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Nest CEO Tony Fadell talks live backstage at the Code Conference

Hear about his latest venture — a startup building electric go-karts.

By Mark Bergen
Asa Mathat

Tony Fadell is a busy man. The CEO of Nest, the connected device company, is also, as he announced earlier this week, involved with running Actev Motors, a startup building electric go-karts for children.

At the opening of the Code Conference, he spoke with The Verge's Lauren Goode about that startup, Nest and his thoughts on cars and design .

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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