The Growth Podcast

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 generic. The styling is basic. The features are vanilla. You’d never ship this to customers. This is AI slop....

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 the new App Store,” my ears perk up. I spent four years building an iOS app in the early days of the App...

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 products that actually work. Their Maven course is the top-grossing course on the platform. Today, they’re...

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 with Claude Code every single day. He’s made all the mistakes. He’s learned all the expert workflows...

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. Not theory. Not hype. The actual 6 tools she uses multiple times every single day. Today she’s droppin...

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 automation tool that combines two things: traditional workflow automation and building AI agents. And Pawel has...

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. This might be the most actionable career episode you listen to all year. ---- Check out the conversation...

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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 everyone from American Cancer Society to Zendesk. ---- Check out the conversation on Apple , Spotify an...

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 Officer at Webflow, the $4 billion company powering TED Talks, SoundCloud, and Reddit. Rachel walks throug...

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: ----- Check out the conversation on Apple , Spotify and YouTube . Brought to you by: Reforge http://refo...

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 PM at OpenAI or Anthropic. We built a live AI prototype in 30 minutes (with RAG and agents working). An...

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 prototype in 5 different tools and graded each one. Then Alex shared the exact workflow his customers use. ----...

Today’s Episode Why do some AI products feel like magic while others feel like work? You shipped. It works. Your metrics show “success.” But users aren’t coming back. They’re not telling friends. And next quarter, they’ll switch to the competitor with a better model. Nesrine Changuel built Spotify Wrapped and ran Google’s Delight Team. Today, she’s giving you the complete playbook: The 4-step Deli...

Today’s Episode Alex Reachvky has helped hundreds of PMs land $700K+ AI jobs. The gap between $140K and $700K isn’t magic. It’s method. Today, he breaks down the exact AI-powered workflow to land an AI PM job, from resume creation to acing interviews. This is the playbook PMs are using right now to 10X their callbacks and land multiple offers. ---- Check out the conversation on Apple , Spotify and...

Every PM is asking the same question: Which AI tools actually make me faster? There are hundreds of apps. Most are hype. Some are game-changers. Today, I sat down with Anshumanni Rudra - VP of Product at Hotstar, now Group Product Manager at Google leading all APAC payments - to rank 70+ AI tools tier-list style. We didn’t hold back. S-tier tools got crowned. D-tier tools got exposed. And we revea...

I had a precious hour of a Google AI PM Director’s time. So, I extracted all the best insights about AI PM for you: How to use Google’s latest AI tools like an insider How to build great AI products How to become an AI PM And I didn’t hold back on the tough questions. And Jaclyn Konzelmann dropped an absolute masterclass . You don’t want to miss her advice on AI PM resumes... ---- Check out the co...

Today’s Episode Sam Altman said one person will build a billion-dollar company. Sahil’s already halfway there with just one employee. Most PMs are still running 6-week sprints. Writing 10-page PRDs. Coordinating between designers and engineers. Sahil ships features from Slack to production in 30 minutes. Here’s the exact AI workflow powering Gumroad’s $10M ARR: If AI gets it wrong, your communicat...

Tyler Fisk built a $1.6 million AI education business in one year. Zero PhDs. Zero Silicon Valley pedigree. Just a systematic approach to building AI agents that actually work in production. While everyone’s vibe coding in ChatGPT, Tyler’s teaching thousands of students to build multi-agent systems for real businesses. Hundreds of production deployments. Actual revenue. Today he’s doing a live bui...

Today’s Episode Everyone’s building AI products wrong. They’re sprinkling AI on top like fairy dust. Adding chat interfaces to everything. Ignoring 70 years of design principles. Elizabeth Laraki was one of 4 designers on Google Search in 2006. One of 2 designers on Google Maps in 2007. She helped create products used by billions—products whose designs barely changed for 15+ years because they nai...

Today’s Episode Claude Code hit $500 million ARR in four months. Two product managers. Zero marketing dollars. Just pure viral growth. While some PMs are still copying and pasting into ChatGPT, others are orchestrating multiple AI agents that work in parallel, automatically reading files, researching competitors, and building prototypes. Carl Vellotti runs the world’s largest PM Instagram account...

Today’s Episode As an AI PM, you’re probably tired of building AI Agents and don’t know how to monetize them. But what if I told you there’s a company adding $1 million ARR every 10 days with their AI agent? Zach Lloyd, CEO of Warp and former Google engineering leader, cracked the code. His terminal-based AI agent has 700,000+ active developers paying real money. This episode is his complete playb...

Today's Episode Here's what's happening right now: Someone can clone your voice from a few YouTube videos and call your help desk pretending to be you. AI can build a perfect fake of your login page in minutes. This isn't some distant future threat. Jack Hirsch, VP of Product at Okta, sees this happening every day. Okta protects millions of logins and Jack has a front-row seat to how AI is complet...

You use ChatGPT. But being an AI-powered PM means also using AI agents. In my slack poll, only 2% of you said you use AI agents for productivity. So I want to break that down and make it dead clear: 1) why you should use AI agents and 2) how you should build them. So in today’s episode, I’ve brought in Jacob Bank , former Director of PM at Google (Gmail, Calendar) and now CEO of the AI agent build...

AI agent PM roles are the fastest-growing, highest-paid positions in tech. These jobs pay $750K+ (TC in SF/NY) and are growing 2-3x faster than traditional PM roles. But most people don't know how to actually build AI agents. They think it's just ChatGPT with a fancy interface. Today I sat down with Mahesh Yadav, who's worked as a PM at Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. He's built AI agents at...