Last week, we witnessed something fairly remarkable. A major Alphabet executive — Nest Labs CEO Tony Fadell — publicly shamed the cofounder and employees of Dropcam, the connected camera company that Nest had acquired in 2014 for $555 million. In an article in The Information, Fadell said that he didn’t think Dropcam cofounder and CEO […]
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StrictlyVC: November 13, 2014
Good day, dear readers! We have a longer-than-usual column today, so we scrapped some other sections, but much like the Terminator, they will be back. (Psst, web visitors, here’s an easier-to-read version of today’s email.) —– Top News in the A.M. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday moved to advance a bill that would usher […]
Unrest at Nest
Sitting on stage last week at a San Francisco conference, Greg Duffy, the 28-year-old co-founder and CEO of Dropcam, which makes Internet-connected video cameras, fielded questions from an audience of startup founders. It should have been a time to celebrate. After all, last June, Duffy sold Dropcam to Nest Labs for $555 million. As the […]
My Best Friend, Google
In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist Farhad Manjoo wrote, “One way to think of Google is as an extremely helpful, all-knowing, hyper-intelligent executive assistant.” And it’s only getting smarter. As Sundar Pichai, top banana at Google’s Android division, tells Manjoo of the near future: “If I go and pick up my kids, it will be good […]
StrictlyVC: September 19, 2013
Top News in the A.M. Apple CEO Tim Cook: Sorry for any confusion, people, but “we never had an objective to sell a low-cost phone.” Dropcam, the $50M Startup That Should Keep ADT Awake at Night Dropcam is watching you. To date, the four-year-old startup has raised $47.8 million for its HD wireless home-monitoring cameras […]
Dropcam, the $50M Startup That Should Keep ADT Awake at Night
Dropcam is watching you. To date, the four-year-old startup has raised $47.8 million for its HD wireless home-monitoring cameras that allow consumers to watch the kids from the office, glimpse which neighbor isn’t picking up after his dog, or catch break-ins. Greg Duffy, Dropcam’s 26-year-old cofounder and CEO, won’t disclose how many of the company’s […]