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The Growth Podcast

by Aakash Gupta · English

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Join 500K+ for deep dives on AI + product management. After spending a decade plus in product, I now interview PM's most insightful experts. www.news.aakashg.com

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How to Build an AI Customer Research Agent in Claude Code

Building an AI customer research agent using Claude Code to run scaled, email-based “back-and-forth” conversations with customers at key funnel drop-off points, then generating grounded research…

13 Nov 2026 · 59m · 27 chapters

How to Survive AI as a SaaS Company

Whether SaaS can survive the AI era, and how to defend value amid SaaS multiple compression.

10 Nov 2026 · 1h 7m · 29 chapters

What an AI-Native Product Team Actually Looks Like at Salesforce

Jayesh Govindarajan explains what “AI-native” product and engineering teams look like at Salesforce, using their AgentForce/“harness” approach and an agent development lifecycle called ADLC (agent…

3 Nov 2026 · 57m · 21 chapters

How to steal your way to a hit product, with Mark Pincus (founder, Zynga)

Mark Pincus argues that “copying” can be moral arbitrage and a product strategy, then lays out his Proven Better New framework (Proven = pixel-level proven experience to legally copy; Better = 10/10…

26 Oct 2026 · 55m · 22 chapters

Claude Code for Growth: Complete Masterclass with James McAulay

Using Claude Code as an “agentic growth operating system” to run growth work (SEO, ads, product marketing, experiments) inside the terminal with goal-driven guardrails, weekly/monthly retros, and…

20 Oct 2026 · 1h 8m · 27 chapters

How you need to think about product strategy in the age of AI

Product strategy in the age of AI—why “AI everywhere” isn’t a strategy, what to measure, and how to make real choices that let teams say no.

14 Oct 2026 · 1h 12m · 23 chapters

The Roadmap to Becoming a Product Builder, with Ankit Shukla

Whether “Product Builder” is a real, in-demand role (vs hype), who can become one, expected pay premiums, and a step-by-step roadmap/framework (“POWER”) for using AI to build products with measurable…

8 Oct 2026 · 1h 8m · 26 chapters

n8n CEO: Why we aren’t dead, how to build great AI products, and what I look for in an AI PM

n8n CEO Jan Oberhauser argues n8n isn’t “dead” despite hype cycles around AI agent tools.

5 Oct 2026 · 1h 9m · 24 chapters

How to Get a ‘Transformative’ AI Fluency Rating as a PM, with Wade Foster | CEO of Zapier

How product managers can earn a “transformative” AI fluency rating in 2026, using Zapier’s AI fluency rubric and examples of AI-powered PM workflows (including “AI slop” avoidance and accountability).

24 Sep 2026 · 1h 14m · 30 chapters

Inside the AI Stack of an $8.3B AI Company’s Product Team | Together AI

Together AI’s product team explains how they coordinate AI-assisted product development using a centralized “product repository” (context + skills), open-source/own AI harnesses, and an evaluation…

14 Sep 2026 · 59m · 23 chapters

How to Build Effective Product Loops in Claude Code, with Chief AI and Product Officer at JobNimbus, Tyler Folkman

Building “product loops” (self-improving agent workflows) in Claude Code/agentic systems, contrasting with one-off prompting.

4 Sep 2026 · 1h 9m · 20 chapters

How to build a Company Operating System with Hermes and OpenClaw

Building an “AI-native company operating system” for product teams using Hermes and OpenClaw, centered on an enterprise knowledge graph and agentic workflows that automate status reporting, feature…

28 Aug 2026 · 1h 6m · 23 chapters

How Srini Raghavan helped $3.4B SaaS Giant Freshworks Embrace the AI PDLC

Srini Raghavan (Freshworks CPO) argues that AI will replace linear product roles (PM → UX → engineering) with “product builder” workflows, and shows Freshworks’ AI PDLC (AI product development…

24 Aug 2026 · 1h 5m · 23 chapters

3x CPO Oji Udezue on the Essential Claude Skills for PMs

How product managers should use LLM “product judgment” skills (viability gates, sharp problem tests, market research, PRDs, testing/CI setup) alongside coding skills to build AI-native products…

6 Aug 2026 · 1h 5m · 22 chapters

How to Build Frontier-Lab Quality Evals with Daniel McKinnon, ex-PM at Meta, Google

How product managers and teams should build “frontier-lab quality” evaluation suites for GenAI, especially for agentic, multi-step tasks.

28 Jul 2026 · 57m · 15 chapters

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