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Product Strategy Masterclass from Global Authority on Strategy May 19, 2025

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Tired of "strategic roadmaps" nobody follows?

Roger Martin reveals why 95% of companies fail to build a strategy that actually drives results and how to craft one that wins real customers, at scale.

Brought to you by:

WorkOS: Your App, Enterprise Ready

Amplitude: Try their 2-min assessment of your company’s digital maturity

Linear: Plan and build products like the best

Timestamps:

Preview - 00:00:00

Myth About Strategy - 00:02:13

Understanding What Are Inputs - 00:05:54

The 5 Question Framework - 00:06:30

Walmart’s Fumble - 00:08:48

Ad - 00:10:38

Ad - 00:11:51

Where Business Schools Are Failing - 00:12:35

Anthropic Vs OpenAI - 00:27:11

Ad - 00:30:19

Difference Between Planning & Strategy - 00:35:52

How to Leverage Your Position for Strategy - 00:41:23

SouthWest’s Success Story - 00:43:16

Predicting the Future As A Strategist – 00:54:20

Thinking Template for Product Leaders - 00:57:20

The Autopilot Curse - 00:58:40

Exploiting Your Competitors Mixed Motives - 01:09:45

Closing Notes - 01:11:20

Key Takeaways

* Most "strategy" is just budgeting with prose. According to Martin, at least 90% of strategy out in the world is merely a list of laudable initiatives that don't fit together to create a compelling reason for customers to choose you over competitors.

* Strategy compels customers to take desired actions. The core purpose of strategy is making integrated choices that cause customers to pull money from their pockets and give it to you instead of someone else, not just planning activities.

* Five questions make a complete strategy. A real strategy answers: What's your winning aspiration? Where will you play? How will you win? What capabilities must you have? What management systems do you need to build and maintain those capabilities?

* The best competitive advantage exploits what competitors "won't" do. The most powerful strategic positions come from understanding competitors' mixed motives. Things they could do but won't because it would hurt their core business (like Walmart avoiding e-commerce to protect store investments).

* Strategy works when your "where to play" and "how to win" form a matched pair. Your choice of market segment should enable a distinctive advantage, and your advantage should be perfect for your chosen segment—they must reinforce each other.

* Business schools teach tools, not strategy. MBA programs focus on analytical frameworks like five forces and resource-based view, but rarely teach how to create an integrated strategy that makes real-world choices.

* Product managers often focus on initiatives instead of strategy. The typical mistake is creating a roadmap of features without first determining where to play and how to win, making the roadmap an input rather than an output of strategy.

* Great strategists don't plan for the future to resemble the past. Martin emphasizes having an explicit theory about how the future will be different, while constantly updating this theory as new information emerges.

* Southwest Airlines' winning strategy came from integrated choices. Their decisions to use only one plane type, avoid hubs, eliminate seat assignments, and pay workers more for flexibility all reinforced their 15-minute gate turn strategy.

* Strategy requires what Martin calls "Bayesian updating". The key is continuously asking: "What would have to be true for our strategy to work?" and watching those assumptions like a hawk, updating your strategy as facts change.

Check it out on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

Where to Find Roger

LinkedIn: Roger Martin

Some of His Awesome Books:

Playing to Win

A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness

Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking

Related Podcasts:

Write a Great Product Strategy: Lessons from Ravi Mehta

How to Develop Your Product Strategy, with Satyajeet Salgar

Build a Snap Product Strategy: How to Succeed as a PM and Product Leader

Up Next

I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Andy (where we vibe coded our way to build a $1M AI app). Up next, we have episodes with:

Jeremy Epling - CPO, Vanta

Bret @DesignJoy - Running Solo $2M/yr Design Agency

Harish Mukhami - Fmr Head of Product, Siri; CPO, Leaflink

Finally, check out my latest deep dive if you haven’t yet: The European Tech Market Map: Biggest Players, Startups, and Job Opportunities

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Vibe Coding Tutorial in 72 mins, No Technical Background Needed (Windsurf) May 16, 2025

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Ever had a killer product idea… but no clue how to actually build it? You’re not alone.

But here’s the good news: You don’t need to know how to code.

Andy Carroll, a 15-year PM veteran (and vibe coding wizard), shows you exactly how.

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Maven: I’ve just launched my unique curation of their top courses

Miro: The innovation workspace: your team’s canvas

Amplitude: Try their 2-min assessment of your company’s digital maturity

Timestamps:Preview – 00:00:00

What Is Vibe Coding? – 00:01:57

Vibe Coding Tutorial Begins – 00:05:18

Ad – 00:10:32

Ad – 00:11:20

Building a Full-Stack Mobile App – 00:12:16

Creating the AI Sports Reporter – 00:18:12

Developing AI Tools Live – 00:21:22

Ad – 00:30:33

AI Sports Reporter (Part 2) – 00:31:25

Reviewing the Learning Page – 00:34:18

Using Prompts to Generate a Brand Logo – 00:42:04

Designing an Infographic – 00:46:49

Why Prompt Quality Is Everything – 00:50:21 Recap of the Live Build Session – 00:53:59

How PMs Should Use These Tools – 00:58:34

The Future of Vibe Coding for PMs – 01:00:15

What Is Aisle Partners? – 01:04:08

Should PMs Consult, Stay Full-Time, or Build Their Own Product? – 01:07:24

Closing Notes – 01:11:20

Key Takeaways

Vibe coding puts product creation in non-technical hands. Even after 15 years as a PM, Andy can't write code from scratch. But AI tools like Windsurf and Lovable made it possible for him to collaborate with AI to build real products without coding skills.

Front-load your planning to avoid rebuilding everything. He painfully learned that diving straight into coding creates expensive headaches. So, it’s best to use AI to draft strategy documents and architecture plans first, preventing the frustration of multiple false starts.

Set up a simple deployment pipeline immediately. GitHub for code, Netlify for deployment, and Superbase for databases is his recommended stack. Deploy frequently and early as waiting too long means facing hundreds of errors at once instead of fixing small issues.

Create PM deliverables in hours, not weeks. He built a detailed product roadmap and strategy documents in a single afternoon. These become living references in GitHub that team members can access anytime, eliminating version control nightmares.

Watch out for AI's eagerness to change your code. Windsurf has two modes: safe "chat" and powerful "write." Only toggle to write mode when you want changes made, otherwise, AI might drastically refactor your entire page when you just want a font color change.

Switch AI models when you hit roadblocks. Different models have different strengths. He uses Claude 3.7 for brainstorming, DeepSeek for specific tasks, and switches to GPT-4 when stuck. A fresh model may solve problems that the first one couldn't.

Validate ideas faster than ever before. Skip weeks of perfecting logos, brands, and pixel-perfect designs. Build something "good enough" quickly, get real feedback, and iterate based on actual user responses rather than internal debates.

Target your creativity where it matters most. AI tools eliminate 90% of implementation busy work. Use templates for standard elements like landing pages, then focus your team's energy exclusively on the features that truly differentiate your product.

Automate status reports and presentations. He generates comprehensive project updates directly from his roadmap progress, feeding them into presentation tools like Gamma. This eliminates hours spent creating the same PowerPoint slides teams have made for decades.

People are launching profitable side hustles with vibe coding. Entrepreneurs like Peter Levels and John Rush build and monetize micro-SaaS products through vibe coding. The approach allows testing ideas quickly and pivoting without emotion when something doesn't work.

Check it out on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

Where to Find Andy:

LinkedIn: Andy Carroll

His AI implementation company: Aisle Partners

Related Podcasts:

Pawel Huryn: How to Actually Become an AI PM, Complete Course

Tutorial of Top 5 AI Prototyping Tools

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

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

Up Next

I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Matt (where we discussed how to build a $100M AI company). Up next, we have episodes with:

Roger Martin - Author, Playing to Win

Jeremy Epling - CPO, Vanta

Bret @DesignJoy - Running Solo $1.9M/yr Design Agency

Finally, check out my latest deep dive if you haven’t yet: The European Tech Market Map: Biggest Players, Startups, and Job Opportunities

If you want to advertise, email productgrowthppp at gmail.

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15 Steps to Build a $100M+ AI Company (From Someone Who Has Done It) May 12, 2025

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If you’ve ever thought you’re a great PM and should build something of your own with AI, today’s episode is for you.

Matt, who built a $1B+ AI product company LogRocket, shares the full roadmap on building a $100M company.

Brought to you by:

Miro: The innovation workspace: your team’s canvas

Linear: Plan and build products like the best

Timestamps:

Introduction - 00:00

Step 1: Build Projects - 01:23

Step 2: Develop Skills - 04:31

Step 3: Find Opportunities - 09:08

Ad: Miro - 10:09 Ad: Amplitude - 11:06

Product Growth Framework - 11:38

Step 4: Build MVP - 12:51

Step 5: Launch Strategy - 13:51

Step 6: Raise Funding - 16:40

Step 7: Growth Channels - 21:15

Step 8: Build Teams - 23:44

Step 9: Hire Executives - 26:21

Ad: Linear - 30:31

PM Workflow Solution - 31:29

Step 10: Funding Growth - 31:30

Step 11: Second Product - 35:29

Step 12: Expand Marketing - 39:28

Step 13: Product Portfolio - 41:53

Step 14: Develop Partnerships - 45:49

Step 15: Global Domination - 48:07

Founder's Lowest Point - 48:52

tarting Today's Advice - 50:12

Closing - 53:06

Takeaways:

* Start by building lots of projects. Build, build and build, just like Matt did since elementary school. His mobile game hit millions of users while an app he built for introverts failed completely. These hands-on experiences teach you more than any classroom ever could.

* Develop specialized skills. Find your superpower skill combination. It was Matt's coding plus design expertise that created the perfect foundation for LogRocket. So what unique skills can you combine to solve problems others can't?

* Deeply understand a problem domain. His time at Meteor showed him front-end development challenges firsthand. Put yourself in environments where you'll experience problems worth solving. Your insider knowledge will help you identify gaps that others miss completely.

* Build an MVP that tackles a specific challenge. His team created user session replay technology by working nights after their day jobs. So, start with something small but valuable that demonstrates your core insight and solves a specific pain point.

* Launch strategically with momentum. You can orchestrate your launch like a Hacker News campaign with friends ready to upvote. A coordinated push can generate thousands of day-one signups when executed with precision and timing.

* Establish sustainable growth channels. LogRocket's technical blog became their acquisition engine with 200 high-quality posts monthly. Find one channel that works and then double down on it hard before diversifying your marketing efforts.

* Be selective about fundraising. Matt successfully grew to $5K monthly revenue before raising $500K from Matrix Partners for his startup. In competitive markets, funding helps you outpace rivals, but remember each market requires a different capital approach to win.

* Focus intensely on recruiting. Make hiring your obsession once you have product-market fit. Great early hires attract more great talent naturally, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of exceptional team building.

* Choose executives that match your culture. Cultural alignment trumps raw skill when hiring executives. Look for leaders who enhance your existing culture rather than those who want to demolish and rebuild with their own imported approach.

* Expand your product portfolio deliberately. Building second and third products is crucial for continued growth. LogRocket expanded from session replay to AI-powered issue detection, creating a broader suite while serving the same developer and product manager customers.

Where to Find Matt

LogRocket

Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities.

I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Phyl Terry (Author, Never Search Alone). Up next, we have episodes with:

Andy Carroll - 15 years in PM, Vibe Coding Expert

Roger Martin - Author, Playing to Win

Jeremy Epling - CPO, Vanta

I’m so excited to share them with all of you.

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Never Search Alone: Review from the Author May 06, 2025

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If you're job hunting in 2025 and aiming for roles at top companies, this might be the best podcast you'll watch all year.

Phyl Terry (Author of “Never Search Alone” book, loved by thousands of PMs) shares the overlooked system used by top execs, Google VPs, and senior operators to actually get hired even in the toughest job markets.

Brought to you by:

* Linear: Plan and build products like the best

*Maven: I’ve just launched my unique curation of their top courses

* Amplitude: Try their 2-min assessment of your company’s digital maturity

Key Takeaways

* Everyone gets job search anxiety. Yes, everyone. Even Google VPs and C-level executives feel insecure when looking for work. This universal anxiety is precisely why you need support during the process.

* Group support flips anxiety into strength. Meeting weekly with a group of 4-5 job seekers creates accountability and shifts emotions from insecurity to hope, motivation, and confidence. Basically the four key elements you need for a successful search.

* Think of yourself as the product you're selling. "Candidate market fit"applies product thinking to your job search by finding where your skills intersect with market demand, just like product-market fit.

* Being specific about your target role increases opportunities. Counter to intuition, narrowing your focus (like "Director of Product at a Series B health tech company") makes you more memorable to your network and helps you stand out to recruiters.

* The "spray and pray" approach is a waste of energy. Sending resumes everywhere without focusing on candidate market fit is like launching products without understanding customers. Yes, it does feel productive but it rarely works.

* Ask others how they see your strengths. Your "listening tour" means gathering honest feedback from former colleagues and recruiters about where your skills actually fit in today's market.

* Create a "Job Mission with OKRs" document for interviews. This draft shows how you think about the role's responsibilities and objectives, demonstrating initiative and competence while clarifying expectations before accepting the job.

* First negotiate what you need to succeed. When receiving an offer, first discuss what you need to achieve the agreed objectives (team training, technical debt resolution, resources). This is something that greatly impresses employers and sets you up for future success.

* Always ask permission before introductions. Instead of sending cold introductions, ask your contact to first request permission from the target person. As this shows respect and dramatically increases response rates.

* Market conditions change what jobs you can get. During economic downturns, you may need to target lower positions than during boom times, but that’s okay. Since, in the long term it’s your adaptability that keeps your career advancing despite market shifts.

Check it out on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

Where to Find Phyl

LinkedIn: Phyl Terry

Website: phyl.org

Book: Never Search Alone

Related Podcasts:

Diego Granados (AI PM at Google) - The Ultimate Guide to Your Next Product Management Job

Dr. Nancy Li - Everything You Need To Know About 2025 Job Search Masterclass

Collin Lernell - How to Get a Product Leadership Job

Up Next

I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Aatir Abdul Rauf (where we discussed both of ours three viral posts and lessons you could learn). Up next, we have episodes with:

Matt Arbesfeld - Founder and CEO, LogRocket

Andy Carroll - 15 years in PM, Vibe Coding Expert

Roger Martin - Author, Playing to Win

Finally, check out my latest deep dive if you haven’t yet: The Art of Winning Interviews via Referral: Complete Guide

If you want to advertise, email productgrowthppp at gmail.

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

How I Wrote 3 of My Biggest LinkedIn Posts - And The New Trio (PM-PMM-Growth) May 04, 2025

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Today, we have a very fun episode.

We’re teaming up with my long-time collaborator and friend Aatir Abdul Rauf—who’s now a VP of Marketing and spent the past decade in senior product roles.

We’re each reviewing 3 of each other’s favorite posts.

Today, we’re chatting about:

* The New Trio - 00:01:34

*Growth Loops - 00:20:28

*The Languages of Product Management - 00:36:28

*5 Lessons from Netflix’s decline - 00:46:24

*Roadmap isn’t a strategy - 00:51:30

* My viral post of all time - 00:53:39

Brought to you by:

* WorkOS: Your app, enterprise ready

* Linear: Plan and build products like the best

* Amplitude: Try their 2-min assessment of your company’s digital maturity

Key Takeaways

* There’s a new trio in town. We all grew up on the “PM + designer + engineer” model. He advocates for the new trio: PM, PMM, and Growth. It’s a very important concept to think of. PMs build, PMMs tell the story, Growth makes it scale. If even one of those is missing, good luck sustaining anything.

* PMMs are the unsung heroes of real product impact. Most teams either ignore the role or treat it like launch copywriting. But without a PMM, users don’t understand the product. You can ship the most powerful feature ever but if no one knows it exists or why it matters, it’s worthless.

* Growth isn’t the first thing; it’s the multiplier. You don’t bolt on a growth loop day one. You ship → PM & PMM find what clicks → then growth turns it into a loop. Premature growth is how startups/teams burn cash and lose trust.

* PMF alone isn’t enough, you need sustainable PMF. You can hit PMF with a few power users… but what happens when the market shifts? You’ll not be able to sustain. So, always build products that can sustain themselves in the longer run.

* Alignment is the only way to scale. The trio (PM, PMM, Growth) needs shared answers on: what vision are we chasing?, what’s our real North Star?, and where are users actually getting stuck? This kind of clarity among everyone saves months of confusion later.

* You can’t copy-paste growth loops, you apply them to your context. He shared his 13 types of loops and literally you should have it on your desk if you do anything with growth. The real insight is pick one that supports your product and the whole ecosystem at the given moment. The one that fits your product’s natural behavior. If you try to force it, it will break.

* PMs need to be multilingual. If you can’t speak Salesian to sales, Designees to design, and Techugu to engineering… You’re not going to get buy-in. Remember, you’re not just planner anymore, you’re the translator. If you want to build your influence, you need to learn their language.

* Distribution is part of product; not just marketing. This part will hit hard. You might’ve built features that worked beautifully… but went completely unnoticed. Why? No in-app education, no onboarding touch, no internal enablement. Shipping =/= adoption.

* Content is product and packaging is UX. We also touched down on our content creation journey. We both broke down what made our biggest posts go viral.Here’s what we’ve learned: People don’t share content because it’s clever. They share it because it makes them feel understood. Same rule applies to features, by the way.

* You go viral by being useful, not loud. Every high-performing post we had started with: “What’s a real problem I face as a PM?” Then it was turned into a visual or framework others could actually apply. That’s the bar. That’s how you build signal that spreads.

Check it out on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

Where to Find Aatir

LinkedIn: Aatir Abdul Rauf

Newsletter: Behind Product Lines

Related Podcasts:

* Marty Cagan - Marty shares how irreplaceable PMs build products that drive real business outcomes.

* Melissa Perri - Melissa shows how to tie product work directly to the company's existential goals.

* Jaryd Hermann - We dove deep into Product-Led Growth (PLG)

Up Next

I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Matt LeMay (Author, Impact-First Teams on how to build $1m+ product team). Up next, we have episodes with:

Phyl Terry - Author, Never Search Alone

Matt Arbesfeld - Founder and CEO, LogRocket

Andy Carroll - 15 years in PM, Vibe Coding Expert

Finally, check out my latest deep dive if you haven’t yet: The Art of Winning Interviews via Referral: Complete Guide

If you want to advertise, email productgrowthppp at gmail.

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

Do THIS to Build a $1M+ Product Team (Matt Lemay, ex Google, Bitly PM) Apr 29, 2025

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Imagine a Product Management content creator who… Reddit actually likes? Yep, the most “complain-y” part of the internet actually loves Matt LeMay. His book Product Management in Practice, consistently gets praise there.

So, when I heard he was launching a second book, that too on the important subject of how to be impact-oriented as a product team, I had to have him on.

Today, we’re chatting about:

* Impact-First Product Teams - 01:13

* How to Win the Love of Reddit - 14:38

* Breaking the "Low Impact Death Spiral" - 31:14

* How His Business Breaks Down as an Author - 53:15

Brought to you by:

* Linear: Plan and build products like the best

* Miro: The innovation workspace: your team’s canvas

* Amplitude: Try their 2-min assessment of your company’s digital maturity

Key Takeaways

* The business expects a return on its investment in product teams—with teams costing roughly $1 million annually, you must proactively manage the conversation about why your work matters to the business.

* Most organizations perpetuate low-impact work through the "low impact death spiral"—teams choose easier, less scrutinized projects that lead to complicated products, making high-impact work even harder, which further incentivizes low-impact work.

* Understanding your business's next existential milestone is critical—whether it's raising funding, hitting quarterly revenue targets, or expanding to new markets, this determines how you should measure your team's success.

* The most commercially-minded product leaders are often the happiest—by accepting that success depends on factors outside your control, you can focus on contributing what you can and find greater satisfaction in your work.

* Many product teams have goals stored in multiple disconnected places—this creates confusion about what success actually looks like and makes it impossible to drive day-to-day decision-making.

* Draw a direct line from your work to business impact—keep your goals no more than "one step away" from company goals, using clear statements like "converting X single-product users to multi-product users will contribute Y revenue."

* Breaking free of Silicon Valley best practices is liberating—most companies operate in different commercial contexts than big tech, requiring different approaches and tradeoffs.

* The question every team should ask: "If you were CEO, would you fully fund this team?"—this mindset shift helps people understand the resource investment their team represents and evaluate their true impact.

* Product managers should prioritize clarity over comfort—addressing miscommunications or misconceptions immediately prevents much bigger problems down the road, even if it feels awkward.

* Platform teams can demonstrate impact by directly connecting to the metrics of teams they support—they should focus on how their work helps other teams deliver more impact or deliver impact more quickly.

Check it out on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube.

Where to Find Matt

* Books:

* "Impact First Product Teams"

* "Product Management in Practice"

* LinkedIn: Matt LeMay

* Website: https://mattlemay.com/

Related Podcasts:

* Marty Cagan - Marty shares how irreplaceable PMs build products that drive real business outcomes.

* Melissa Perri - Melissa shows how to tie product work directly to the company's existential goals.

* Ed Biden - Ed and I talk about the cost and ROI of product teams, and how to prove your ROI.

Up Next

I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Brad Schaefer (VP of Product at $1B+ Abrigo on How to go from PM to VP). Up next, we have episodes with:

* Aatir Abdul Rauf - VP Marketing, VFairs; 70K+ on LinkedIn

* Phyl Terry - Author, Never Search Alone

* Matt Arbesfeld - Founder and CEO, LogRocket

Finally, check out my latest deep dive if you haven’t yet: Most People are Building AI Products Wrong - Here's How to do it Right

If you want to advertise, email productgrowthppp at gmail.

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How to Go from PM to VP - My Story Apr 26, 2025

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Two VPs (Aakash & Brad) candidly discuss how they went from their first PM job to VP, what actually helped them (no gatekeeping), and how you can do the same.

Brought to you by:

Linear: Plan and build products like the best

Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturity

In this episode:

Trailer – 00:00

Intro to Brad & Abrigo – 01:25

How we Became PMs - 2:55

How to Grow from PM to Senior PM – 07:21

Aakash’s Journey from PM to Senior PM – 09:58

What Really Drives Promotions (Career Matrix) – 14:12

Ad (Linear) – 16:58

Ad (Amplitude) - 17:50

Deep Dive: Using the Career Matrix for Growth – 18:25

Moving from Senior PM to VP – 20:49

What It Takes to Get Promoted from IC to Manager – 26:51

This One Behavior Changes Everything (But Few PMs Do It) – 28:36

Ad (Attio) - 29:40

How to Be Seen as a Leader - 30:43

Brad’s Own Promotion Case to Manager – 34:47

Path from Manager to Director – 37:40

Aakash on Influencing a Company Without the Title – 38:48

What Helped Aakash & Brad Reach the VP Level – 48:47

Advice for PMs Who Want to Reach VP in Under 10 Years – 53:38

Where to Find Brad

Abrigo

Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities.

I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Pawel Huryn (Complete Course: AI Product Management). Up next, we have episodes with:

Matt Le May - How to be Impact-First

Aatir Abdul Rauf - VP Marketing, VFairs; 70K+ on LinkedIn

Phyl Terry - Author, Never Search Alone

I’m so excited to share them with all of you.

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

Complete Course: AI Product Management Apr 22, 2025

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In today's podcast, Pawel Huryn shows you every key skill to become an AI PM. We go from basics to expert mode: starting at AI prompting, then AI PRDs, fine-tuning, RAG, MCP, and finally AI Agents.

Brought to you by:

Linear: Plan and build products like the best

Miro: The innovation workspace

Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturity

In this episode:

Trailer - 00:00

Why AI PMs Are Paid So Much - 1:25

Effective Prompting for AI PMs - 02:39

Ad: Linear - 09:57

Ad: Miro - 10:42

AI PRD Template - 11:54

Fine-Tuning vs RAG - 16:42

Ad: Amplitude - 19:01

Fine-Tuning Demo: Creating a Yoda-Style AI Assistant - 19:52

RAG Implementation: Connecting Documents to AI Chatbots - 30:03

MCP (Machine-Callable Programs): Working with Multiple Tools - 59:00

AI Agents: Creating Advanced Product Research Assistants - 01:18:31

Future of AI Product Management - 01:33:16

Outro - 01:35:49

Where to Find Pawel

Newsletter

YouTube

Email productgrowthppp at gmail.com to discuss advertising or guest opportunities.

I hope you enjoyed the last episode with Spenser Stakes (where we dove into his story of going from broke to building $1.5B company, Amplitude). Up next, we have episodes with:

Brad Schaefer - How to Become a VP of Product

Matt Le May - How to be Impact-First

Aatir Abdul Rauf - VP Marketing, VFairs; 70K+ on LinkedIn

I’m so excited to share them with all of you.

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe

Amplitude CEO: Demo, Story, and How They Build Product Apr 18, 2025

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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

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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.

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“I Got Laid Off. Here’s What Happened Next.” Apr 14, 2025

Show notes

Dr. Bart Jaworski was laid off as a PM at Microsoft. But he bounced back with a job just weeks later. And now he has 125K followers on LinkedIn. This is his story.

Brought to you by:

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In this episode:

Why Watch This - 00:00:00

Microsoft Layoff Story - 01:06

Processing Layoff Emotions - 02:16

How to Rebound After Layoff - 03:35

Finding Purpose Post-Layoff - 05:07

Job Search Success Strategy - 06:30

Returning to Former Employers - 08:42

Ad: AIPM Certification - 10:03

Maintaining Professional Relationships - 10:50

Breaking Into Microsoft - 11:44

Optimizing LinkedIn Profiles - 13:03

Microsoft Interview Preparation - 15:15

Live Resume Review - 21:38

Google Resume Analysis - 24:42

Ad: Amplitude - 29:48

The Reality of Big Tech - 31:26

Day in the Life at Microsoft - 34:34

Building LinkedIn Following - 38:52

Sustainable Content Creation - 42:02

Creating Viral LinkedIn Posts - 47:25

Crafting Engaging Hooks - 54:38

Content Creation Workshop - 59:04

Monetizing Your Audience - 1:03:00

Final Thoughts - 1:09:36

Where to Find Dr. Bart

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.

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.news.aakashg.com/subscribe