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Tony Fadell

What Tony Fadell thinks about innovation

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Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Tony Fadell has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingA model can produce version two of a product that already exists, but the genuinely new version one still has to be made by people.

    Their wordsBecause an opinion-based thing on highly innovative, differentiated stuff, it doesn't have a model for that. There's not that stuff in there. You got to You still need the very version one to be done.

    ↗Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)youtube.com 15th of 23 in this recording

  3. Our readingIncumbents are unseated by a fundamentally different product, never by better features or better marketing.

    Their wordsI invest in the deep technologies that are going to unseat the incumbents because it's going to change the market or the product in such a dramatic way that customers will choose this.

    ↗Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)youtube.com 21st of 23 in this recording