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Nest CEO Tony Fadell Steps Down After Tumultuous Two Years At Google (bloomberg.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new dept.

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."

4 of 35 comments (clear)

  1. Two years? by jcr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I guess his contractual obligation is now fulfilled.

    -jcr

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  2. Re:Ever since Google has that Indian CEO ... by Motherfucking+Shit · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, it does. We put George W. Bush in charge of something and that didn't work out too well either.

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  3. Made his money, on to the Next adventure by justcauseisjustthat · · Score: 2

    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.

  4. ATTN: Nest by Mystic+Pixel · · Score: 2
    Don't care who is in charge. New boss, old boss.

    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.