The Product Breakfast Club
Summary: Product Breakfast Club is a behind the scenes look at how some of the best companies in the world design their products. Jake Knapp, NY Times best-selling author of "Sprint", has helped companies like Slack, Nest and 23andMe build successful products. Jonathan Courtney, co-founder of AJ&Smart, has worked with companies like RedBull, eBay and the United Nations, to help them build better products faster. In this new, exciting podcast, the two of them have teamed up to discuss things like product design, innovation and productivity.
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How often do you get the chance to listen to the VP of Facebook, Julie Zhuo, talk about her work..?!? (Crickets) Yeah, we thought so. That’s why we think you’ll LOVE this episode! Jake & Jonathan (well mostly Jake), ask Julie a lot of questions you would want to ask to someone who’s as successful & amazing as Julie. Here’s a sneak peek of the topics covered: Joining Facebook Managing hundreds of people Imposter syndrome Writing & how it’s related to clear thinking What does VP of design at Facebook do Where do new ideas come from? Links: juliezhuo.com Book: The Making Of A Manager Read Julie’s writing on The Year of the Looking Glass Subscribe to Julie’s Mailing List Subscribe to Jake’s newsletter Book: Super intelligence—Nick Bostrom Book: Buy Sprint!
Jake & Jonathan go into deep topics in this one!
Jonathan and Tim sit down to discuss the top 10 most innovative companies of 2019! Who’s Tim, you ask? Good question. They go through the top 10 one by one and discuss what they think of these companies and their innovations.
Another week, another Jake-less episode. In this one, Jonathan interviews Jason Feifer, Editor in Chief at Entrepreneur Magazine. Jason also has 2 great podcasts: Pessimist Archive, Problem Solvers. And he's written for a bunch of famous publications. Aaaand he's also written a novel, Mr. Nice Guy. Jonathan and Jason discuss entrepreneurship, striving for perfectionism (as in you shouldn't!), and some great advice! Links jasonfeifer.com Jason on Twitter Jason on Instagram Jason's writing on Entrepreneur Mag Pessimist Archive Podcast Problem Solvers Podcast Mr. Nice Guy Tim Ferriss Huge Inc 4 Hour Workweek on Amazon The New Yorker This American Life Serial podcast Descript Andrew Mason on Twitter Buy Sprint!
For those of you poor souls who subscribed to this podcast hoping to hear intelligent discussions about the product world, you’ve probably noticed that such discussions are a rare treat… BUT TODAT IS ONE SUCH TREAT! Jake & Jonathan discuss the acquisitions Spotify made as part of its strategy to OWN the podcasting space. Jake actually prepared for this one! You’re in for a good episode… Links: Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor in podcast push, earmarks $500M for more deals Anchor—The best way to make your podcast Gimlet Media StartUp podcast Homecoming podcast Apple Takes Podcasting Mainstream (2005) Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play—Stratechery Midroll—Podcast Advertising Network ODEO—Wikipedia This American Life NPR Planet Money Gimlet 13: Fake It Til You Make It—StartUp Sign up to Jake’s newsletter Product Breakfast Club #62: Product Business Models of the Future Why Can’t We Have Decent Toilet Stalls?—Slate The LEGO Movie 2—IMDb Buy Sprint!
People. Naked people. Naked people running in the street. Naked people in the sauna. Jonathan naked in a sauna. 16 minutes of that. Then awards. 2018 awards. But not necessarily for stuff that came out in It’s a fun one. Enjoy!
This is a big one! This might just be the BEST EPISODE YET!! Why, you ask..? Because Jake & Jonathan are joined by none other than the legendary Kevin Rose. Jonathan doesn’t even bother talking for most of the episode because he just wants Kevin and Jake to keep talking! Here’s some of the stuff they cover: 4:30 Getting into products 9:00 dealing with failure and trying crazy things 15:00 being too early to a market 18:25 gut feeling vs market research and talking to users 23:00 ideas vs execution and getting started 27:00 VR 31:00 the entrepreneur eyes 36:00 school & daydreaming 42:45 Kevin’s favorite digital & physical products 49:00 finding balance Links: Kevin Rose — Wikipedia @kevinrose on Twitter @kevinrose on Instagram The Kevin Rose Show Kevin’s investments (Angel.co) Digg Revision3 Milk Zero — Fasting Tracker Oak — Meditation & Breathing Google Ventures (GV) True Ventures Blue Bottle Coffee Nextdoor—The private social network for your neighborhood community The Random Show Podcast Tiiny Stewart Butterfield—Wikipedia Burbn Salesforce.com Oculus Rift Oculus Go HTC Vive Samsung Gear VR Microsoft HoloLens Nintendo Switch Oura Ring UV-B lamps—Wikipedia DailyArt—Daily Dose of Art History The Wim Hoff Method Host Defense — Stamets 7 Multi Mushroom Capsules—Amazon.com Buy Sprint!
Fish burning.
Jake & Jonathan kick-off the first episode of the new year by diving straight into prod… no, they start by rambling for a good long while. But it’s good rambling: new year goals, journaling, setting OKRs, and Jonathan’s mom meets a random Irish guy that knows Jake.
Welcome back! Jonathan kicks off the year by actually talking about product design by interviewing Ryan Warrender, former Mobile UX Lead and currently Strategic Partnership Manager at Google. They talk about UX design careers, how Ryan got into Google, how college doesn’t actually teach you anything, how to teach yourself, and even, strangely, design sprints! Sponsored by Squarespace! Ha! Not really. Links: Ryan Warrender on: Twitter, Instagram, Medium Rotational programs at GE GaryVee (Instagram) The Canvas Strategy — RyanHoliday.net AJ&Smart on YouTube PBC #26: Sarah Cooper — How to Quit Google (Interview) Book: Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience Book: Don’t Make Me Think Book: Emotional Design The Futur (YouTube) PBC #12: Chris Do — How to Build an Amazing Design Business PBC #X: Jason Fried gives us SAVAGE Product Advice PBC #46: Silicon Valley’s Top CEO/Leadership Coach: KIM SCOTT Awwwards The Webby Awards Book: Progressive Web Apps: The Future of the Mobile Web Omnipresent Links: Buy Sprint!
Strap in for the end of the year extravaganza! The episode, appropriately, starts off with favorite breakfast sandwiches of
Jake & Jonathan are back together in this one. Amdist all the interviews this year, it’s like a special episode when Jake & Jonathan actually talk to each other! In this one, they read listener email… Everyone loves the show. Boring. JK. Thank you everyone!
58: 1 MILLION DESIGN SPRINTS IN ICELAND
Jonathan has moved on. Jakes interviews tara wike, Senior Design Manager at LEGO, the wooden toys company, and manages LEGO Ideas. Jakes asks Tara about her move to Denmark. Learning Danish. æ ø å. Eating a hot dog & drinking chocolate milk. Applying for jobs. Odd jobs. Designing minifigs. And some sage advice at the end! Links: Microsoft Encarta (Wikipedia) LEGO LEGO Ideas LEGO Idea (formerly Cuusoo) (Wikipedia) LEGO minifigure (Wikipedia) Rhino LEGO Voltron LEGO NASA Apollo Saturn V DK LEGO Books LEGO Women of NASA AJ&Smart + Jake Knapp Official Design Sprint Masterclass:ajsmart.com/masterclass
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