Hey everybody Kevin Rose here. Welcome back to another episode of the Kevin Rose show. I'm really excited for today's show. I have Jake Knapp on the show and Jake is a former colleague of mine. We worked together at Google Ventures. Before we get into his background though, a quick little plug follow me up on

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All right, so let's talk about Jake. Jake is probably best know I would say

internally for his work on Gmail and also for his work in creating the design

sprint.

One of the issues that so many people face

that are creating products,

they don't really have an efficient way for people

to come together, brainstorm new ideas,

and then actually test these ideas and ship product.

And so Jake realized this and really deconstructed and figured out where all these different

roadblocks were and came up with a very efficient five-day process he called the Sprint.

Went off to write a book about how to run your own Sprint and then also deployed the Sprint process into a bunch of companies that I'm sure you've heard of.

Slack uses this process.

Uber, 23 and me, LEGO, the New York Times, they've all used his method.

His book called Sprint has been a New York Times in Wall Street Journal bestseller.

It's now available in over 20 different languages. So as you can imagine, any time Jake does anything new, I always pay attention.

And he has a new book out now, and this one is How to Make Time.

It's actually called Make Time, how to focus on what matters every day and Jake is a

minimalist to his core he doesn't have email apps or browsers on his smartphone even though he's like an ex-Google designer.

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