From Nilay Patel's interview with Tony Fadell:<p><i>NP: Two years ago, I actually remember this really distinctly — it was a very motivating Tony quote — you told me that the whole point was to not build products, because products and services will fade away. The point was to build a really great business. That to me was Tony, that was what you guys were doing. But now you sold the business. Why?<p>TF: Well, we’re about creating the business. We still have a long way to go to create this business, and I‘m also not naïve to the fact that we’re going to need substantial resources to fulfill what we set out to do. This is not just spinning up a server and all of a sudden you have scale, and using other people’s infrastructure for software distribution and all this other stuff.<p>TF: We’ve got to fight hand-to-hand combat in retail spaces. We have to go in and literally build tons of infrastructure for customer support and servers and all those things. I want to focus on building the differentiation for our customers, not take a sideline to building infrastructure that’s not customer differentiating. When I’m busy focused on those things, the competition is starting to nip at our heels.<p>TF: I really want to build a great business, and I think this is the best way to build that business. If we would have kept going alone — you see every company wants to be the Nest of something, some unloved category in the home. I wanted to double down, and this is the best way to double down.<p>NP: Don’t say double down. It’s the kiss of death.<p>TF: Okay I won’t say it. I appreciate the advice.</i><p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/13/5305430/interview-tony-fadell-nest-google-acquisition" rel="nofollow">http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/13/5305430/interview-tony-fad...</a>