{"id":208433,"date":"2026-01-31T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/ipod-inventor-having-kids-changed-founders-privacy-views\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:15:09","slug":"ipod-inventor-having-kids-changed-founders-privacy-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/ipod-inventor-having-kids-changed-founders-privacy-views\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod Inventor: Having Kids Changed Founders’ Privacy Views"},"content":{"rendered":"

iPod Inventor: Having Kids Changed Founders’ Privacy Views<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tony-fadell-tech-founders-having-kids-changed-privacy-views-2026-1<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-01-31 05:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Becoming parents has changed more than just the work schedules for Silicon Valley’s elite, according to the “father of the iPod.”<\/p>\n

Tony Fadell, the former Apple executive who invented the popular music player, said that founders he’s worked with think differently about privacy issues after going through the life-changing experience of having kids.<\/p>\n

“I remember a marked way difference in the way I thought about the world before I had kids and after I had kids,” Fadell told Eric Newcomer during a recent interview on the journalist’s podcast.<\/p>\n

Fadell said that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin think about the world “in a very different way” now than before they had kids or were married.<\/p>\n

“‘I want everything all the time. I’ll give away all my privacy. I don’t care what happens with all this data,'” Fadell said, describing the pre-parenthood viewpoint. “As soon as you have kids and you start hearing about deepfakes, and you start hearing about social engineering, and you start hearing about all this other stuff, you start changing your view on how much data you want sucked up and how you’re being protected.”<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg has previously spoken about how becoming a parent changed how he led Facebook, now Meta. Zuckerberg and his wife, pediatrician and philanthropist Priscilla Chan. Their eldest child was born in 2015.<\/p>\n

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