AI Product Manager

Aakash Gupta Portfolio

Wrote "Product Growth" (236,000+ subscribers) and "AI by Aakash" (231,000+ subscribers) after growth and product leadership roles at thredUp, Affirm, and Apollo.io; has interviewed AI product managers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google roughly weekly for over a year to build a public AI PM learning path.

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What makes it work

A breakdown of the choices that make this portfolio stand out.

1

Naming specific past growth roles with scale markers

Rather than a generic "product and growth background," the bio ties specific companies to specific growth periods (Affirm's revenue expansion from $300M to $1.2B) — concrete, checkable numbers.

2

A structured interview cadence as a research methodology

Interviewing two or more AI PMs weekly for over a year at named companies is a disciplined research process, not occasional anecdote collection.

3

Converting practitioner interviews into a free, structured curriculum

Turning a year-plus of interviews into a described "learning path" shows an editorial/product instinct applied to his own content.

What AI Product Managers can take from this

Specific, actionable tips to apply to your own portfolio — no generic advice.

  • Attach a specific number or scale marker to past roles rather than a general seniority description — it's far more verifiable and specific.

  • If you're synthesizing insight from many practitioners, state your actual research cadence and sample size rather than implying broad expertise from unspecified conversations.

  • Organize collected insights into a structured curriculum or path rather than a loose list — the organizing work is itself evidence of product thinking.

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