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by throwaway_nest 1509 days ago
> When Nest acquired Dropcam, a large number of the Dropcam employees left. Tony Fadell then went on to publicly disparage the Dropcam employees as being "not as good as we hoped" saying "unfortunately it wasn't a very experienceded team" ( https://www.businessinsider.com/nest-ceo-tony-fadell-has-dro... ) Predictably, that's a great way to drive away the rest of your knowledgeable employees and make the company toxic for hiring.

^^ This.

Aamir Virani, who was the co-founder of Dropcam, has his take on this here: https://aamusings.substack.com/p/who-lives-who-dies-who-tell... (also https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1522280960984707072.html)