BUILD to Last: Tony Fadell’s No-BS Blueprint for Founders, Makers, and Misfits

From iPods to Nest and beyond, the raw, tactical, and personal lessons on product, leadership, and company-building from one of tech’s toughest builders.

I. Introduction: The Mentor You Didn’t Have, But Definitely Need

In tech, there are two kinds of advice: the sanitized kind you hear on stage at conferences, and the kind you get over whiskey from someone who’s shipped hard things, hired wrong, burned out, built again—and still showed up Monday morning.

Build is the second kind.

Tony Fadell, best known for…