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Tony Fadell: The Nest Thermostat Disrupted My Life

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But the technology that I needed to make it happen—reliable low-cost communications, cheap screens and processors—didn’t exist yet. This 2010 prototype of the Nest thermostat wasn’t pretty. This needed to be an easy DIY project, a quick upgrade. Nest Gets Googled. In 2014, Google bought Nest for $3.2

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