Director of Build Collective and author of the bestselling BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Tony Fadell is an active investor and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience founding companies and designing products that profoundly improve people’s lives. He is the director of Build Collective, a consultancy and investment firm that focuses on high-tech startups, which is currently assisting over 200 startups. He is the founder and former CEO of Nest, the company pioneering the “Internet of Things”. Fadell was SVP of Apple’s iPod division and led the team that created the first 18 generations of iPods and the first three generations of iPhones. Over the course of his career, Fadell was the author of over 300 patents. In May 2016, TIME named the Nest Learning Thermostat, iPod, and iPhone as three of the “50 Most Influential Gadgets of All Time.” He is the author of the bestselling BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.
An innovator’s guide to making projects worth doing
- Innovation that Changes the World: From a Decade of Failure in Silicon Valley to the Creation of the iPod
- Responding to consumer needs and wants: the foundation for developing revolutionary products
- Changing what you do without reinventing everything from scratch: an “old school” guide to innovation
- Strategies for effective leadership and team management to fuel innovation, experimentation and continuous improvement