Steve Jobs and Tony Fadell: Inventing the Future

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🗓️ 14 March 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this episode, an intimate history of two pocket-sized devices that changed the world, and the two men who created them: Steve Jobs and Tony Fadell. Jobs famously co-founded Apple. In the late 90’s, when the company was failing, he hired a young engineer and designer named Fadell, who created a little device that became known as the iPod. It not only turned Apple’s fortunes around, it transformed the music industry and the experience of listening. Fadell’s next assignment was the iPhone, which changed the nature of communication itself. After leaving Apple, Fadell went on to found Nest Labs, a company that has begun to alter the technology of the home. You’ll hear Tony Fadell’s fascinating personal story, told with all the passion and enthusiasm he brings to his game-changing inventions. And you’ll hear Steve Jobs, speaking as a young man (in 1982) about what it takes to innovate. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2016

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0:00.0	Madame, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
0:08.6	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another
0:14.4	chance.
0:15.4	It all was so clear.
0:16.4	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
0:19.7	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.
0:27.0	Every day I wake up and decide. Today I'm going to love my life.
0:34.0	Decide.
0:39.0	My advice is if they don't break your leg once when you go in that place stay out of there. And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for,
0:46.3	but boy you better not miss them.
0:48.4	This is what it takes, a podcast about passion, vision and perseverance from the Academy of
0:58.5	Achievement's Audio Vault.
1:00.3	I'm Alice Winkler. Just as hydrogen and oxygen in the right combination
1:06.8	creates something altogether new, or Hazellitz and chocolate if you prefer a
1:12.4	Nutella metaphor.
1:14.2	The two men we have in this week's episode
1:16.9	turned the world upside down when they got together.
1:20.7	In this episode, Steve Jobs and Tony Fidel.
1:25.0	They spoke to the Academy decades apart,
1:28.0	and yet their paths merged at one pivotal point in time
1:32.0	into a single story, the story of the iPod and the iPhone.
1:37.0	So first to Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, of course, who was 26 years old
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