John Zeratsky
Designer and investor; co-founder of Character Capital and co-author of Sprint, Make Time and Click.
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Character Capital (co-founder and general partner)
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- John Zeratsky is an American designer, investor and author.
- An early employee at FeedBurner, he joined Google when it acquired the company in 2007, led design for AdWords Editor and DoubleClick Search, and moved to YouTube in 2010, where he worked on YouTube Channels.
- From 2011 to 2017 he was a partner at GV (Google Ventures), where he helped create the Design Sprint with Jake Knapp.
- In 2020 he returned to venture capital and co-founded Character Capital, where he is a general partner.
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- Character Capital
- Co-founder and general partner1
- Joined through the FeedBurner acquisition (2007); led design for AdWords Editor and DoubleClick Search; YouTube from 2010 (YouTube Channels)1
- GV (Google Ventures)
- Partner, 2011 to 2017; helped create the Design Sprint with Jake Knapp1
- Books
- Sprint, Make Time and Click, with Jake Knapp2
- Lives
- Milwaukee1
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Part of until 2017
Google (designer at Google and YouTube (joined with FeedBurner), then partner at GV 2011 to 2017) source on Google
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