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 […]
Nest Labs
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 […]
Kleiner Perkins’ Trae Vassallo Reboots
Trae Vassallo’s early investment in Nest Labs, maker of Internet-connected devices like thermostats and smoke alarms, has placed her in the ranks of today’s top venture capitalists. But Vassallo, along with a handful of other longtime Kleiner Perkins general partners, was recently cut from the firm’s investment committee in a sweeping reorganization first reported by Fortune. Perhaps […]
Tony Fadell: Patent the Hell Out of Everything
Earlier this week, at the Le Web Paris conference, Nest Labs founder Tony Fadell shared his unambiguous advice when it comes to patents. File for them early. File for them often. Then file some more. As a longtime exec at Apple, where Fadell was instrumental in creating both the iPod and iPad, Fadell is accustomed to both […]