10 Great Companies Founded By Former Apple Employees <br />Nest Labs, the company behind The Learning Thermostat, was started by the guy who created <br /> <br />the iPod. While at Apple, Tony Fadell helped redefine the concept of a portable music player <br /> <br />by developing the iPod. Fadell left the company in 2008 and later founded Nest Labs in 2010, <br /> <br />a company that is redefining another product: the thermostat. Apple recently partnered with <br /> <br />Nest to start selling the thermostat in its online store. <br />Andy Rubin started his career in the early 90s as an engineer at Apple. He later founded <br /> <br />Android, an open source mobile software company, which was eventually bought up by <br /> <br />Google. Apple later accused Rubin of drawing a little too much inspiration for Android from <br /> <br />his time at Apple. <br />As the brains behind the Mac operating system, Bertrand Serlet was widely considered to be <br /> <br />one of Apple's true geniuses. Serlet left the company in mid-2011 and has since been working <br /> <br />with a couple other ex-Apple employees on a startup in Palo Alto called Upthere, which is <br /> <br />working to create a cloud OS that will change the way people store their files online. <br />Meeteor, a professional networking startup, was founded by a former Mac project manager. <br /> <br />Meeteor is looking to take professional networking to the next level by helping users expand <br /> <br />their networks by get introduced to people who might be useful to know. The startup was <br /> <br />cofounded by Chris Lee, a former Apple project manager who oversaw the development of <br /> <br />several Mac OS X releases. <br />Dave Morin is probably best known for his impact on social networking, first as an early <br /> <br />Facebook employee working on initiatives like Facebook Connect and more recently as the <br /> <br />founder of Path, a startup that strives to be a more intimate social network. But before he <br /> <br />worked in either of these companies, Morin managed higher education marketing at Apple. <br />Flipboard, a social news app, was co-created by a senior Apple software engineer. Evan Doll <br /> <br />worked a
