Design Sprint

5 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2023 by Varun Parmar · across every show →

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Apr 20, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Miro uses Jake Knapp's five-day design sprints for zero-to-one product initiatives
“Anytime we're trying to build a new experience, like one of the approach we want to take is like very quickly validate. That our original hypothesis you know, is that sound or not? And we are big fans of the design sprint framework, you know, so what Jake Knap…”
Varun Parmar Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 9:16 An inside look at how Miro builds product | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)
Feb 11, 2024 positive
Insight
Zeratsky: Design sprints work best for products with high behavioral risk
“What we find is that the more there's a, there's kind of a big behavioral risk, the better this stuff works. So, so if you're just trying to make like a slightly better version of something that already exists, and maybe it's going to be a little cheaper or a …”
John Zeratsky Feb 11, 2024 ▶ 1:33:45 Making time for what matters | Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (Authors of Make Time, Character VC)
Jan 26, 2025
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Janakiraman: Strategy design sprints should create illustrative concepts, not final features
“The goal of the design sprint is not to sort of come up with Oh, these are the features we should build. That's not the purpose of the design sprint. The design sprint is to generate a lot of illustrative concepts that bring the strategy to life, because, you …”
Chandra Janakiraman Jan 26, 2025 ▶ 48:51 An operator’s guide to product strategy | Chandra Janakiraman (CPO at VRChat, ex-Meta, Headspace)
Jul 13, 2025 negative
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Zeratsky: Design Sprints fail pre-seed startups that lack foundational positioning
“When we started investing in, you know, truly precede, sometimes inception stage, you know, pre-product, pre-revenue, pre-everything companies, there was this piece missing at the beginning of that process. So we'd, we'd run design sprints and they would be he…”
John Zeratsky Jul 13, 2025 ▶ 10:15 Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
Jul 13, 2025 positive
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Zeratsky: Rapid realistic prototyping is the biggest AI use in sprints
“That's definitely the first and biggest use of AI in Sprint so far is, is in, you know, making prototypes that look more realistic faster.”
John Zeratsky Jul 13, 2025 ▶ 1:32:46 Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
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