Nest – Opportunity Grows https://www.opportunitygrows.com Tracking the Green Revolution Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:18:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Tony Fadell discusses Nest https://www.opportunitygrows.com/2014/02/02/tony-fadell-discusses-nest/ https://www.opportunitygrows.com/2014/02/02/tony-fadell-discusses-nest/#comments Sun, 02 Feb 2014 19:58:33 +0000 https://www.opportunitygrows.com/?p=499

Here’s an excellent interview with Tony Fadell of Nest where he discussed the ways Nest can help consumers save energy. Even more interesting is how Nest is being paid by electric power companies to help smooth out power spikes.

Kevin Rose does an excellent job with the interview and it’s worth checking out. They discuss a wide variety of topics including outsourcing to China, Kickstarter and other challenges facing hardware startups. You can follow Fadell on Twitter here.

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Nest was founded by Tony Fadell, one of the Apple guys who worked on the original iPod, and now it’s been acquired by Google for a whopping $3.2 billion. This article sums up the transaction and offers some insight on the future of this company and products like the thermostat that we’ll be able to control in the future.

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