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The GV Design Sprint: how to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days

Tuesday 26 April 2016 | 1 hour 26 minutes 27 seconds

Join Google Ventures design partners Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, who will be discussing their new book Sprint: a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than one hundred companies.

Jake Knapp (@jakek) created the Google Ventures sprint process and has run more than a hundred sprints with startups such as 23andme, Slack, Nest, and Foundation Medicine. Previously, Jake worked at Google, leading sprints for everything from Gmail to Google X. He is currently among the world’s tallest designers.

John Zeratsky (@jazer) has designed mobile apps, medical reports, and a daily newspaper (among other things). Before joining Google Ventures, he was a design lead at YouTube and an early employee of FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007. John writes about design and productivity for Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Wired.

Paulina Bozek (@PaulinaBees) has spent the last 15 years leading creative teams to build video games, mobile apps and social platforms. She is the founder of creative studio inensu, a Governor and alumna of the LSE.