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Interesting that the first supporting paragraph on the "turmoil" this is causing is Tony Fadell & Bill Maris leaving. IMO Those are red herrings: 1) Fadell w
by aresant 10y ago
Interesting that the first supporting paragraph on the "turmoil" this is causing is Tony Fadell & Bill Maris leaving.
IMO Those are red herrings:
1) Fadell was extremely unpopular at the time of his departure after several missteps and lack of product releases. He was going to be shown the door regardless.
2) Bill Maris explanation is straight forward - he's super rich, just started a family, is sick of being on airplanes and phone calls 24/7 and literally CRUSHED IT as a VC on the weight of his Uber investment alone.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThere's a lot of others though. - Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, is having similar CEO problems as NEST. Word has it Verily has a whole lot of nothing to show for all the money they've blown so far. - Chris Urmson just left the Self-Driving Car program. From my understanding, of whatever the Self-Driving Car program allegedly managed to do (debatable), Urmson was pretty key in them doing it. - Google Fiber just backed out of plans to dig fiber for a whole bunch of cities they said they would, and are now looking at some cheaper wireless broadcast option. Also, I am almost certain that Tony Fadell was actually "fired". Being fired is always phrased as "resigning" when you're that rich. But yeah, NEST has been a paperweight since Google bought it. The only thing they've done is rebranded Dropcam. And apparently ruined the Dropcam team while doing it.