75: How to Found a Startup and Sell it to Google - podcast episode cover

75: How to Found a Startup and Sell it to Google

Jake and Jonathan
Apr 22, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Ep 75•Transcript available on Metacast
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Episode description

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
  1. designsprintpro.com
  2. Xander on LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter
  3. Tim Ferriss
  4. Marissa Mayer
  5. Paul Graham 
  6. Punchd
  7. Fivestars
  8. Inbox by Gmail—Wikipedia
  9. Design Thinking—Wikipedia
  10. McKinsey 
  11. Bain
  12. Book: Million Dollar Consulting—Alan Weiss—Amazon.com
  13. Book: Buy Sprint! 📘🏃‍♀️
  14. Book: Buy Make Time! 📗⏰
  15. AJ&Smart + Jake Knapp Official Design Sprint Masterclass: ajsmart.com/masterclass 🥇😯
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