Leaving the Nest
summary
Nest sells to Google for $3.2 billion after two years on the US market with the Learning Thermostat and Nest Protect smoke alarm, and is now expanding into the UK and Europe; the acquisition buys scale, engineering and distribution resources so hardware plus software products can be localized (heating/cooling, certifications, installation), data stays used only to improve Nest products with opt‑in for future changes, the Nest brand and teams remain intact, and the company stresses perseverance after earlier startup failures.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:40Selling Nest to Google
- 4:21Nests vision
- 6:28Google Nest
- 8:21The Connected Home
- 10:16Why Google
- 12:49Privacy
- 13:56Making great experiences
- 16:00Failure
- 17:54Whats next
- 19:38What keeps Tony up at night
