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The Growth Podcast

The Growth Podcast

Aakash Gupta 142 Episodes Jul 20, 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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The PM's Guide to Governance with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup
The PM's Guide to Governance with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup Jul 20, 2026 4783 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 faster* Product Faculty - Get $550 off their #1 AI PM Certification with code AAKASH550C7----Today’s episode
Claude PM Masterclass from Former FAANG AI PM Jyothi Nookula
Claude PM Masterclass from Former FAANG AI PM Jyothi Nookula Jul 13, 2026 5600 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 the person sending the message. Jyothi Nookula has been an AI PM since before that was a title, through Ne
The PM's Guide to AI Design that isn't Slop
The PM's Guide to AI Design that isn't Slop Jul 9, 2026 4485 Today’s episodeToday 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 running at once while he steps away from his desk entirely. Slides, charts, and full brainstorms generated i
How to Build a Company OS in Claude Code with Jiaona Zhang, CPO at Laurel
How to Build a Company OS in Claude Code with Jiaona Zhang, CPO at Laurel Jun 24, 2026 4079 Today’s episodeProduct 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 sales, customer success, finance, who don’t have access to any of these tools. You ask them what AI to
How a VP of Product Uses Claude Without Producing Slop | Matthew Wensing, Customer.io
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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

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