{"id":489903,"date":"2010-03-30T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7359"},"modified":"2010-03-30T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T18:42:00","slug":"tony-fadell-%e2%80%9cgodfather-of-the-ipod%e2%80%9d-turning-to-cleantech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489903","title":{"rendered":"Tony Fadell: \u201cGodfather of the iPod\u201d Turning to Cleantech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Apple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7362\" title=\"Apple\" src=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Apple-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Another high-powered techie has turned to the green side.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Fadell, \u201cThe Godfather of the iPod,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/29\/godfather-of-ipod-severs-final-ties-with-apple\/\">is leaving Apple<\/a> to work with consumer greentech companies, The New York Times reports.\u00a0<span id=\"more-7359\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fadell told The Times&#8217; Bits Blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My primary focus will be helping the environment by working with consumer green-tech companies. I\u2019m determined to tell my kids and grandkids amazing stories beyond my iPod and iPhone ones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The nexus between silicon valley techies and green tech has always been strong but recently the two industries seem to be sharing the same talent pool.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, Geoff Tate, formerly of AMD and Rambus, <a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2010\/03\/geoff-tate-to-take-reins-at-nanosolar\/\">took the CEO spot<\/a> at Nanosolar<\/p>\n<p>Fadell was among the first to come up with the idea of a music player with a hard drive and he brought the idea to Real Networks before turning to Apple in 2001, The Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>The rest is history.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/MMP9cr97UBI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another high-powered techie has turned to the green side. Tony Fadell, \u201cThe Godfather of the iPod,\u201d is leaving Apple to work with consumer greentech companies, The New York Times reports.\u00a0 Fadell told The Times&#8217; Bits Blog: My primary focus will be helping the environment by working with consumer green-tech companies. I\u2019m determined to tell my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}