the day when Steve called me to the Board Room to personally sign a $4B purchase order for Samsung Flash for the Nano. “Are you sure we are ordering the right stuff? It’s going to work, right?” It was the biggest single order Apple had ever placed at the time.Replying to @tfadellthe same strategy around the iphone and nand memory. I remember the long nights in late '05 negotiating that deal with TimC, JeffW & occasionally SJ. Ballsy and sheer genius.
- I want to do something special to say thank you to everyone who has supported BUILD, so I am giving away a FREE signed copy of the book. Simply tag a friend to enter. Tag as many as you want! We will announce the winner Wednesday Jan 25. Good luck everyone!
- EXACTLY @TechCrunch! Apple is taking baby steps because right now that is all we can count on to deliver successfully. This is a solid first effort by Apple focusing on real benefits to users (ex. Siri). My two cents… Today's AI LLMs are mostly glorified demos for the reallyApple’s AI, Apple Intelligence, is boring and practical — that’s why it works tcrn.ch/3RpxJTZ
- Some advice in the new year - ask yourself where you want to go, who you want to work with, what you want to learn, and who you want to become. From there, hopefully, you’ll start to understand how to build what you want to build.
- “In Q1 alone, Meta’s Metaverse/Reality Labs operated at a loss of $2.96 billion, and last year, Reality Labs lost over $10 billion.” The iPhone didn’t even cost $3B to build, let alone $13B… F&@k the Metaverse!
- Learn by doing.
