Monday, May 13, 2013

How Nest Thermostats Were Born

I bought Nest Thermostat early this year; it's fascinating to see machine learning at works right in your living room.

Even with limited funding Nest still managing to assemble a killer engineering team in the midst of a talent war exploding all across Silicon Valley. “It was a mixture of my old team at Apple, my old professor from CMU and a few folks from Tony’s early days at General Magic twenty years earlier. One guy was a VP at Twitter, one was running Microsoft User Experience. Unlike most startup teams the average age of our team was about 40. I think I was the youngest.



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