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Hah, followed this twitter post, https://twitter.com/LaurenGoode/status/1095084761796685824, from another commenter that leads to the Eero CEO on an episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask from 2017. This question from the interviewer is now pretty ironic:

> KS: I say one of the biggest things is that you don’t want Google messing around in your home. Honestly, half of my decisions are made like that, and now I don’t want as much Amazon in there because I buy everything now because I’m at Whole Foods. It’s fascinating. Part of it is that idea as an independent. You don’t want those two or three companies to really dominate every single data interaction you have, which is a plus for you guys, presumably.

> Our business model is to sell you a premium product and that’s our business.

From https://www.recode.net/2017/8/11/16135384/transcript-eero-ce...

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Might want to change "KS" to "interviewer" as nearly everyone commenting on this seems to think it's the CEO saying KS's quote ;)

>This question from the interviewer is now pretty ironic

The word you need here is prescient. Nothing ironic about how things ended up playing out.

Positioning Eero's offerings via contrast to Amazon as a privacy threat... and then ending up Amazon-allied/assimilated does carry some irony.

The CEO only said their product is positioned as a premium product. The interviewer was the one mentioning Amazon and Google being in your home.

The CEO’s reply was pretty neutral in that regard.

That's a very diplomatic answer then. I don't see the irony.

Complains about why he, personally, doesn't want Amazon (or Google) "messing around in your home" and how Eero sells a "premium product" (presumably that doesn't "mess around in your home") and subsequently sells his company to Amazon ... who will likely change the Eero product to "mess around in your home"

And you can't spot the irony?

The “messing around” quote is from the interviewer, not the CEO.

This is such a tricky thing. I like to speak honestly, and I use my blog/newsletter to help formulate my thinking about the world.

But, always, in the back of my head, I think "should I really say that about Apple/Amazon/Google/etc)?" Self censorship is a tricky beast.

To clarify, "KS" in my post was the interviewer, Kara Swisher, who was saying those things about Amazon and Google. The Eero CEO was the one who responded with the more nebulous "Our business model is to sell you a premium product and that’s our business."

Ah thanks for that, I clearly didn't click the link.

You made a big fatal mistake. Edit your post.

Everyone has a price!

and a time.

Re-read the post carefully, the interviewer is commenting about Google and Amazon owning data. The CEOs response is still consistent with being bought by Amazon.

Oh those sweet green dollars.. So green

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