After what seemed like a big shakeup at Nest, with CEO Tony Fadell leaving the company to take on an "advisory role" at parent company Alphabet, a sale seemed like a possibility for the smart home company. An internal Nest memo obtained by The Verge says that's not the case, though. The new CEO, Marwan Fawaz, has addressed his employees to say that Alphabet won't be selling Nest.

In Fawaz's previous stint at Google, he ran Motorola's "Home" division (it made cable boxes) for a whopping six months before it was sold off to Arris. There has been lots of speculation (including here at Ars) that Fawaz would do the same job at Nest—move in, assess things, and put up a "For Sale" sign.

In the memo, Fawaz says, "My only agenda for Nest is to scale and grow with innovative products. Nest is not for sale, and scaling and innovation aren’t mutually exclusive."

The plan is apparently to stay the course and ship the new products Nest has been developing but hasn't yet managed to get out the door. "Many of you have asked if there’s a change in strategy or direction," says the memo. "There is not. We need to focus on delivering the great roadmap we have in place, beginning with [redacted]. This is how we’ll reset the narrative about Nest, reminding our customers, partners, and competitors of how we became the #1 connected home brand in the first place."

We have an idea as to what the [redacted] product could be. An earlier report said Nest was working on a wireless hub codenamed "Flintstone." The hub would work with other sensors Nest was developing to work as a security system and presumably would tie together the whole "Works with Nest" ecosystem the company was working toward. The system has reportedly been in development for three years, and Alphabet was pressuring Nest to get the product out sometime this year.

Building Nest into something great will be a challenge. By all accounts Nest was Tony Fadell's company. The former Apple employee used his old employer as a model and made himself the "Steve Jobs" of Nest—a demanding perfectionist involved in every decision. With Fadell gone, how much of Nest's management structure will still work?

We've also heard multiple reports of an employee exodus—including a first-hand account from ex-Dropcam CEO and Nest employee Greg Duffy—so there's a question as to how many quality Nest employees are left.

After a ton of bad press, "resetting the narrative" sounds like exactly what Nest needs to do at this point. With Nest apparently sticking to the current roadmap, be on the lookout for a new product by the end of the year.