Matt Rogers (Nest) - Tackle Projects Others Don't Want

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2014

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Nest Co-Founder Matt Rogers explains why careers can be made on taking on the challenges and projects unloved by others. Rogers discusses what he learned working at Apple on the original iPod and iPhone, the importance of not chasing the money when raising capital, and how he and Nest Co-Founder Tony Fadell went about building an innovative consumer electronics company.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.4	Today I have the incredible pleasure of introducing Matt Rogers, who's the co-founder
0:23.1	and VP of Engineering at Nest, which is one of the fastest growing tech companies in the
0:27.7	Valley and is pioneering new technology for smart homes of the future.
0:33.4	Matt is responsible for all product development at Nest, and prior to Nest, Matt was responsible for iPod software
0:39.8	development at Apple.
0:41.4	Join me and welcoming Matt.
0:47.3	How's it going?
0:50.3	Solid.
0:51.8	Excellent.
0:52.8	So grad students, I saw undergrad. How many undergrads? Most. Excellent. So grad students, I saw undergrad.
0:55.0	How many undergrads?
0:56.0	Most.
0:57.0	Excellent.
0:58.0	So I was in your shoes not that long ago, by the way.
1:01.0	So I graduated undergrad in 04.
1:04.0	So 10 years.
1:06.0	A lot could happen in 10 years, by the way.
1:09.0	Actually, in fact, your entire career could happen in 10 years
1:12.6	if kind of the star is aligned in the right way.
1:14.6	And I think I'll talk about a few of those things.
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