The difference between working with Steve Jobs and Larry Page, according to the ex-CEO of Nest

Both: Justin Sullivan / GettySteve Jobs and Larry Page

Former Nest CEO Tony Fadell has the rare distinction of having worked closely with both Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and Google cofounder Larry Page.

Fadell worked with Jobs during his nearly ten years at Apple, for which he's known as the "father of the iPod," and Page after Google bought his smart-home company, Nest, for $3.2 billion in 2014.

He learned very different things from both men, he told Bloomberg's Ashlee Vance as part of an interview about his decision to step down as Nest CEO.

Here's what Fadell said about working with Page and Jobs:

In the past few months, several reports have scrutinized Fadell's management and Nest's product timelines. He tells Vance that he wanted to leave Nest to focus more on advising and investing in startups, and potentially work on new companies of his own (he's currently the cofounder of an electric go-kart company).

Read the rest of the wide-ranging interview here.

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