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The Growth Podcast
by Aakash Gupta
Join 500K+ for deep dives on AI + product management. After spending a decade plus in product, I now interview PM's most insightful experts. www.news.aakashg.com
Episodes
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How you need to think about product strategy in the age of AI
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe Brought to you by Fingerprint - Identify good and bad visitors with industry-leading accuracy Ariso - Ship AI agents and features faster, with fewer...
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The Roadmap to Becoming a Product Builder, with Ankit Shukla
Brought to you by Mobbin - Discover real-world design inspiration Get a full year of Mobbin Pro, along with 8 other AI tools, at bundle.aakashg.com. Today’s episode LinkedIn shut down its Associate Product Manager program and replaced it with an Associate Product Builder program. If you’re a...
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n8n CEO: Why we aren’t dead, how to build great AI products, and what I look for in an AI PM
Brought to you by Customer.io - Send smarter messages using your product data Kameleoon - Leading AI experimentation platform Bolt - Ship AI-powered products 10x faster Jira Product Discovery - Plan with purpose, ship with confidence Product Faculty - Get $150 off their #1 AI PM Certification via...
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How to Get a ‘Transformative’ AI Fluency Rating as a PM, with Wade Foster | CEO of Zapier
Brought to you by Arize - Ship AI agents and features faster with fewer regressions. Get a full year of Arize’s paid plan, along with 8 other AI tools, at bundle.aakashg.com. Today’s episode I wrote a PRD using ChatGPT, with a considerable number of iterations, and gave it to the CEO of Zapier to...
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Inside the AI Stack of an $8.3B AI Company’s Product Team | Together AI
Today’s Episode 90% of teams have adopted AI, yet 56% of CEOs say they saw no major financial benefit. Both metrics are accurate, and I’m pretty sure you fall somewhere between them. With new AI tools flooding the market every week, it is safe to say that every team has its own AI setup by now.…
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How to Build Effective Product Loops in Claude Code, with Chief AI and Product Officer at JobNimbus, Tyler Folkman
Today’s episode Most PMs have automated something with AI by now. A PRD review. A weekly status update. The problem is that every session starts from scratch. Loops are what fix that. A skill that runs the same way forever is just a skill. A skill that takes the log of what happened and rewrites...
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How to build a Company Operating System with Hermes and OpenClaw
Today’s episode Today I’m showing you how to build a company operating system, with Mikhail Shcheglov, CPO at OLX Classifieds. After 5 months of continuous building on OpenClaw and Hermes, his entire product team now runs on it. His knowledge graph covers 54% of the company's product, business…
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How Srini Raghavan helped $3.4B SaaS Giant Freshworks Embrace the AI PDLC
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. Brought to you by * Customer.io - Send smarter messages using your product data * Ariso - The AI operating partner for every manager and team * Product Faculty - Get $150 off their #1 AI Builder Fellowship. Code AAKASH150 * Land PM Job -...
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3x CPO Oji Udezue on the Essential Claude Skills for PMs
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe Whether you’re using a PM OS, or using regular Claude, or using another AI harness (like ChatGPT Work or Codex)… One of the most important parts of...
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How to Build Frontier-Lab Quality Evals with Daniel McKinnon, ex-PM at Meta, Google
Today’s Episode A developer posted this workflow in March, and it is the clearest picture of where PM is heading that I’ve seen all year. Rasty Turek spent the past year building with coding agents, and he mapped how his process changed over that time. He reckons he now spends around 90% of his...
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The PM's Guide to Governance with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Brought to you by * Land PM Job - 12-week experience to master getting a PM job * Jira Product Discovery - Plan with purpose, ship with confidence * Amplitude - The market-leader in product analytics * Bolt - Ship AI-powered products 10x...
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Claude PM Masterclass from Former FAANG AI PM Jyothi Nookula
Today’s episode “This one’s too complex. I’m still stuck on ChatGPT.” I get some version of that DM every week, usually right after I publish something on the PM OS or the Team OS. And every time, I feel it, because those guides do assume you’re already up and running. So I made this episode for...
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The PM's Guide to AI Design that isn't Slop
Today’s episode Today I’m showing you, advanced Codex workflows with Meng To, founder of Design+Code. He told me early on that he’s barely touched Claude. He’s been living inside Codex every day since launch, running a setup most PMs have never seen up close. Plan mode and a fleet of 20 agents...
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How to Build a Company OS in Claude Code with Jiaona Zhang, CPO at Laurel
Today’s episode Product teams have figured out AI for engineering. The PMs are using Claude. The engineers are in Cursor. If you’ve been reading this newsletter from the start, you’ve seen how the top 1% are using AI to 10x their output. But there are still teams at companies like Adobe, teams in...
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How a VP of Product Uses Claude Without Producing Slop | Matthew Wensing, Customer.io
Today’s episode There are hundreds of guides on writing PRDs with Claude. Dozens on running user interviews. Almost nothing on how a VP of product actually uses it. Matt Wensing is VP of Product and Design at Customer.io. They crossed $100M ARR, just shipped an AI agent, and are one of the…
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How to Use Codex Like an OpenAI PM | Abhi Muchhal, PM OpenAI (ex-Meta and Nubank)
Today’s episode Six months ago, I told you Codex is the best way to use ChatGPT for PM work. Most of you tried it. Some of you stuck with it and very few of you are running it the way the people who built it actually run it. Today we get that inside look. Abhi Muchhal is an International Growth…
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How PMs Ship 100K Lines of Code at OpenAI with Ryan Lopopolo, Member of Technical Staff
Today’s episode Most companies are still debating whether PMs should ship code. OpenAI is already debating the best ways for PMs to ship code. They’re living in the future. The builder behind a lot of that harness engineering is Ryan Lopopolo. He wrote the OpenAI post on harness engineering and...
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How to Run Evals in Claude Code with Aparna Dhinakaran, Founder and CPO of Arize
Today’s episode Many of the smartest AI teams I know are running their evals on Arize. Teams at Uber, Booking.com, Pepsi, and others. It’s become one of the most important skills for PMs. I already had on the CEO of Braintrust, Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar, and Ankit Shukla. Today I’m adding…
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Claude Code for Non-Technical PMs, with Andre Albuquerque
Today’s episode The market is looking tough for non-technical PMs. Every single week, my comments look exactly the same: brilliant product managers who have the vision, specs, and roadmap in mind, but have zero coding skills. They want to build, and while thousands of technical resources exist...
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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn
Today’s episode When do you use Claude chat vs Cowork vs Code? No one has created a resource that helps you get the most out of the Claude ecosystem. Until now. I’ve brought back Pawel Huryn, the guest behind our most popular episode ever, the Complete Course on AI Product Management. Today we’re...
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How to Build a Full AI Dev Team in Claude Code | Guide from Google PM Gabor Meyer
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Brought to you by: * Maven - Get a $675 discount off Gabor’s course with my code * Amplitude - The market-leader in product analytics * Testkube - The leading test orchestration platform * Land PM Job - My 12-week AI PM + Job Search…
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How to Become a "Builder PM" with n8n, Claude Code, and OpenClaw | Mahesh Yadav (ex-Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft; Founder LegalGraph AI)
Today’s episode LinkedIn just changed the title of its product managers to product builders. What does it even mean to be a “builder PM”? Well, tools only get you so far. Learning Claude Code is helpful, but means nothing if you don’t have an understanding of the underlying first principles.…
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How to Design like OpenAI and Figma
Today’s episode The design process you learned is already dead. Most teams still follow the same linear pipeline. Low fidelity to high fidelity to handoff. Sketch it. Spec it. Ship it over the wall. That pipeline was built around a constraint that no longer exists. High fidelity used to be...
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How to build a Team OS in Claude Code with Hannah Stulberg, PM @ DoorDash
Today’s episode The way PM teams are trending, one PM is going to support 20 people. Not just engineers. Designers. Analysts. Strategy partners. GTM. Sales. Support. You cannot answer everyone’s questions about everything. You cannot be in every Slack thread. You cannot be the bottleneck for...
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How to Turn Claude Code into an Operating System with Carl Vellotti
Today’s episode Claude Code just hit $2.5 billion in annualized revenue in 9 months. It is the fastest B2B software product ramp in history. So why are most people still using it like a chatbot? This is how most people use Claude Code. Type a prompt and get output. The context fills up. It...
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AI PM at Netflix, Amazon and Meta - Here's How to Become an AI PM (Fundamentals + Job Search)
Today’s episode Stop applying to AI PM jobs until you understand the fundamentals. That is not gatekeeping. That is the MIT finding. 19 out of 20 AI pilots fail. The #1 reason? Picking the wrong problem to apply AI to. Not the wrong model. Not the wrong data. The wrong problem. Jyothi Nookula has...
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Evals are the new PRD. Here is the playbook with the CEO of the leader in the space (Ankur Goyal, Founder and CEO, Braintrust)
Today’s episode Most PMs treat evals like a quality gate. Something you run right before shipping, just to check the box. That is backwards. The best AI product teams treat evals as the starting point. They write the eval before the prompt. They iterate on the scoring function before the model....
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The Complete Guide to OpenClaw for PMs [EXCLUSIVE]
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.news.aakashg.com Today’s episode Every PM I talk to is using AI the same way. Open Claude. Type a question. Get an answer. Close the tab. The AI does nothing while you sleep. It forgets everything the next morning. It cannot touch...
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This CPO Uses Claude Code to Run his Entire Work Life | Dave Killeen, Field CPO @ Pendo
Today’s episode Most PMs start every day like this. Open the calendar. Open the CRM. Open Slack. Open the meeting notes. Open LinkedIn. Piece together what matters. Lose 30 minutes before real work even starts. That is not how the best PMs are working anymore. The best PMs are running one command...
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Gemini Gem Masterclass From the Creator Lisa Huang
Today’s episode Most PMs are using AI the same way they used Google in 2005. Type something in. Get something out. Move on. That is not how the best PMs are using it. The best PMs have stopped treating AI as a search engine and started treating it as a team member. One that already knows their...
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How to AI Prototype Well | Masterclass from $5.5B Founder, Nadav Abrahami (Wix)
Today’s episode AI prototyping tools are redefining what it means to be a PM. Bolt went from 0 to $40M ARR in 4.5 months. Lovable hit $17M ARR in 3 months. Every forward-thinking product team is starting to prototype earlier, faster, and at higher fidelity than ever before. But most PMs are using...
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Claude Code + Analytics = Vibe PMing
Today’s episode There is a term Andrej Karpathy coined last year: vibe coding. We have the same for product management: Vibe PMing. You describe the problem. The agent pulls the data. Analyzes the chart. Synthesizes the feedback. Drafts the spec. Files the ticket. That is not theory. That is what…
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How to Design with AI | The Complete Guide for PMs with Xinran Ma
Today’s Episode Designing with AI isn’t about prompting. Most PMs think they understand AI design because they can write a good prompt. They’re wrong. Real AI design is about understanding the entire workflow, the system, the constraints, and the behaviors. Xinran Ma runs Design with AI, one of…
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AI Evals Explained Simply by Ankit Shukla
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. Brought to you by - Reforge: Get 1 month free of Reforge Build (the AI prototyping tool built for PMs) with code BUILD Today’s Episode Ankit Shukla is BACK after his gangbusters episode, that is my #2 most popular of all time. This time…
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How to Do AI-Powered Discovery (Step-by-Step with Live Demo) | Caitlin Sullivan
Today’s Episode Discovery might be the most important core PM skill for building great products. But most PMs are unprepared to do discovery in AI. PMs run surveys incorrectly, conduct interviews poorly, and end up with poor insights. Today will give you the roadmap to avoid all those mistakes....
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How to Build An AI Native PM Operating System with Mike Bal, Head of Product at David's Bridal
Today’s Episode Most PMs are drowning in tools. You log into JIRA. Then Figma. Then Confluence. Then Notion. Then Google Analytics. Then Slack. Twenty different tabs. Twenty different logins. Zero flow state. Mike Bal runs product at David’s Bridal, a company undergoing massive digital...
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AI Agent Browsers: Should you use one? | ChatGPT Atlas vs Perplexity Comet vs Arc Dia
Today’s Episode ChatGPT just made huge waves with its Atlas browser. Perplexity made waves before that with its Comet browser. And Atlassian just spent a billion dollars to buy Dia. Big companies are making big moves in the AI browser space. But should you use an AI browser? Is it safe? Will it...
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Advanced Guide to AI Prototyping with Sachin Rekhi (Reforge)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.news.aakashg.com Today’s Episode When you first start using AI prototyping tools, you get wowed. You type “create me a CRM application” and boom a fully functioning app appears in 60 seconds. But here’s the problem. It looks…
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How to Build ChatGPT Apps (The Next App Store?) | Live Demo by Colin Matthews
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.news.aakashg.com Today’s Episode ChatGPT Apps might be the next billion-dollar opportunity. Or they might be another ChatGPT feature that gets abandoned in 6 months. I genuinely don’t know yet. But when people say “this could be…
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How to Do AI Evals Step-by-Step with Real Production Data | Tutorial by Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar
Today’s Episode Everyone’s demoing AI features. Few are shipping them to production reliably. The gap? Evals. Not the theoretical kind. The real-world kind that catches bugs before users do. Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar train people at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta on how to build AI...
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8 months of Claude Code Lessons in 80 minutes, with Carl Vellotti
Today's Episode Carl Vellotti is back. His first episode hit 30k views. My most popular episode in months. Today, he’s giving you the advanced playbook for Claude Code. Claude Code hit $1 billion ARR in December. Fastest product ever to reach that milestone. Under 6 months. Carl has been building...
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This is what a Google AI PM's Tool Stack Looks Like - Live Demo from Marily Nika
Marily Nika and I filmed my 7th most popular episode a year ago. She broke down everything on how to become an AIPM because she’s done it. She is an AIPM at Google with 11 years of experience. Today, she’s back with a completely new episode. She’s dropping every AI tool she uses daily as an AIPM....
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The Ultimate Guide to n8n for PMs, with Pawel Huryn
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.news.aakashg.com Pawel Huryn is the guest behind my most popular episode ever (52K+ views). Today, he’s back to give you a masterclass in one of the most exciting AI tools out there: n8n. n8n is the most powerful workflow…
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She went from IC PM to CEO of $550M AI company Descript in 3 years
Today’s Episode Laura Burkhauser started as an IC PM at Descript, the $550M AI video editing platform. Three years later, she’s CEO. She shipped AI features that worked. In today’s episode, you’ll hear the exact features Laura built, the eval framework she used, and her complete IC → CEO path.…
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The Ultimate Guide to ChatGPT Codex: OpenAI's Claude Code Killer
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. Brought to you by: * Jira Product Discovery: Move discovery and roadmapping out of spreadsheets * Vanta: Automate compliance across 35+ frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001 * Kameleoon: Leading AI experimentation platform * NayaOne…
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How to Upskill from Core PM to Great AI PM: Masterclass from Pendo CEO Todd Olson
Today’s Episode AI PM jobs pay 30-40% more than regular PM jobs. But here’s the problem: You can’t just slap “AI PM” on your resume. Todd Olson has spent 28 years in product management, VP of Product at a public company, then founder of Pendo, now a $2.5B product management platform working with...
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How Product Leaders Should Use AI, with Webflow CPO Rachel Wolan
Today’s Episode There are tons of tutorials about Claude Code and Cursor for IC PMs. But what about leaders? Today’s episode is a masterclass on both sides of AI product leadership. How to be a productive AI leader and how to ship AI-native features at scale. Rachel Wolan is the Chief Product...
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Context Engineering: The Secret Behind $10M ARR in 60 Days, with Kuse Founder Xiankun Wu
Today’s Episode Why do your prompts keep failing? You write the perfect prompt. The AI spits out garbage. You tweak. You iterate. You spend hours getting mediocre results. XK built Cues to $10M ARR in 60 days with zero VC funding and zero advertising. Today, he’s dropping the complete playbook:...
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How to Land an AI PM Job: Complete Roadmap from Hamza Farooq
Today’s Episode The salary for AI PMs is skyrocketing. Hamza Farooq works with companies like Home Depot, Trip Adviser, and Jack in the Box on their AI strategy. He teaches AI PM courses at Stanford, UCLA, and Maven. Today, he’s giving you the complete 6-month roadmap to go from no experience to…
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I put the 5 best AI prototyping tools to the test with Magic Patterns CEO Alex Danilowicz
Today’s Episode Every PM needs to master AI prototyping in 2025. But which tool should you use? And how do you actually prototype effectively? Alex Danilowicz built Magic Patterns to $1M in revenue in 6 months. Today, we’re putting his tool against the competition live. We built the same…
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