Jake and Jonathan

Jake Knapp & Jonathan Courtney

Jake and Jonathan (formally Product Breakfast Club) is a behind the scenes look at how some of the best companies in the world design their products. Jake Knapp, NY Times best-selling author of "Sprint", has helped companies like Slack, Nest and 23andMe build successful products. Jonathan Courtney, co-founder of AJ&Smart, has worked with companies like RedBull, eBay and the United Nations, to help them build better products faster. In this new, exciting podcast, the two of them have teamed up to discuss things like product design, innovation and productivity.

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139: Welcome to the Weather Show!

Jake and Jonathan

07/27/20 • 25 min

Rats. 🐀 You’ll get eaten by rats if you don’t register for Jake’s upcoming July 29th bootcamp! 🧀 Hobey Blobbins is killing it. 🕺🏻 German TV is dark but also white. 📺 An AI can write better than Jake..?!? 🤖 LEGO & Nintendo CUTENESS!! 🧸

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121: How To Deal With Corona Anxiety

Jake and Jonathan

03/23/20 • 36 min

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117: John Zeratsky is in this episode!

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02/24/20 • 41 min

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103: You need to have this Mindset to Succeed

Jake and Jonathan

11/04/19 • 52 min

MERCH! Get your t-shirt here: teespring.com/stores/jakejonathan. Jake and Jonathan talk about the abundance mindset_and why it makes business sense in the longterm. Also, designers with a scarcity mindset won’t get very far. There’s a ton of money in workshopping. How much should you charge for a Design Sprint? Finally, are you an _entitled designer..? If you are, learn how to be a guide instead.

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Podcast editing by Jason Sanderson: PodcastTech.com
Show notes by @amrkhalifeh
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78: 4 Product Books you HAVEN’T read

Jake and Jonathan

05/13/19 • 57 min

Jake & Amr talk about some books. Jake talks about books that influenced the idea that would later be part of the Design Sprint. How non-design books can help product designers. Facebook's redesign. Email. Distractions. Stuff!

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76: We were WRONG about VR

Jake and Jonathan

04/29/19 • 48 min

The podcast is back to normal this week. Which means there’s a whole lot of rambling and very little structure. Jonathan gives a few updates on his company (AJ&Smart) and mentions he’s looking to hire a few people. Then the boys talk VR and some book recommendations.

Your Hosts:

Follow Jake Knapp on Twitter: @jakek
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Write into the podcast: [email protected]
Podcast editing by Jason Sanderson: PodcastTech.com
Show notes by @amrkhalifeh
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53: How to Design Non-Sh**t Conferences with ANDY BUDD

Jake and Jonathan

11/05/18 • 74 min

Jonathan interviews Andy Budd, co-founder of Clearleft and the man behind popular design conferences like UX London and Leading Design. Jonathan asks lots of questions and but doesn’t even get close to asking everything he wants to ask. Some of the topics Jonathan and Andy touch on:

How Andy is pathological! It’s true! 👻

What are conferences for? Spoiler: it’s not education! 🤔

How to connect with people at conferences? 🤚🏻

How does Andy balance watching over 500 conference talks a year with running Clearleft? 🤯

Managing cashflow when running an agency. 🤑

How to agency? 🧐

Lastly they talk about selling out, because, spoiler, Jonathan is thinking of SELLING OFF AJ&SMART! WHAAAT! Yeah, no, just kidding. 😌

Links:

Leading Design Conf 2019

PBC #11: Why Most Design Conferences Suck

PBC #44: Growing USTWO + The Future of Creative Business with Jules Ehrhardt

PBC #49: MONA PATEL on Starting and Growing a Multi Million Dollar Design Agency

Ex Machina

Artificial Intelligence: The Norwegian Retreat

SXSW

BOOK: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber

BOOK: Capital: A Novel

Smashing Conf

Buy Sprint!

Buy Make Time!

Check out, nay, GO BUY the AJ&Smart + Jake Knapp Official Design Sprint Masterclass:ajsmart.com/masterclass 💰

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Podcast editing by Jason Sanderson: PodcastTech.com

Show Notes (fan made by @amrkhalifeh): https://medium.com/product-breakfast-club-links-unofficial

45: Apple is DOOMED! iPhone XS, Watch Series 4 LEAKED

Jake and Jonathan

09/10/18 • 39 min

This week something cool is about to drop... and it’s not the theme tune to Fragil Rock. It’s that time for Apple’s special event - 2018. The invitations are out, but so are the rumours. This year also comes with a whole bunch of leaks (whoooo let the dogs out). So Jonathan chats to Jake via some crappy Skype phone sound (apologies) and go over the pre-event rumours and leaks, as they surface.

We explore the 3 different iPhone models, possible iPad and iWatch improvements and what it means for this ‘Tick-Tock’ tock year. We also look at the flaws in Apples yearly improvements but the desire that captivates all Apple users to buy every year.

Oh and some Yodelling...

Find out more about the Master-Class here: AJ&Smart + Jake Knapp Official Design Sprint Master-Class: https://ajsmart.com/masterclass