iPhone co-creator & Future Shape founder Fadell avoids direct investments in China

iPhone co-creator & Future Shape founder Fadell avoids direct investments in China

Tony Fadell, founder of Future Shape LLC, poses for a photograph in Singapore on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Photographer: Wei Leng Tay/Bloomberg

Most people wouldn’t dream of leaving Bali right before the eve of Nyepi, the March new year’s carnival of firecrackers and giant monster puppets, but Tony Fadell had a different party in mind. Last month, he left his family on the Indonesian island and flew to Singapore, where he beamed as he high-fived the team running one of his investments, Impossible Foods Inc. The executives were there to commemorate their plant-based meat substitute making its way into dumplings and skewers in a handful of Singaporean restaurants, the latest step in Impossible’s expansion into Asia.

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