Tony Fadell: Tujuan Menjual Nest Bukan Uang, Tapi Visi

Tony Fadell menceritakan alasannya terkait keputusan menjual Nest kepada Google. Dalam wawancaranya dengan The Verge, ia menyampaikan bahwa uang atau pendapatan besar bukanlah hasil akhir yang diharapkan. Dengan bergabung ke dalam Google, Fadell jadi memiliki kesempatan untuk mengembangkan Nest lebih jauh lagi. Ia ingin mewujudkan visinya bersama Nest dan bergabung dengan Google menurutnya adalah pilihan yang tepat.

For me, this isn’t about a financial transaction. It’s about the future and what we can do together, so I’m really excited about taking the vision. Because they really like the vision that we have and the product roadmap that we have and they can implement it. They’re going to allow us to — Nest can remain Nest.

And we don’t make products that compete with Apple, nor make products that compete with Google. Our customers come in both iOS and Android flavors, and I hope our customers can still buy the products they want to purchase wherever they want to purchase them. I hope they see it as a positive thing where we’re headed, because we’re going to be able to invest even more.

We’re going to continue to make our products iOS compatible, as well as Android compatible — as we always have.

Tony Fadell juga menyampaikan bahwa dia akan tetap berada di Nest dan mengembangkan produk-produknya dengan dukungan dari Google. Ia menjelaskan bahwa Google mengakuisisi semua hal dan semua karyawan yang ada di Nest, tidak hanya para pemimpinnya (Tony Fadell dan Matt Rogers). Google melakukan hal tersebut karena tidak ingin mengakuisisi sebuah bisnis tanpa team hebat yang selama ini ada di dalamnya.

They don’t want just a business, they want a great team that can lead the business so they can scale beyond. Taking the business and having just a normal team manage the business — that doesn’t let them scale. They want the whole leadership team coming over who can run this stuff.

And we’re not going anywhere — we’re going to stay in our offices, we’re going to have our brand, everything is going to remain very much like you see it today. Post-close, it’s not going to change as dramatically as you think.

[source site_name = “The Verge” site_url = “http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/13/5305430/interview-tony-fadell-nest-google-acquisition”][/source]