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1 week ago | 
news.aakashg.com | Aakash Gupta
The biggest change in interviews over the last 12 years, Lewis Lin and I concluded, has been the rise of presentation rounds. Based on my research into the market, the increase has been hockey-stick-like. Over the last 4 decades, broadly, the PM interview market has seen 4 main themes:90s: Mostly behavioral2000s: The rise of technical and estimation questions2010s: The rise of cases2020s: The era of presentationsIn this new era, PMs need to be equipped to ace this round.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.aakashg.com | Aakash Gupta
Check it out on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube. And thanks to our sponsors: Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturityProduct Faculty: Get $500 off the AI PM certification with code AAKASH25What actually happens after you get laid off from a big tech PM role?
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2 weeks ago | 
news.aakashg.com | Aakash Gupta
Check it out on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube. And thanks to our sponsors: Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturityProduct Faculty: Get $500 off the AI PM certification with code AAKASH25We have the VP of PM of an $11.7B company. And we’re using the time with him well. We cover:A live demo of building an AI agent with AirtableHow Airtable grew to such a valuationHow Airtable builds productIf you’re a PM or product leader looking to improve, this episode is for you.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.aakashg.com | Aakash Gupta
I teamed up withStatsig to interview 8 leading experts on scaled experimentation programs. If you want to know what the future of product development looks like, look no further than OpenAI. After onboarding with Statsig, they ran more experiments in 2 months than most companies do in an entire year. The same pattern holds at Notion. The vast majority of what they ship gets measured, even features they have strong conviction about. Why?
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3 weeks ago | 
news.aakashg.com | Aakash Gupta |David Pereira
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3 weeks ago | 
news.aakashg.com | Aakash Gupta
Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -50:01Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Check it out on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube. Kate runs a 3-week live course User-Centric Product-Led Growth. Use code AAKASHxMAVEN for $100 off. And thanks to our sponsors: WorkOS: Your App, Enterprise ReadyAmplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturityThis might be the first time someone walks you through how top products actually design flows that convert.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.aakashg.com | Aakash Gupta
One of the things is no short supply these days is advice. But what is in short supply is actual case studies. So that’s what today’s post is: stories of successful job seekers - not theory on what works. Every 3 months, we check in on the job market in this newsletter. And the news is in: Q1 2025 was a return to the lows we saw in 2023.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.aakashg.com | Aakash Gupta
Listen now on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube. And check out our sponsors: Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturityMaven: Get $100 off their courses with code AAKASHxMAVENProduct Faculty: Get $500 off the AI PM certification with code AAKASH25If you’ve seen Anthropic’s recent drop and wondered why everyone’s suddenly talking about MCP (Model Context Protocol), this episode is your primer.
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1 month ago | 
news.aakashg.com | Aakash Gupta
Listen now on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube. And check out our sponsors: Amplitude: Try their 2-minute assessment of your company’s digital maturityProduct Faculty: Get $500 off the AI PM certification with code AAKASH25Maven: Get $100 off their courses with code AAKASHxMAVENIf you’re serious about cracking PM interviews in 2025, this episode is for you. When it comes to product management interviews, there’s no more authoritative voice than Lewis Lin (author of the legendary Decode and Conquer).
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1 month ago | 
news.aakashg.com | Aakash Gupta
The most significant new AI tool to release for PMs in the last 12 months has been the rise of AI prototyping tools:Bolt has grown from 0 to $40M ARR in 6 months (CEO on the podcast this week)Lovable has surged from 0 to $17M ARR in just 3 monthsVercel (maker of v0) is valued at $3.25BReplit is valued at $1.16BIt's quietly redefining what it means to be a PM in forward-thinking orgs. My most popular podcast to date was with Colin Matthews.