Knapp: A one-week Stockholm browser prototype became Google Meet
Jake Knapp · Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint · Jul 13, 2025 · at 7:03
Jake Knapp, co-creator of the Design Sprint and partner at Character Capital, describes the prototype project at Google that led to the creation of the Design Sprint process.
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“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 this video conferencing tool that you could use in the web browser.”
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