Post by Insight Partners

Tony Fadell helped build the iPod, the iPhone, and the Nest thermostat. These days, he runs Build Collective, a deep tech fund with ~150 companies in its portfolio. At ScaleUp:AI '25, he sat down with Managing Director Deven Parekh to talk about what AI is getting wrong, what the next hardware wave actually looks like, and why the data center buildout might be more overstated than the market thinks. “People are not going to be paying $200 or $1,000 a month for AI Agents. They’re going to have to run closer and closer to you.” Full session recap: https://lnkd.in/gidxb3Fs