Jake Knapp
Biography
Jake Knapp is the inventor of the Design Sprint and a New York Times bestselling author. Jake spent 10 years at Google and Google Ventures, where he created the Design Sprint process. He’s written two books, Sprint and Make Time, coached teams at places like Slack, LEGO, IDEO, and NASA on design strategy and time management, and has been a guest instructor at MIT and the Harvard Business School. Previously, Jake co-founded Google Meet and helped build products like Gmail and Microsoft Encarta.
Jake is a frequent keynote speaker on the topics of startups, business strategy, marketing, design, and time management. He has spoken at hundreds of events for organizations like Airbnb, LEGO, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and NASA; at conferences from Google I/O to the Lean Startup Conference; and as a guest lecturer at universities like Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, and the London School of Economics.
He also runs design sprint workshops, as both ticketed public and private company events in places as varied as Iceland, Bologna, and Las Vegas. In these fun, fast-paced, hands-on events, Jake rapidly leads groups through all five stages of the Design Sprint process. Jake lives outside of Seattle with his wife and two sons.
