Product Growth Podcast

Aakash Gupta
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Product Growth Podcast

The latest insights into how great products grow, how to be a better PM or product leader, and how to get a PM job. www.news.aakashg.com

  1. 5H AGO

    Amplitude CEO: Demo, Story, and How They Build Product

    In this episode, Spenser (co-founder & CEO of Amplitude) shares how a failed AI voice assistant led to one of the most widely used product analytics platforms in the world. Plus a full live demo of Amplitude’s latest AI, session replay, and experimentation features! Brought to you by: WorkOS: Your App, Enterprise Ready Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturity Product Faculty: Get $500 off the AI PM certification with code AAKASH25 In this episode: Preview – 00:00:00 How Big Is Amplitude? – 00:01:07 Beginning of His Journey (From MIT, building SIRI before SIRI, and more) – 00:02:09 Ad (WorkOS) – 00:09:50 Ad (Amplitude) - 00:11:04 Unorthodox Routine While Building – 00:11:39 Lessons That Sum Up the Whole Journey – 00:13:23 Fighting the Established Analytics Market – 00:13:56 How They’re Different From Kissmetrics, Google Analytics, etc. – 00:16:42 First Version of Amplitude – 00:18:06 How They Transitioned to Enterprise – 00:21:26 Biggest Roadblocks He Faced From Start to IPO – 00:22:18 Going Public — Felt Good or Bad? – 00:27:17 Ad (AIPM) – 00:29:35 Hiring and Firing – 00:30:23 His Involvement in Product as CEO – 00:31:57 Amplitude Demo Begins – 00:34:50 If You're Implementing Amplitude for the First Time, Start Here – 00:38:13 Tracking an Event – 00:40:49 Diving Deep into Product Analytics – 00:42:02 Why You Should Pay for Amplitude (Even with BI & Free GA) – 00:45:15 Aakash Shares BI vs. Amplitude Anecdote – 00:47:20 How They've Overcome AI Hallucinations – 00:49:44 Limitations of “AskAmplitude?” – 00:50:31 Where Product Teams Spend the Most Time in Amplitude – 00:51:29 Creating a Segmentation Chart – 00:52:44 Future of AI at Amplitude – 01:01:20 How Amplitude Uses Amplitude to Build Amplitude – 01:02:22 Deep Dive on His Role as CEO and Influence on Product – 01:07:41 How Do They Plan? – 01:09:59 Analyst Report on Amplitude (Focus on NRR) – 01:12:46 How They’re Empowering Marketing Teams – 01:15:24 - Where to Find Spenser LinkedIn Amplitude(Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturity)- Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities. - I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Dr. Bart (where we dived into his story of going from Microsoft to 125 followers and how to crack interviews). Up next, we have episodes with: Pawel Huryn - 190K+ on LinkedIn, Fmr CPO Brad Schaefer - VP Product, Abrigo Matt Le May - Author, Impact-First Product Teams I’m so excited to share them with all of you. Get full access to Product Growth at www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

    1h 19m

  2. APR 11

    We Built an AI Agent to Automate PM in 73 mins (ZERO CODING)

    If you’ve ever wanted to know how the best product teams automate their workflows, scale systems, and build platforms that actually drive impact, this episode is for you. Brought to you by: Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturity Product Faculty: Get $500 off the AI PM certification with code AAKASH25 In this episode: Why Should People Watch This Episode – 00:00:00 How Airtable Reached $11.7 Billion Valuation – 00:01:18 How Airtable Is Different From Competitors – 00:03:01 Start of the Live Cooking Session – 00:07:17 How Can PMs Use Airtable AI to Automate Their Workflow – 00:07:36 Automating User Interviews – 00:08:16 Ad – 00:10:10 User Interviews Continued – 00:10:46 One Cool Thing About Airtable AI – 00:11:40 Sourcing Beta Participants – 00:20:02 Live Demo of Using CoBuilder (Airtable AI Developer Agent) for Aakash’s Podcast Guests Calendar – 00:27:08 Ad – 00:27:52 Demo Continued – 00:28:42 Demo on Automating More Stuff (Requests From Aakash) – 00:36:02 Aakash’s Reaction After the Demo – 00:38:46 How Airtable Uses Airtable – 00:41:16 How Airtable Builds Product – 00:45:28 Measuring ARR Impact – 00:53:48 What He Thinks About Fuzzier Associations to ARR – 00:54:23 Aakash Sharing Personal Story About ARR Scenario – 00:56:19 How Airtable Manages Roadmap Planning – 00:59:29 How to Go From PM to VP – 01:01:23 Talking About Struggles Building AI Features – 01:09:42 - Where to Find Anthony LinkedIn Airtable - Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities. - I hope you enjoyed the last episode with David Pereira (where we discussed why most managers are bullish*t managers). Up next, we have episodes with: Dr. Bart Jaworski - Senior PM, 125K+ on LinkedIn Spenser Skates - CEO and Founder, Amplitude Pawel Huryn - 190K+ on LinkedIn, Fmr CPO I’m so excited to share them with all of you. Get full access to Product Growth at www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

    1h 14m

  3. APR 8

    PMs Are Screwed (Here’s Why)

    You’re not ready for this! David Pereira exposes the 3 traps killing product teams, hot takes on b******t management, fake strategy, and what it really means to be a 10x PM. Brought to you by: Maven: Get $100 off David's Mastering Product Discovery course using my code AAKASHxMAVEN Product Faculty: Get $500 off the AI PM certification with code AAKASH25 Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturity In this episode: Why You Should Listen to This Podcast – 00:00:00 Ad – 00:01:20 Ad – 00:02:21 What Is Bullsh*t Product Management – 00:03:07 Aakash Sharing His First Full-Time Job Experience – 00:04:39 The Problem with the PM Job – 00:07:28 Sad Reality for Most PMs – 00:12:023 Common Traps for Most PMs – 00:15:25 Have You Been a Waiter Too? – 00:17:41 Navigating Your CEO's Endless Feature Requests (Role Play) – 00:23:40 One Thing Constant in Product Management Is “Challenges” (and How to Solve Them) – 00:26:14 Ad – 00:29:59 Solving Those Challenges (Continued) – 00:30:34 Summarizing What Strategy Health Check Includes – 00:38:04 They Say “Talk to Customers”, But You Don’t Have General Access – 00:40:50 Fixing Confirmation Bias in Interviews – 00:42:06 Summarizing Product Discovery Health Check – 00:43:20 Delivery Health Check – 00:43:33 What Worked for David in 2016 – 00:49:35 “I’m a Terrible Product Manager” – 00:51:24 “What Do All PMs Have in Common? Too Many Things on Their Plate” – 00:52:18 “Agile Is Dead. Scrum Is Dead. Everything Is Dead. We Know It All” – 00:56:29 How Can PMs Really Take Back the Driver’s Seat? – 00:58:53 Why You Should Look Bad in Your Job – 01:00:51 How David Is Spending His Time These Days – 01:01:58 - Where to Find David LinkedIn Courses Newsletter Untrapping Product Teams Book Services - Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities. - I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Kate Syuma (where we dived deep into 25 product designs). Up next, we have episodes with: Dr. Bart Jaworski - Senior PM, 125K+ on LinkedIn Spenser Skates - CEO and Founder, Amplitude Anthony Maggio - VP Product, Airtable I’m so excited to share them with all of you. Get full access to Product Growth at www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

    1h 5m

  4. APR 4

    25 Product Designs That Will Make You Jealous

    Ex-Miro design lead Kate Syuma helped scale Miro to 20M users. Now she’s breaking down LIVE 25 world-class product flows so you can steal what works for growth, onboarding, and activation. - Brought to you by: WorkOS: Your App, Enterprise Ready Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturity Kate also runs a 3-week live course User-Centric Product-Led Growth. Use code AAKASHxMAVEN for $100 off. In this episode: Web Page Breakdown Examples Dropbox & Linear – 00:03:30 Rows – 00:06:47 Amplemarket – 00:09:07 Signup Flow Examples Figma / FigJam – 00:10:53 Dropbox (Signup perspective) – 00:12:48 Loom – 00:14:52 Grammarly – 00:16:10 FigJam (Post-signup) – 00:17:25 Onboarding Examples Canva – 00:21:01 Slack – 00:23:49 Notion – 00:25:23 Miro – 00:28:58 Ad Break Ad – 00:30:01 Miro (Continued) – 00:30:48 Sharing & Invitation Flow Examples Linear – 00:32:47 Airbnb – 00:34:16 Notion & Figma (Invitation flow) – 00:38:11 Upgradation Flow Examples Riverside – 00:41:07 Grammarly (Premium upgrade) – 00:42:45 Canva – 00:43:51 Loom – 00:45:29 Miro – 00:46:25 Figma – 00:46:59 Wrap-Up What Kate is up to these days – 00:48:38 - Where to Find Kate LinkedIn GrowthMates Website GrowthMates Newsletter GrowthMates Podcast YT 3-Week Maven Course - Use code AAKASHxMAVEN for $100 off. - Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities. - I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Bryan Helmig (where we learned how to draft your email with MCP and AI). Up next, we have episodes with: David Pereira - Author of Untrapping Product Teams Dr. Bart Jaworski - Senior PM, 125K+ on LinkedIn Spenser Skates - CEO and Founder, Amplitude I’m so excited to share them with all of you. Get full access to Product Growth at www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

    50 min
  5. Use AI To Draft Your Email and Slack Messages with MCP

    APR 1

    Use AI To Draft Your Email and Slack Messages with MCP

    This is wild! Bryan Helmig LIVE shows how to turn AI models into real agents using MCP and Zapier to send Slack messages, draft emails, and automate workflows without writing a single line of code. - Brought to you by: Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturity Maven: Get $100 off their courses with code AAKASHxMAVEN Product Faculty: Get $500 off the AI PM certification with code AAKASH25 In this episode: Why Should People Watch This Podcast – 00:00:00 Ads – 00:01:34 What is MCP (Model Context Protocol) – 00:03:03 Does MCP Only Work with Anthropic? – 00:04:33 Why Zapier’s Take on MCP Matters – 00:05:43 Live Demo 1: AI Agent Sends Slack Message via MCP – 00:07:52 The Real Limitations of MCP and LLMs – 00:11:27 Live Demo 2: ChatGPT Drafts Gmail Replies Automatically – 00:15:56 Live Demo 3: Claude-Powered Slack Bot That Responds with Jokes – 00:23:18 Ad – 00:30:06 Why AI Needs Structure (Not Freeform Outputs) – 00:30:53 How Zapier Builds AI Features for the Real World – 00:31:54 How Zapier Structures Teams Around AI Work – 00:36:28 Zapier’s Culture of Fast AI Prototyping – 00:39:03 - Where to Find Bryan LinkedIn Zapier Zapier AI agents Zapier MCP - Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities. - I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Lewis Lin (where we discussed how to nail Product Management Interviews). Up next, we have episodes with: Kate Syuma - Ex. Head of Growth Design at Miro David Pereira - Author of Untrapping Product Teams Dr. Bart Jaworski - Senior PM, 125K+ on LinkedIn I’m so excited to share them with all of you. Get full access to Product Growth at www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

    43 min

  6. MAR 28

    500,000 Professionals Have Used His Book To Crack Interviews at Big Companies

    When it comes to product management interviews, there’s no more authoritative voice than Lewis Lin (author of the legendary Decode and Conquer). His books (over 500,000+ copies sold) have helped hundreds of thousands of PMs land jobs at top tech companies.Today, he shares everything he knows about nailing PM interviews: - Brought to you by: Maven: Get $100 off my curation of their top courses GibsonAI: The awesome new AI Database Engineer startup Attio: The next generation CRM built natively for AI In this episode: 00:01:38 - "Decode and Conquer" helped Aakash land a $40K raise00:02:40 - Why Lewis is rewriting "Decode and Conquer" from scratch00:04:18 - AD: Amplitude Digital Experience Assessment00:04:52 - The rise of interview assignments00:10:04 - How to excel at interview assignments while juggling a full-time job00:15:04 - AD: Maven Courses00:16:14 - The 6 critical types of metrics questions you'll face00:19:57 - Lewis's advice on the best way to prepare for metrics questions00:26:51 - Why mock interviews matter most00:31:30 - AD: Maven AI PM Certification00:32:14 - How to discover real pain points using the GRR method00:35:15 - Coming up with thoughtful product solutions that stand out00:42:21 - How to approach system design interviews00:46:15 - The most common behavioral questions PMs get asked00:50:29 - Mistakes candidates make when answering behavioral questions00:54:51 - Misconceptions candidates still have after reading his book00:57:37 - What it takes to get a PM interview in 202501:02:26 - What Lewis is focused on now - Where to Find Lewis LinkedIn YouTube Website Medium Most famous books: - Decode and Conquer - The Product Manager Interview - Be the Greatest Product Manager Ever - Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities. - I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Eric Simons (where we built a remote job board with Bolt). Up next, we have episodes with: Bryan Helmig - CTO and Founder of Zapier Kate Syuma - Ex. Head of Growth Design at Miro David Pereira - Author of Untrapping Product Teams I’m so excited to share them with all of you. Get full access to Product Growth at www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

    1h 7m

  7. MAR 25

    Bolt Tutorial from the CEO: We Live Build a Remote Job board

    Eric Simons, Bolt, joins us to live-build a remote job board app — a clone of Remote OK — using Bolt’s AI-native coding environment. This episode may be a better experience on YouTube or Spotify, which have video. - Brought to you by: Maven: Get $100 off my curation of their top courses GibsonAI: The awesome new AI Database Engineer startup Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturity - In this episode: Building remote job board in Bolt - 00:00:00 Ad - 00:04:30 Important Checklist - 00:06:00 Creating Supabase - 00:07:48 Writing PRDs in Bolt - 00:12:04 API to scrap jobs into Bolt - 00:18:19 Debugging the error - 00:23:14 Ad - 00:26:21 Integrating the API - 00:26:57 Fixing error with cached jobs - 00:33:43 Deploying to web - 00:42:28 Uploading the code to GitHub - 00:44:38 Adoption trends for Bolt - 00:52:26 Mobile App tutorial - 00:53:47 Bolt vs. other AI tools - 01:02:01 - Where to Find Eric LinkedIn Bolt.new Company - Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities. - I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Tal Raviv (where we built an AI PM in only 58 minutes). Up next, we have episodes with: Lewis Lin - Author, Decode and Conquer Bryan Helmig - CTO and Founder of Zapier Kate Syuma - Ex. Head of Growth Design at Miro I’m so excited to share them with all of you. Get full access to Product Growth at www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

    1h 9m

  8. MAR 21

    We Built an AI Product Manager in 58 mins (Claude, ChatGPT, Loom + Notion AI)

    Today, we’re back on "using AI like a pro" series — this time with Tal Raviv, known for building powerful AI copilots for product managers. And just like Colin’s episode, we’re going deep again. 9 real-world PM workflows. All powered by AI. All demonstrated live. If you're looking to 2x your output without burning out, this 75 Minutes AI PM Copilot masterclass is for you. - Brought to you by: Maven: Tal runs a 3-week course Build Your PM AI Copilot. Use code AAKASHxMAVEN for $100 off. WorkOS: Your app, enterprise ready GibsonAI: Your AI Database Engineer - We're covering: Analysing Qualitative Survey Results - 00:00:00 Context Window in Claude – 00:02:09 Ad – 00:04:10 Ad – 00:05:02 Best Thing About AI – 00:06:15 Context for Making the Project Effective – 00:07:31 Use Case of AI for PMs – 00:09:10 Integration with Google Calendar for Data – 00:12:37 When to Edit the Prompt – 00:14:30 Why to Care About RAG – 00:17:08 A/B Testing for PMs – 00:19:45 Result of Bad User Experience – 00:22:24 Reverse Simulating a Hard Conversation – 00:24:44 Ad – 00:28:49 Creating Notion Document – 00:30:14 Work Unfairly in an Unfair Role – 00:30:59 Bug During Recording – 00:34:08 Recording a Whole 30-Minute Meeting – 00:37:09 Recording a Loom – 00:38:00 Hide, Ignore or Automate Slack – 00:41:59 Managing Notifications on Slack in Deep Work Mode – 00:46:40 Head Start on Discovery with Product Scrapbooking – 00:50:04 Notion AI Search – 00:55:00 Tal’s Future Goals – 00:56:16 - Where to find Tal LinkedIn Twitter Maven Course: Build Your Personal PM AI Copilot - Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities. - I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Ethan Evans (where we dived into how he’s making $950k per year, post retirement, working part time). Up next, we have episodes with: Lewis Lin - Author, Decode and Conquer Kate Syuma - Ex. Head of Growth Design at Miro Eric Simons - CEO and Founder, Bolt I’m so excited to share them with all of you. Get full access to Product Growth at www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

    59 min
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    The latest insights into how great products grow, how to be a better PM or product leader, and how to get a PM job. www.news.aakashg.com

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    • Creator
      Aakash Gupta
    • Years Active
      2024 - 2025
    • Episodes
      66
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      © Aakash Gupta
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