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Nest CEO Tony Fadell Steps Down After Tumultuous Two Years At Google (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Tony Fadell is stepping down as head of Nest Labs, just over two tumultuous years after selling the smart-home gadget maker to Google. Fadell will leave Nest immediately and be replaced by Marwan Fawaz, former executive vice president of Motorola Mobility where he served as CEO of Motorola Home, Nest said in a statement. Fadell will still advise Alphabet Inc. and Larry Page, the Google co-founder and chief executive officer of the holding company. Nest took longer than expected to release new products and a smoke and carbon monoxide detector was recalled due to software problems. When the company did release an updated product, the Nest Cam security camera in June 2015, Fadell admitted it had been a "grueling" year. In recent months, Nest employees complained publicly about Fadell's management, while claiming the business had missed sales targets, botched upgrades and delayed future products. Fadell said, "I don't know of any regrets that I have. To do what we do at the level we do it, no one's done it before. So you're bound to make mistakes."
You managed to mention "Indian" four times including the title. "The new male leader at Google" is also descriptive, you could switch it up a little.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
What does his nationality have to do with anything?
Prejudice much?
Hmm, guess racists are too dumb to understand that alphabet Inc owns nest, not Google.
Btw what makes you think he's Indian? Not that that has anything to do with anything.
I guess his contractual obligation is now fulfilled.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Yes, it does. We put George W. Bush in charge of something and that didn't work out too well either.
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
It's nice when you have made your fortune and you can say "Enough" and go start over wherever your passion is, but then life is relative.
Yes, it does. We put George W. Bush in charge of something and that didn't work out too well either.
Well played sir - well played indeed!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
To not support hot water as part of the nest thermostat when they released in the UK because "the number of systems was too complicated" was more than a mistake (and also incorrect) - it allowed significantly inferior products to now dominate the market. I bought the Nest thermostat and love it, but it's completely ruined because of the lack of hot water control too. Yes, the later release fixed that, but that's an acknowledgement that their original analysis was flawed.
I need to replace my mains powered inter-linked smoke alarms too now (several) and was thinking of the Nest offering, but I'm starting to think it's a waste of time given what they just did with Revolv...
Captcha: slavery
Seems like Indian H1B's are very smart, but white males are not; amazing. Who is the puppet master here?
MAKE YOUR DATA ACCESSIBLE FOR MORE THAN 10 DAYS IN THE PAST.
I don't even care about the money I spent on your fancy hardware. I'm not using it, because YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY GIVE ME the SAME DATA YOU COLLECT FOR YOURSELF, in a reasonable fashion.
Kindly f*k off, thanks. I'll just be here engineering a home automation ecosystem that understands the principles of how intelligent people do things, thanks.
PS can I get a refund on this thing? Hell, it's nice hardware, at least just take it back so you can repackage it and sell it to some other sucke^H^H^H^H^H customer cause you're not getting any more of my data... well, at least until you give me that data too, you unbelievable wombats.
I have witnessed his kind of situation often and unfortunately it seems like a real pattern: an Indian gets promoted, and suddenly all key roles in his direct reports go to Indians, often ones that are not that competent (or threatening to the alpha one). Seems like a cultural thing because I haven't seen the same thing with other groups, except maybe the French.
I don't think that happens out of some form of racism, I think it's more a solidarity thing combined with less worries about being overly politically correct.
lucm, indeed.
Every dog has its day?
I read that headline as
Nest CEO Tony Falls Down Steps After Tumultuous Two Years At Google
I instantly got a mental image of Ford falling down those airplane stairs and wondered if anybody caught CEO Tony on camera.