Anthony Michael Fadell (born March 22, 1969) is an American engineer, designer, entrepreneur, and investor. He was senior vice president of the iPod division at Apple Inc. and founder and former CEO of Nest Labs.
Fadell joined Apple Inc. in 2001 and oversaw all iPod hardware, software, and accessories development. He is known as the "father of the iPod".[1] As the co-creator of the iPhone, he also worked on the first three generations of the iPhone and oversaw all iPhone hardware, firmware, and accessories development from March 2006 to November 2008.
In May 2010, he co-founded Nest Labs, which announced its first product, the Nest Learning Thermostat, in October 2011. Nest was acquired by Google in January 2014 for $3.2B.
Fadell has authored more than 300 patents and was named one of Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World" in 2014. In 2016 Time named the Nest Learning Thermostat, the iPod and the iPhone as three of the “50 Most Influential Gadgets of All Time".
^Dilger, Daniel Eran (May 11, 2017). "iPod-Father Tony Fadell speaks at Computer History Museum's iPhone 360". AppleInsider. Retrieved June 3, 2019.
Anthony Michael Fadell (born March 22, 1969) is an American engineer, designer, entrepreneur, and investor. He was senior vice president of the iPod division...
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approach but pitted the Macintosh and the iPod team, led by Forstall and TonyFadell respectively, against each other in an internal competition. Forstall...
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streamlined version of Mac OS X, codenamed purple, to run on the ARM chipset. TonyFadell, who then led the iPhone team said "It was a competing set of ideas,...
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descent (Greek Orthodox Arab Christian); won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. TonyFadell, Lebanese American inventor known as "one of the fathers of the iPod"...
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interviews with Marc Porat, Andy Hertzfeld, Joanna Hoffman, Megan Smith, and TonyFadell. Magic Link Motorola Envoy Levy, Steven (April 1994). "Bill and Andy's...
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included Alex Alben; the first Chief Privacy Officer of Washington State; TonyFadell, the inventor of the iPod; musician Daniel House; and Philip Rosedale...
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started to gather a team of 1,000 employees led by hardware engineer TonyFadell, software engineer Scott Forstall, and design officer Jony Ive, to work...
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automotive industry crisis, with car companies nearing collapse, Apple SVP TonyFadell floated to Jobs the idea of buying General Motors on the cheap. The idea...
round was extended for an additional $18 million raised in January 2021; TonyFadell was among the private investors and joined WiTricity's advisory board...
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