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A Legacy Of Disruption: Tony Fadell, Principal, Build Collective

Talking all things entrepreneurship with Tony Fadell, the mind behind multiple generations of theiPod and iPhone, who now focuses on startups that will change the world at Build Collective.

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Tony Fadell wants us to build cool shit again

The design icon behind the iPod, iPhone and Nest is now making big bets on climate technology and helping the world build better businesses.

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Curiosity will teach you how to build: Tony Fadell

iPhone and iPod co-creator Tony Fadell on how to build companies and products that change the world

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Exclusive insights from Tony Fadell on ChatGPT and the AI gold rush

What's going to matter in the future is AI — not the metaverse — says Tony Fadell, principal at investment firm Build Collective.

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The Lightship L1 is a caravan built for EVs that can also power your home

The self-propelled trailer reduces drag to extend range, comes loaded with solar panels to charge your EV, enough battery capacity to power your home, and sleeps up to six people.

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Legendary Apple designer lends his touch to new Ledger Stax crypto wallet

“We need a user-friendly — no, a ‘user-delightful’ — tool to bring digital asset security to the rest of us, not just the geeks,” said Fadell.

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iPod creator Tony Fadell designed a $279 credit card-sized device for storing your crypto

French startup Ledger debuted its new hardware crypto wallet, the Ledger Stax. It resembles a smartphone but is roughly the same size as a credit card and, at about 45 grams, weighs less than an iPhone.

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Crypto’s iPod Moment: Former Apple Designer Takes On Hardware Wallet

Today at the Op3n conference in Paris, Ledger presented the device called Ledger Stax. It enables users to manage cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) while retaining full control of the assets with private passwords known as keys.

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Ledger’s latest crypto wallet taps iPod designer in bid to boost accessibility

Ledger, a security-focused firm that sells crypto hardware wallets, has partnered with the designer behind the iPod, Tony Fadell, in hopes of creating an easier, more accessible way for users to secure their crypto assets.

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Tony Fadell Is Trying to Build the iPod of Crypto

The product guru made Ledger’s new hardware wallet — a tiny vault for digital cash — flashy and fun. Plus, with this gadget you’ll never get FTX’d.

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Former iPhone Leader Joins Arm to Bring More Chips Into Your Life

Tony Fadell, former leader of Apple's iPod and iPhone projects, joins Arm's board to help it expand from smartphones into PCs, servers, cars and more.

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Smartex sews up $24.7M to put smarter eyes on textile manufacturing

Smartex just raised a couple of bolts’ worth of cash, sowing up a round of funding to bring smart tech to fabric manufacturing. The hope is to be able to detect textile defects in real time.

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Today in Apple history: Apple puts 1,000 songs in your pocket with first-gen iPod

Introduced on this day in 2001, the iPod quickly became a cultural phenomenon.

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5 New Business Books for Dreamers and Achievers

From the leader of the teams that created the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Learning Thermostat comes a book full of knowledge and advice on leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success.

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Impossible Foods has a big new offering in the works: filet mignon

Founder Pat Brown said at MIT Technology Review’s ClimateTech event that his company’s steak prototype is “pretty damn good.”

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iPod inventor Tony Fadell says EU requirement for USB-C iPhone is the ‘right thing’ as he sees Apple as a monopoly

Fadell thinks it’s time for USB-C iPhones.

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Tony Fadell wants to see iPhone move to USB-C

The inventor of the iPad believes that Apple should move the iPhone to USB-C, claiming that it is "the right thing" to do.

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Tony Fadell: Brains behind the iPhone, iPod and one of the world’s leading inventors

Tony Fadell joined Jack Tame.

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Lessons on Innovation from iPod and Nest Creator Tony Fadell

Listen to Tony’s appearance on the Next Big Idea podcast below, or read a few key highlights.

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Carbice Now Open in Atlanta’s Historic West End

Carbice CEO and Founder Baratunde Cola said, “This facility will bring significant economic impact to this West End community, The City of Atlanta, and the State of Georgia. It will allow us to employ and train the next generation of technicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs from this community.”

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Lumafield raises $35M, announces speedy updates to its affordable desktop CT scanner

Lumafield today announced a $35 million Series B, and new features for its desktop X-ray computed tomography platform that aims to provide engineers and designers with unparalleled access to their products.

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Tony Fadell’s fund backs Paris-based Edda with $5.8 million to offer alternative to Excel for PE investors

Edda combines deal flow, portfolio, LPs and business community management into one product, offering a unique solution for professional investors.

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Mantle is 3D-printing manufacturing tooling

Mantle is launching a new series of $350,000 machines that can 3D-print the mold inserts that are used to produce injection-mold plastics. It’s hard to overstate how important this will be — I caught up with the company’s founders to find out how and why this tech is going to put a serious dent in the speed-to-market for manufacturing.

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The Next ‘iPhone Moment’ Will Arrive, Eventually. Hurry Up Already

It may seem now like the iPhone was a sure thing. But 15 years ago at launch, its success was far less certain. Tech insiders acknowledge they can rarely tell if something will be a hit until development is pretty much done.

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The Father of the iPod Reveals 1 Critical Lesson From His Mentor, Steve Jobs

Three essential elements of all good stories.

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The iPhone’s Creators Reveal the Consequences They Never Expected

Not even Apple’s own execs—with front-row seats for the development of the iPhone’s key features—quite knew how they would change the world.

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Carbon Nanotubes Enable No-Compromise Thermal Interface Materials

Carbice Corporation has made it possible to create an effective cooling system that combines the properties of both liquid and solid thermal interface materials (TIMs) in a single solution.

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“Tech must solve a real need”: the iPod inventor Tony Fadell on virtual reality consumerism

The engineer turned investor reflects on the industry’s biggest missteps, from cryptocurrencies to augmented worlds.

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Lex and Tony Talk

Lex and Tony discuss the iPhone, iPod, Nest, Steve Jobs, Design, and Engineering

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The Co-Creator of the iPod and iPhone on Radical Innovation (with Tony Fadell)

A veteran entrepreneur and investor explains why a good story must be at the heart of a successful disruptive innovation.

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Stuff meets… Nest founder and father of the iPod, Tony Fadell

We spoke about the early days of Apple and Nest and how doing stuff wrong leads to success

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This new technology reveals classic iPods from the inside out

For Tony Fadell, Lumafield’s CT scanner helps bring back priceless memories. For product manufacturers, its X-ray vision could solve long-standing problems.

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iPod Creator Tony Fadell Isn’t Buying the Metaverse Hype

We need to fix the problems that already exist on today's social platforms, he says.

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Here’s How Apple’s iPod Lasted for 20 Years

Commentary: The gadget survived music streaming, rival players and the iPhone.

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Tony Fadell’s Advice For Building The Next Big Thing

FutureShape Principal Tony Fadell speaks with Emily Chang about his new book Build

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Legendary Designer And Engineer Tony Fadell On The ‘Why’ Behind The ‘What’

Even if you don’t know Tony Fadell by name, you definitely know the products he’s designed; in fact, chances are you have one in your pocket right now if you’re an iPhone user.

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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

The Nest founder tells of years in pursuit of a thermostat he actually likes

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The man behind the iPod, iPhone and Nest Thermostat does some spring cleaning.

Tony Fadell cleans out his garage for TechCrunch.

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Don’t Call Tony Fadell an Asshole—He Prefers ‘Mission Driven’

In his new book, Build, the founder of Nest gets into how to be an effective leader, why the metaverse is bunk, and when quitting is a virtue.

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How big companies kill ideas — and how to fight back, with Tony Fadell

Stories and lessons from his new book, Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

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The Next Hurdle in Europe’s Energy Transition: Being More Enticing Than NFTs

The Next Hurdle in Europe’s Energy Transition: Being More Enticing Than NFTs

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In one fell swoop, Sweep bristles up $73 million in Coatue-led Series B round

Building from success to success, France's carbon management platform Sweep has raised $73 million in a Series B round, now counting $100 million to its credit.

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Menlo Micro switches on an opportunity for its tech to be in every device you touch

If you’re not an electrical engineer, it’s hard to understand quite how big of a deal the company’s innovation is — and it’s hard to overstate how important this tech may turn out to be.

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What iPod inventor Tony Fadell says he learned from Steve Jobs

The titanic, albeit controversial legacy of late Apple (AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs drew renewed interest this week when the tech giant became the first company to reach a market capitalization of $3 trillion.

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World Wise Web: The iPod

In 2001, Apple’s iPod revolutionised how we listen to music - inspired by inventor Tony Fadell's love of DJing.

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Influencers with Andy Serwer: Phil Hutcheon & Tony Fadell

In this episode of Influencers, Andy is joined by DICE Founder & CEO Phil Hutcheon along with Tony Fadell

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Carl Pei’s Nothing brings Karan Johar, Yuvraj Singh, others on board as investors

Nothing recently raised $50 million as a part of its Series A extension and has also partnered with Qualcomm.

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The original iPod ‘prototype’ was an Apple design to prevent leaks

Panic revealed the early design in honor of the iPod’s 20th anniversary

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Inventing the iPod: How ‘really big risks’ paid off for Apple

For the 20th anniversary of the iPod, we talk with the inventor of Apple's iconic music player, Tony Fadell, who reminisces about working with Steve Jobs and the success of the device.

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Apple’s iPod was one of the biggest risks the company ever took

Tony Fadell says that the iconic iPod was a giant risk for Apple to take, but Steve Jobs had promised that Apple would "go the distance" on the product's lineup and future.

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iPod success story was down to Steve Jobs keeping his word, says Tony Fadell

The iPod success story was far from assured, even after it was launched, says Tony Fadell, the man dubbed “father of the iPod.”

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iPod Inventor Tony Fadell: ‘M1 Macs Are Absolute Innovation’

Tony Fadell, Future Shape principal, iPod inventor and iPhone co-inventor, sits down with Emily Chang to talk about how far Apple has come over the past two decades, where it’s headed next and why tech and sustainability are the next big challenges.

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Investing in our future and leaving the planet better than we found it

The inventor of the iPod, the iPhone, and Nest thermostat is focused on making the world a better place for his kids (and all of us) to live by investing through Future Shape, his investment and advisory firm.

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Nothing raises another $50M

The round follows the February announcement of a $15 million Series A.

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DICE Announces ‘Up to $122 Million’ Series C, Adds iPod Inventor Tony Fadell to Board

Ticketing and music-discovery platform DICE has announced the completion of an “up to $122 million” funding round.

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Tony Fadell on Learning To See, Telling Stories, & Being A Troublemaker

It’s not often you get to see through the eyes of someone who created a product that you and hundreds of millions of other people use, hundreds of times a day, every single day, and have for a decade or more.

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20VC: Tony Fadell “The Father of The iPod” on Mentors, Self-Doubt, Vulnerability, His Relationship To Money, Why Entrepreneurs Need To Be Coachable, Why VCs Must Be More Direct & Why The First Trillio

Tony Fadell, often referred to as “the father of the iPod,” is currently Principal @ Future Shape, a global investment and advisory firm coaching engineers and scientists working on foundational deep technology.

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London-based Nothing secures £1M on Crowdcube in 54 secs, unveils transparent TWS earbuds

Nothing, a London-based tech venture from ex-OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has shared a glimpse of its upcoming true wireless stereo (TWS) product ‘Concept 1.’

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Firms backed by Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Gates have funded an electric motor company that slashes energy consumption

Sometimes the smallest innovations can have the biggest impacts on the world’s efforts to stop global climate change.

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Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Gates Bet On Electric Motor Startup

California-based Turntide Technologies raised $80 million for its motors that reduce electricity use

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Mantle launches precision metal Additive Manufacturing technology aimed at the tooling market

Mantle, an Additive Manufacturing startup based in San Francisco, California, USA, has launched its TrueShape™ technology, a proprietary AM process to make high-precision metal parts.

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Allbirds is investing in a plant-based leather substitute, plans faux-leather shoe drop in December

The sustainability focused shoe maker Allbirds has taken another step to green its supply chain with a small $2 million investment in a new company called Natural Fiber Welding.

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Metal 3D printing startup Mantle launches out of stealth with $13M in funding

Additive manufacturing has been a popular buzz phrase for decades now.

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Want to invest in Nothing? Carl Pei opens investment opportunity to community

Carl Pei, co-founder of OnePlus, knows a thing or two about communities.

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For Tony Fadell, the future of startups is connected and sustainable

Three years after a failed bid at retiring, the Nest founder reflects on the future shape of tech.

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Watch Whisperer Hodinkee Clocks $40 Million Investment

As Tom Brady, LVMH Luxury Ventures and TCG step in, Hodinkee founder Benjamin Clymer will cede CEO duties after more than a decade at the center of the watch world

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John Legend and Natalie Portman want you to try wearing fungus instead of leather

Natalie Portman and John Legend are joining a group of venture capitalists and unnamed fashion brands backing MycoWorks, a company that just raised $45 million to commercialize its technology that makes a fungal-based biomaterial that can replace leather.

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Mmhmm, Five-Month-Old Video Startup Making Virtual Meetings More Fun, Raises $31 Million Pre-Launch

As Phil Libin speaks his Zoom background changes rapidly, cycling through images of his past trips to Japan before settling upon a looping animation of a wooded landscape crafted in paper.

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Menlo Micro, a startup bringing semiconductor tech to the humble switch, is ready for its closeup

Menlo Micro's switch has big implications for everything from 5G to quantum computing

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How this startup CEO raised $100 million from Tony Fadell, Amazon, and BMW for a new energy-saving motor that everyone thought was impossible to build

A startup called Turntide offers a glimmer of hope that the tech industry can ride in with new technology that will help reverse climate change.

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Sunnyvale startup, with help of Amazon and Nest founder, aims to replace the world’s electric motors

A Sunnyvale startup with technology it says can be used to replace all the electric motors in the world scored $33 million in new funding on Thursday from Amazon.com Inc., Nest founder Tony Fadell, BMW and others.

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iPod inventor Tony Fadell: ‘I literally had a decade of failure’

Before becoming known as the “father of the iPod,” Tony Fadell said he was rejected by 80 venture capital investors when trying to raise funding for his own technology business.

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iPod inventor Tony Fadell on Finding the New “New” Thing

Tony discusses why China might have a “last-mover advantage”, the qualities he look for in entrepreneurs, and how to discover the next game-changing technology.

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This Leather Jacket? It Came From a Petri Dish

In a lab in New Jersey, the scientists at Modern Meadow are creating the materials of the future.

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A startup backed by iPod designer Tony Fadell just emerged from stealth with $18.5 million to bring breakthrough batteries to market in massive quantities

A trove of startups are working on breakthrough batteries that could store 20% to 40% more energy than traditional cells. Here, a lithium-ion battery factory in France.

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With Tony Fadell’s help, Advano is building battery components to power an electric future

Using scrap silicon as its feedstock, a New Orleans-based company called Advano has raised $18.5 million to manufacture battery components to enable more powerful, smaller and longer-lasting batteries.

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iPod inventor, Thiel Capital among backers of battery company Advano in new funding

Battery company Advano announced on Tuesday that it raised $18.5 million in its Series A funding round.

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Apple’s iPod went from idea to product in a single year, according to the ‘father’ of the iconic music player

Apple's iconic iPod went from idea to prototype to product in a single year, according to the man credited with leading the creation of Apple's wildly popular music player.

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Ex-Apple SVP Tony Fadell says the original iPod was designed, engineered, and released within the same year

In a story shared by the CEO of Stripe, Patrick Collison, Tony Fadell describes the timeline of the original iPod.

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Tony Fadell — On Building the iPod, iPhone, Nest, and a Life of Curiosity (#403)

Tony Fadell, sometimes called “the father of the iPod,” is an active investor and entrepreneur with a 30+ year history of founding companies and designing products that profoundly improve people’s lives.

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3D Hubs manufacturing platform expands to France, backed by iPod inventor Tony Fadell

Amsterdam-based 3D Hubs, the online manufacturing platform, today announced its entry into the French market, with new offices opening in Paris.

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3D Hubs moves into French manufacturing market with support from iPod inventor Tony Fadell

3D Hubs, the online manufacturing platform, is entering the French market with the support from Tony Fadell, the iPod inventor, Nest founder, and head of Future Shape investment firm.

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The Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame: Nest Thermostat

Why a former Apple engineer built not just a temperature controller but a “Trojan horse into the home”

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How One Startup Is Trying to Help Car Dealers Weather Hailstorms

Understory uses on-site sensors to offer insurance for hail damage.

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Who Are the Most Successful Entrepreneurs? The Middle-Aged

Sure, youth and innocence are great. But what if experience is even greater? We might get more innovation if we let the elders take the lead.

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Tony Fadell answers questions about iPod development on Twitter

Tony Fadell — known as the “Father of the iPod” — took the day to answer on Twitter a few questions about his work at Apple with one of the most successful products in technology history.

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Simbe raises a $26M Series A for its retail inventory robot

San Francisco-based robotics startup Simbe just announced a $26 million Series A.

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Tony Fadell on Leaving Silicon Valley to Help Build a Healthier Society, Online and Off

In both his work and his life, Tony Fadell constantly imagines Version 2.0 (if not 3.0, or 4.0 and beyond).

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Nest Founder Says Plastic Apologists Are ‘Lying’

Tony Fadell, iPod inventor, iPhone co-inventor, Nest founder and Future Shape principal, is on a warpath against plastics.

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Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged

It took an entrepreneur to reimagine the mundane home thermostat as an object of beauty — and then to make a fortune based on that vision.

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Parental control app developers band together to demand an API from Apple

A large group of developers who make parental control apps have banded together to demand that Apple come up with a technical solution that will allow them to continue to work on the iPhone.

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Phil Schiller says Apple pulling third-party screen time apps due to privacy abuses, as Tony Fadell calls Screen Time ‘a rush job’

Apple has systematically removed many time-tracking / parental control over the last year, leading to a bevy of upset developers whose businesses have been crippled, and even an antitrust lawsuit.

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Brainstorm Design 2019: Disruption by Design

Fortune's Clay Chandler interviews Nest founder, iPod inventor, and iPhone co-inventor Tony Fadell, at Brainstorm Design in Singapore.

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Buoyant Diamond Foundry Polishes Image Of Lab-Grown Diamonds In Paris

Ahead of the April launch of a collaboration with Dover Street Market, jewelry industry disruptor Diamond Foundry is poised and ready to capture more of the new generation of evolved luxury consumer, thanks to its carbon-neutral process and fashion-forward positioning.

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Tony Fadell: Want to Design for a Sustainable Future? Think Different

The man who helped invent the iPod and iPhone and co-founded the smart home company Nest was traveling around the world with his family and kept seeing the same problem: trash.

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The Podfather’s watch packs a hefty $49,000 price tag

Tony Fadell invented the iPod and hundreds of millions of people bought one. But he can’t expect those kinds of sales with his latest creation – a watch costing $48,800.

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The smartwatch Tony Fadell helped design will cost $48,800

And you thought that Apple Watch was expensive.

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Ressence’s Type 2 solar-powered mechanical smartwatch costs more than a car

Watchmaker Ressence is known for its expensive, minimal-designed mechanical watches, but now the company is taking its biggest step towards smartwatch functionality with its new Type 2.

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Ressence’s Type 2 smartwatch gets April release date and $48,000 price tag

Its solar-powered e-Crown lets you set two time zones, and swap between them on the fly

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Ressence’s $48,800 connected mechanical watch arrives in April

The Type 2 melds classic timekeeping, modern tech and an absurd price.

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Technology to disrupt the world

INK Conference 2018 brought the deep-tech godfather Tony Fadell to India for the first time! Listen in as, in an interview with CEO Lakshmi Pratury, the inventor of iPod, co-inventor of iPhone, and founder of Nest, Fadell shares insights into the birth of disruptive products and ideas, and what goes into making an entrepreneurial journey successful.

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World, meet Tony Fadell 2.0

In a rare interview, deep-tech godfather Tony Fadell talks going greener in 2019, the Indian tech-preneur space, and the realities of productive failure and success

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Fraud detection startup CashShield secures $20M Series B led by Temasek and GGV

Online fraud detection startup CashShield, whose clients include Alibaba and Razer, announced today that it has raised a $20 million Series B led by Temasek Holdings and returning investor GGV Capital.

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Tony Fadell Wants to Disrupt Silicon Valley

With his firm Future Shape, the creator of the iPod and the iPhone seeks to dethrone tech’s giants.