The Growth Podcast

The Roadmap to Becoming a Product Builder, with Ankit Shukla

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

n8n serves as a critical orchestration layer for business-critical workflows, distinguishing itself from pure AI coding tools like Claude Code by prioritizing reliability, security, and auditability. While AI agents generate rapid prototypes, n8n provides a visual canvas that integrates deterministic logic and human-in...

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

AI fluency has become a critical performance metric for product managers, requiring a shift from basic task automation to the construction of sophisticated "software factories." Achieving excellence involves balancing AI-driven speed with human judgment to avoid producing "AI slop"—mediocre, unverified output. Effectiv...

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

Together AI optimizes product development by shifting from traditional, manual documentation to an agent-centric workflow. Product managers and engineers leverage a shared repository of Markdown and YAML files to maintain context, allowing AI agents to automate research, drafting, and code generation. Instead of exhaus...

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

"Loop engineering" and "vibe PMing" represent a shift toward building self-improving, agentic systems that streamline product development. Tyler Folkman, Chief AI Officer at JobNimbus, argues that moving beyond static prompts to autonomous loops allows teams to fetch inputs, execute tasks, and validate outputs through ...

How to build a Company Operating System with Hermes and OpenClaw

Building an AI-native operating system transforms product management by automating repetitive operational tasks and centralizing organizational knowledge. By integrating tools like OpenClaw and Hermes, teams create a robust knowledge graph that maps projects, customer interactions, and business metrics, allowing for au...

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

Product development is shifting from a linear, siloed process to an integrated model driven by "product builders" who leverage AI to handle research, design, and engineering tasks simultaneously. Srini Raghavan, CPO of Freshworks, demonstrates how this transformation collapses traditional six-month release cycles into ...

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

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

Generative AI product management requires a fundamental shift from static Product Requirement Documents to "evals"—pre-baked sets of prompts and scoring criteria that define success through concrete examples. As AI models evolve from simple question-answering tools to complex, agentic systems, product managers must dev...

The PM's Guide to Governance with Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup

Corporate governance functions as the constitutional foundation determining an organization's long-term integrity, transcending mere compliance. Financial gravity—the systemic pressure to prioritize short-term shareholder value—frequently forces companies to abandon their core mission, leading to internal corruption. T...

Claude PM Masterclass from Former FAANG AI PM Jyothi Nookula

Product managers can achieve 10x effectiveness by mastering the Claude ecosystem, transitioning from traditional management to an "AI Builder" role. This shift requires understanding the five-layer Claude stack—ranging from model selection to agent orchestration—to automate recurring tasks and enhance decision-making. ...

The PM's Guide to AI Design that isn't Slop

How to Build a Company OS in Claude Code with Jiaona Zhang, CPO at Laurel

How a VP of Product Uses Claude Without Producing Slop | Matthew Wensing, Customer.io

Product leaders must master problem decomposition to effectively leverage AI, as the technology excels at solving problems but often simplifies the problem space prematurely. Rather than treating AI as a "slop cannon" that generates instant, low-value deliverables, leaders should treat it as a junior employee requiring...

How to Use Codex Like an OpenAI PM | Abhi Muchhal, PM OpenAI (ex-Meta and Nubank)

OpenAI product manager Abhi Muchhal details how AI agents transform the product development lifecycle, shifting the focus from writing documentation to building functional prototypes. By leveraging AI for repetitive tasks like Slack triage, data synthesis, and experiment reviews, product managers operate with significa...

How PMs Ship 100K Lines of Code at OpenAI with Ryan Lopopolo, Member of Technical Staff

Software engineering is undergoing a fundamental shift where code is increasingly treated as a liability rather than an asset, necessitating a move toward fully agentic development. Ryan Lopopolo, a lead on OpenAI’s Frontier team, advocates for building a "harness"—a repository-level infrastructure that injects context...

How to Run Evals in Claude Code with Aparna Dhinakaran, Founder and CPO of Arize

Product management in the AI era centers on cultivating "product taste" by building iterative loops that transform user feedback into actionable agent improvements. Modern AI PMs must bridge the technical gap by utilizing terminal-based tools like Claude Code to build, instrument, and evaluate agents directly. Observab...

Claude Code for Non-Technical PMs, with Andre Albuquerque

PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

How to Build a Full AI Dev Team in Claude Code | Guide from Google PM Gabor Meyer

Product managers can leverage AI agents to build fully functional software applications by simulating a professional engineering team. Gabor Meyer, a product manager at Google, demonstrates an agentic workflow using Claude Code, where specialized agents—including system analysts, designers, and testers—collaborate to h...