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The Growth Podcast

The Growth Podcast

Aakash Gupta 142 episodes Latest May 25, 2026

Join 65K+ other listeners in the world's biggest podcast on AI and product management. Host Aakash Gupta brings on the world's leading AI PM experts. The podcast is available at www.news.aakashg.com.

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How a VP of Product Uses Claude Without Producing Slop | Matthew Wensing, Customer.io Jun 9, 2026 3017 Today’s episodeThere 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 fastest growing companies in B2B SaaS right now. I asked him to show me his actual documents, his actual Slack
How to Use Codex Like an OpenAI PM | Abhi Muchhal, PM OpenAI (ex-Meta and Nubank) Jun 3, 2026 4027 Today’s episodeSix 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 PM at OpenAI. Before that, Meta, Nubank, and a founder building on the OpenAI API. He is one of the people
How PMs Ship 100K Lines of Code at OpenAI with Ryan Lopopolo, Member of Technical Staff May 25, 2026 4485 Today’s episodeMost 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 runs a frontier team where PMs, designers, and engineers all ship using the same system.The wild part for me
How to Run Evals in Claude Code with Aparna Dhinakaran, Founder and CPO of Arize May 22, 2026 4772 Today’s episodeMany 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 to this knowledge base on evals with a masterclass on evals in Claude Code.Aparna Dhinakaran is the founder
Claude Code for Non-Technical PMs, with Andre Albuquerque May 18, 2026 4178 Today’s episodeThe 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 online, they make a flawed assumption: that you already know how to code.So when I invited Andre Albuquerqu
PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn May 14, 2026 5560 Today’s episodeWhen 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 covering everything you need to know to get the most out of the Claude Ecosystem.Most PMs open Claude cha
How to Build a Full AI Dev Team in Claude Code | Guide from Google PM Gabor Meyer Apr 30, 2026 8118 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 Course starts Monday!* Product Faculty - Get $550 off their #1 AI PM Certification with code AAKASH550C7Today’s e
How to Become a "Builder PM" with n8n, Claude Code, and OpenClaw | Mahesh Yadav (ex-Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft; Founder LegalGraph AI) Apr 20, 2026 5810 Today’s episodeLinkedIn 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.That’s today’s episode.Mahesh Yadav created one of our most popular episodes, with over 35K views on YouTube, a
How to Design like OpenAI and Figma Apr 10, 2026 3215 Today’s episodeThe 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 expensive. It is not anymore.I brought in two people who represent both sides of the new design infrastructure.
How to build a Team OS in Claude Code with Hannah Stulberg, PM @ DoorDash Apr 7, 2026 4233 Today’s episodeThe 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 context that already exists somewhere in a Google Doc no one can find.But you can give them a high-context, we
How to Turn Claude Code into an Operating System with Carl Vellotti Mar 30, 2026 4008 Today’s episodeClaude 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 compacts. You lose everything. You start over.The top users flipped it. They built skills that interview through
AI PM at Netflix, Amazon and Meta - Here's How to Become an AI PM (Fundamentals + Job Search) Mar 23, 2026 4375 Today’s episodeStop 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 spent 13.5 years in AI. 12 patents. AIPM at Amazon (SageMaker), Meta (PyTorch), Netflix (Developer Platfor

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