Highlights - Leaving the Nest
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Company sells to Google for $3.2 billion after pursuing a vision to change the home at global scale, positioned as hardware software and services that tailor products country by country. Strategy focuses on iterating product by product to remove specific inconveniences and prove each device works now. Privacy practice remains product-centric and promises transparency with users asked to opt into data collection. Future focus includes moving into the connected car and backing deep technology plays that take years to pay off.
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