Jake Knapp
13 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2023 by Varun Parmar · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2023 4 mentions in 1 episode
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Apr 20, 2023 positive
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…”
Feb 11, 2024 negative
Knapp: Workers who become constant reaction machines function like chatbots
“If we're a reaction machine, we're not doing meaningful work. No project days. And we're not really alive as humans. We're just chatbots. And so it's worth experimenting if you don't want to live your life out as a chatbot.”
Feb 11, 2024 neutral
Knapp: Email stress stems from internal guilt, not external expectations
“The real power of it is in changing like my own, our own expectations about what we are going to do and what we are expected to do. Most of the stress comes internally from our feeling that if we don't get back to people right away, we're not enough.”
Feb 11, 2024 neutral
Feb 11, 2024 negative
Feb 11, 2024 neutral
Knapp: High-value goals lose to reactive tasks offering instant dopamine
“Generally, the things we want to do, these Project A things, they're big, they're not easy to start, they're slow to create dopamine hits, they're non-urgent, like boss is not asking for them if you have a boss, and generally the tasks and activities that stan…”
Feb 11, 2024
Feb 11, 2024 positive
Knapp: Storing TV projectors in cabinets adds friction against mindless viewing
“We have like a projection screen. That's all kind of folded up and, you know, in the corner and the projectors like in a cabinet. So you got to get it out and get a chair and put it on there. And like, if you're motivated enough, you know, you can do it, but i…”
Feb 11, 2024 neutral
Feb 11, 2024 positive
Knapp: Employees know their highest-leverage work better than OKRs do
“If you have a boss and a boss's boss's boss that you Have great insight about what, if you had a window of time, would be the highest leverage thing for you to do, and it might not show up on your OKRs, it might not be on your boss's radar, your boss's boss's …”
Feb 11, 2024 neutral
Jul 13, 2025
Knapp: A one-week Stockholm browser prototype became Google Meet
“And in that week in Stockholm, we created a prototype instead. We decided, you know what, forget it. We're just going to build something and put it in people's hands, put it in our fellow Googlers hands. And that Prototype was what became Google Meet. It was t…”
Jul 13, 2025 neutral
Knapp: Google teams used 'fast is better than slow' to guide decisions
“When John and I worked at Google back in the 2000, there was this list called 10 things we've found to be true. And one of the things on that list was fast is better than slow. And what was interesting is this is a mantra that you would actually hear people us…”