Jake and Jonathan
75: How to Found a Startup and Sell it to Google
Episode Summary
Jake interviews ex-Googler Xander Pollock—one of the first people to run sell Design Sprints outside Google. They cover a bunch of topics, such as: - Starting a company - Raising funding - How Google made the decision to buy Xander’s company - Building relationships, no ego, directness - Salary negotiations & making career decisions based on money - Going independent
Episode Notes
Jake interviews ex-Googler Xander Pollock—one of the first people to run sell Design Sprints outside Google. They cover a bunch of topics, such as:
- Starting a company
- Raising funding
- How Google made the decision to buy Xander’s company
- Building relationships, no ego, directness
- Salary negotiations & making career decisions based on money
- Going independent
Links
- designsprintpro.com
- Xander on LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter
- Tim Ferriss
- Marissa Mayer
- Paul Graham
- Punchd
- Fivestars
- Inbox by Gmail—Wikipedia
- Design Thinking—Wikipedia
- McKinsey
- Bain
- Book: Million Dollar Consulting—Alan Weiss—Amazon.com
- Book: Buy Sprint! 📘🏃♀️
- Book: Buy Make Time! 📗⏰
- AJ&Smart + Jake Knapp Official Design Sprint Masterclass: ajsmart.com/masterclass 🥇😯
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