42: Why the Best Products Come From Silicon Valley

What's the difference between working as a designer in Silicon Valley and the rest of the world.... Well, the water closet for sure! Jonathan and Jake chat about; • Working for big Silicon Valley companies, • How to position your values inline with people higher in the food chain, • How to ask for what you want without sounding sleazy, • And of course a whole bunch of polite restroom/bathroom humour. Find out more about the Master-Class here;

 AJ&Smart + Jake Knapp Official Design Sprint Master-Class: https://ajsmart.com/masterclass €500 off (until August 16th) with this code: PBCPODCAST Follow Jake Knapp on Twitter: @jakek Follow Jonathan Courtney on Instagram or Twitter: @jicecream Write into the podcast: pbc@ajsmart.com Podcast editing by Jason Sanderson: PodcastTech.com Show Notes (fan made): https://medium.com/product-breakfast-club-links-unofficial

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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.