Tony Fadell

Yeah, the whole organization was a stepchild for whatever reason.

There was cultural mismatch.

There was probably a business mismatch.

I think if Nest was around and alive today like it was, it would have a whole different thing when like Google and Gemini and Google IO was what yesterday or the day before.

um you know it would have been one of the i think some of the center pieces of what you could do because ai needs context ai needs a lot of context and in a home you want to make everything very seamless um and the way you get best context is by having sensors

properly placed around the home that don't necessarily invade privacy, but allow you to pick up a lot of comings and goings and who's who in the room and your voice and these kinds of things.

Audio, I should say, not voice, to be able to give AIs context so that you can have a anywhere assistant that really knows what's going on.

Oh, for sure.

For sure.

People keep asking me, it's like, no, absolutely.

Now's the time if it isn't already happening.

I'm actually getting business plans of people who are like, hey, you know, is this interesting?

Do you want to invest in it?

You want to come and help us, you know, build it?

This is like Nest 2.0.

You know, they're trying to do stuff like that at Ring.

I don't think very, you know, not very privacy focused, but that's what they're trying to do.

That was our vision in the beginning, to tell you the truth.

That's how we were like, you're going to need lots of context.

Because we remember, the Nest Learning Thermostat wasn't the Nest AI Thermostat.