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Channels with Peter Kafka

What can you learn from the guy who built the iPod?

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The markets are crashing - and that includes both Netflix and the media companies that wanted to be Netflix. What’s next? Wall Street analyst and investor Rich Greenfield weighs in. Then, Recode’s Peter Kafka has a conversation with Tony Fadell, who helped bring the iPod and iPhone to life, and then built and sold Nest, the smart home company. His new book is “Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making.” Fadell talks about how developing a product begins with creating its “story,” and why he fought so hard to include a $3 screwdriver in Nest thermostat boxes. He also touches on some high-profile failures, unintended consequences, and why he doesn’t want to dance in the metaverse. Featuring: Rich Greenfield (@RichLightShed) Partner & TMT Analyst at Lightshed Partners Tony Fadell (@tfadell), Tech Investor & Entrepreneur, author of "Build" Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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this is recode media peter kofka that's me i hope you're well i hope. I hope you're dodging COVID. I hope if COVID

1:11.9

finally came for you that it's easy and passes quickly. Okay, keep saying that. I think it's

1:18.5

going to keep happening. Anyway, this week we've got two very fun, very useful, very different

1:24.3

chats. First up, I talked to Wall Street analyst Rich Greenfield about the ongoing

1:28.6

market meltdown, what that means from media companies and some of the tech startups he

1:33.1

invests in sort of on the side. We recorded this on Wednesday as the market was imploding in real

1:38.1

time, so that's fun. We also discussed Netflix's move into ads and whether Elon Musk is really

1:44.1

going to buy Twitter. I'll just spoil that now. Rich Greenfield does not know if Elon Musk is really going to buy Twitter because no one knows if Elon Musk is really going to buy Twitter. And then we're on the 22-minute mark. I've got a longer chat with Tony Fidel, who many of you know is the guy who helped build the iPod and then the iPhone. Some of you also know is the guy who founded Nest. The smart home company sold to Google for $3 billion. Tony's got a new book out. It's called Build. It's part memoir, part instruction manual, people who want to do cool things like running companies. This one's all over the place because Tony Fidel is all over the place. He's got lots of opinion, so it's fun to talk to him. But I try to focus it a bit on things he learned that might help you, the listener in your career, even if you're not going to build an iPod or a $3 billion company. I should note that I talked to Tony before Apple announced it was finally going to kill off the iPod, the thing he helped build, which explains why I didn't ask about that.

2:35.2

Because I would ask him about that. I'm reasonably good at this. I would ask him a really obvious question.

2:39.8

Okay. Enough of me rambling. Here's me talking to Rich Greenfield.

2:43.8

I'm here with Rich Greenfield, who's been on a bunch. He covers media and technology for

2:49.7

Lightshed partners. Did they get the name right? Yeah, I mean... Lightshed partners. Yeah. I'm not sure what's going to be left of this for these companies, but sure, I technically cover them while they're still around. I asked you a couple days ago, could you come on the podcast, just sort of give us a state of the market collapse. And you said, sure, and then the market

3:07.5

has continued to collapse. We're recording this Wednesday afternoon. Hopefully we will still be employed

3:12.1

tomorrow. Rich, from your perspective, what does this crash in the overall market, but then

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