The iPhone’s Inventor, the Navy SEALs of Payments, & the Encyclopedia of Memes

Here’s everything we published this week.

June 5, 2022

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Happy Sunday!

It’s been another eventful week in tech. Sheryl Sandberg’s out at Meta, Tesla wants its employees back in the office, and New York just passed the US’s first-ever right to repair law.

This week on Every, we’ve got a review of a new book of business advice from the inventor of the iPhone, an interview with the editor-in-chief of the internet’s main meme repository, and a deep dive into payments space.

Let’s get to it!

The Inventor of the iPhone Has Some Thoughts

Evan Armstrong / Napkin Math

“I should write a management advice book” is right up there with “I should start a podcast” on the list of statements in tech most likely to make you say, “Should you, though?” But if we were to list people whose opinions on business building we’d actually be interested in hearing, iPhone inventor and Nest co-founder Tony Fadell would be right up there at the top of the list.

Lucky for us, Fadell has published just such a book, and this week on Napkin Math, Evan (a self-admitted Fadell stan) is digging in. As Evan describes it, Build is an “internal wiki of [Fadell’s] brain,” covering his views on everything from management consulting to the point of PMs to dealing with burnout. Of course, as with any book of business advice, the question lurking just under the surface is: is Fadell’s advice right?

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