The Growth Podcast

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 running at once while he steps away from his desk entirely. Slides, charts, and full brainstorms generate...

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 sales, customer success, finance, who don’t have access to any of these tools. You ask them what AI t...

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 fastest growing companies in B2B SaaS right now. I asked him to show me his actual documents, his actual S...

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 PM at OpenAI. Before that, Meta, Nubank, and a founder building on the OpenAI API. He is one of the peop...

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 runs a frontier team where PMs, designers, and engineers all ship using the same system. The wild part f...

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 to this knowledge base on evals with a masterclass on evals in Claude Code. Aparna Dhinakaran is the...

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 online, they make a flawed assumption: that you already know how to code. So when I invited Andre Albuqu...

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 covering everything you need to know to get the most out of the Claude Ecosystem. Most PMs open Claude...

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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 . That’s today’s episode. Mahesh Yadav created one of our most popular episodes, with over 35K views on Yo...

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 expensive. It is not anymore. I brought in two people who represent both sides of the new design infrastructu...

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 context that already exists somewhere in a Google Doc no one can find. But you can give them a high-context...

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 compacts. You lose everything. You start over. The top users flipped it. They built skills that interview thr...

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 spent 13.5 years in AI . 12 patents. AIPM at Amazon (SageMaker), Meta (PyTorch), Netflix (Developer Pl...

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. They use failing evals as a roadmap. That shift is what today’s episode is about. I sat down with Anku...

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 your Slack, your email, your file system. OpenClaw changes that. 245,000 GitHub stars. 2 million weekly...

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 in the morning and getting everything they need in five minutes. Their calendar, their deals, their ma...

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 product, their writing style, their strategy. One that does not need to be briefed from scratch every sin...

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 these tools wrong. They open Bolt or Lovable, type a vague prompt, get something that looks decent, sh...

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 I walked through in today’s episode with a principal PM at Amplitude who builds MCP and agent products...

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 the top newsletters on AI design. He’s been studying AI design tools for three years. And he hasn’t shar...

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 he's diving deep on one of the most important new AI skills for PMs: Evals . Whether you're working o...

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 . Caitlin Sullivan is a user research expert who runs courses teaching PMs how to do AI-powered discover...

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 transformation. And he operates from a single interface. Cursor and Claude Desktop sit at the center. Everything...

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 make you more effective as a PM? I asked this question at Berkeley last month during my keynote. Out of...