Book review – Build, an unorthodox guide to making things worth making”

I picked up “Build, An unorthodox guide to making things worth making,” by Tony Fadell following a podcast recommendation by a colleague who is focused on product management.

It sounded like a nice easy summer read: It was. But it was also excellent.

Fadell obviously has incredible pedigree as the co-creator of the iPod, iPhone and Nest and his more recent activities as the founder of the Build Collective, so his thoughts were always going to be worth a scan, but I found the book to be refreshingly straight forward in tone and advice.

Conversational, authentic and packed full of Fadell’s life experience from early failures, the massive successes and with more reflection (for example on the painful Google acquisition of Nest) than I had expected, I found this to be a well rounded introduction to the entrepreneurial journey with lots of great actionable recommendations for every stage.

Definitely recommended reading for anyone in the business of building products and services, even if there really isn’t much in here that I would categorise as “unorthodox” – I found it energising.

Originally published on gooodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5779733667