It's not just about turning up or down the heat, it's about the other experiences that come with turning up or down the heat - what are we doing about energy, what are we doing about your health and safety.
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I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.
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If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand.
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In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter.
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There are two different types of prototyping. First, the gut sense. You know how far you can take it. Second, you need experts to figure out whether or not it is attainable.
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Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.
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Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home.
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I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen them, my mind has been blown - in a great way. They have all these amazing projects and people that the world doesn't know anything about. I'm like a kid in a candy store - it's an idea factory.
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With most tech guys, it's the same outfit every day - they wear their company logo.
