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Tony Fadell

Engineer and designer; led the iPod and iPhone teams at Apple, founder of Nest Labs

United States · b. 1969

Tony Fadell is an American engineer, designer and entrepreneur. He was senior vice president of the iPod division at Apple and worked on the first three generations of the iPhone, then founded Nest Labs, the connected-thermostat company acquired by Google in 2014.

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Question What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?

Learn by doing, not learn first, then do. The way you discover what it is you like to do in life is by doing first, then learning about it.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 5 February 2016 source ↗

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