Product Growth

Author of 1 newsletter deep dive and 2 podcast episodes a week on how to succeed as a PM, product leader, or aspiring PM.

Lead a team of folks.

I'm the product guy - making sure everything hits our ever increasing quality bar.

Here's a sample of recent content:

Course 1: Mastering the PM Career

Unit 1: The Key Outputs

Product requirements documents
Roadmaps: Advanced techniques
The feature results writeup
The product review bible

Unit 2: Hard Skills

Advanced discovery techniques
How to identify and validate product risk
Advanced customer interview techniques
How to ramp a product team without strategy

Unit 3: Soft Skills

How to say no
Handling conflict as a PM
How to bridge the divide between stakeholders and users

Unit 4: Career Skills

The PM Career Ladder: Your Unofficial Guide
How to get a raise in this market
Why politics isn’t a dirty word

Course 2: Mastering Growth

Unit 1: Lessons From The Greats

How Miro grows
How Canva grows
How Klarna grows
How did Intel do so Badly?
Everything about Midjourney
What you need to know about Temu

Unit 2: Systematizing Our Learnings

Build a detailed growth model
Gaming growth playbook
When to A/B test
Impact Sizing
Growth loops
How to build a flywheel
How to use Code Interpreter

Unit 3: Success in Specific Product Teams

Information Architecture
Product-led sales
Design Systems
Product Copy
Onboarding
Expansion
Activation

Course 3: Product Leadership

Unit 1: How to set up your product team

How to set up your product team
Do you really need a North Star Metric
Pitch a growth role to senior leadership
How founders think differently from PMs

Unit 2: How to scale your team

Billion-Dollar Execution
How to scale a product team from 0 to 15
Reference checks can supercharge your hiring

Unit 3: How to be a great leader

7 currencies of a product leader
The 7 failure patterns of managers
How to Make Your Ideas Stick
Product leadership in India

Newsletter Author, Podcast Host

Apollo.io

Product leader when the company became a unicorn ($750M->$2.5B valuation).

I led several product teams, including the growth team, pricing & packaging, activation, expansion, information architecture, acquisition, and engagement.

Raised at a unicorn valuation while I was there.

Ended up leaving to focus full-time on my newsletter.

VP of Product

Affirm

Member of the senior product leadership team. Led growth team when company revenue grew from $300M to $1.2B/year.

Head of Growth Product

Epic Games

Led data driven growth for Fortnite during some it's best performing years, including the Travis Scott Concert and launch of "Chapter 2."

Lead Product Manager

thredUP

Built and led the team's product growth team when it raised its series D.

We worked on the following key initiatives:

- Pricing optimization: we re-architected the pricing system to optimize for conversion, new customers, and stockthrough levels, driving industry-leading inventory turns
- Conversion rate optimization: we drove 2.5x in first visit to purchase conversion via tools like outfits, dynamic merchandising, ad campaign customization, and the aforementioned pricing system
- Referrals channel: we grew this channel back when it actually worked, with things like $10-$10 and also a famous $0.99 sales
- Paid advertising growth: we built an ad-technology system to handle budgeting and bids cross-channel across Facebook, Pinterest, and Yahoo ads

Overall, I helped the company eventually go public by setting the foundations for its growth, growth marketing, and growth product teams.

Director of Growth

Rap to Beats

Developed iOS app Rap to Beats & scaled to 300K monthly active users (MAU). Led team.

We shipped several game changing features:
- In-app purchases for premier DJ beats
- A leaderboard to showcase your raps by country
- Social sharing to Instagram and Facebook

With premier DJs regularly using the app to sell their work, we were able to scale one of the first consumer apps for rap on the iPhone.

Co-Founder/ Head of Product

Scoutforce Werving & Selectie

ScoutForce was a SaaS for College Athletic Recruiting Teams. 

I joined as one of the first employees, and helped create the initial product: in the cloud recruiting software to enable recruiting teams. I did in depth discovery, wireframing, and iteration on the early features. 

This built my initial skillset in product management.

Product Manager

The Product Growth Guy 🚀 | Helping you land your next job + succeed in your career | Newsletter Writer and Podcast Host

TL;DR: I write a newsletter for product managers, product leaders, and aspiring product managers. I focus on actionable and deep tips to improve your career.

The Longer Version:

After a long career in PM - rising to VP of Product at a Unicorn - I have made the shift to writing about it.

In particular, I write about product growth. That is, the art of growing via your product. 

This means I also talk a lot about product-led growth (PLG), the SaaS B2B motion.

My newsletter doesn't just focus on growth though. 

I also break down technology, product management, product leadership, and how to get a PM job. 

It's all the things that make for a great use of your learning & development budget. 

Or even personal spend. 

The math is pretty great. 
↳ $150 for an annual subscription
↳ $211K average PM salary in the US
↳ 0-10% average range of raises offered

If the newsletter helps you get a 0.07% better raise, it pays itself. 
That's 1/142th of your raise range.

It's a pretty smart investment for every level of PM.

http://www.news.aakashg.com

Aakash Gupta

This is what a Senior AI PM at Google's Github looks like.

It's wild:

Take a look:  https://lnkd.in/e7Jb8kRe

He's made 484 contributions in the last year (>1/day). 

New-age AI PMs don't just write PRDs. They ship:

1. Prototypes
2. Frameworks
3. Perspectives on AI
4. Open source contributions

The bar for technical fluency for AI PMs continues to rise as PMs like Shubham Saboo raise the standard. 

AI PMs don't just have a theoretical understanding of concepts, but a practical knowledge of AI engineering.

Take a look at Shubham's top repos, for inspiration:

1. Collection of LLM Apps: https://lnkd.in/e-Zesb7u
2. MCP Playbook for AI agents: https://lnkd.in/eR5KHvww

These are practical resources that he's collected himself. They aren't necessarily at-scale production apps. They're PM friendly projects. 

He's also built a more-technical open source Python toolkit for building AI agents: https://lnkd.in/eCsAzPtR

When you put these types of work products together, jobs come to you. This is how you break into AI PM. 

If you look at his LinkedIn, most of his career was in dev rel. But a Github speaks louder than titles.

This is what all aspiring AI PMs should do:

1. Start with Prototyping: https://lnkd.in/eJujDhBV
2. Then pick up Cursor: https://lnkd.in/d2pcXD7R
3. Build with Claude Code: https://lnkd.in/eUyPEAma
4. Ship to Github: https://lnkd.in/eVFVT_Yc
5. Create a Portfolio: https://lnkd.in/eT3RvQiM
6. Build a Job Search System: https://lnkd.in/efbppEDj

Then you too can become an AI PM at Google like Shubham. He's created the roadmap. Now follow.

📌 Want my complete guide to the AI PM job search? Comment 'AI job search' + DM Me. Must do both.

➕ Follow Aakash Gupta for daily AI PM tips. 

Proof of work > titles

The AI PM Guy 🚀 | Helping you land your next job + succeed in your career

Linear hit a $1.25B valuation with just 2 PMs.

The way they build product is from the future:

They're contrarian.

They do almost no "growth product" work:

• No A/B tests
• No work on activation
• No growth dashboards
• Zero focus on retention tactics

They also don't have a design system. 

Instead, at the core of the way Linear builds product is "The Linear Method." Many founders I talk to have been religiously copying it. There's three keys, as I see it:

1. Directness
They don't do user stories, they speak clearly

2. No Busy Work
They don't do sprint planning, or OKRs for ICs

3. Momentum
They don't have cycles, scope aggressively, ship fast

Their founders, and CEO Karri Saarinen have operated this way from day 1. They set a very intentional culture. 

Beneath the method, there's tons more texture... 

One of the most unique processes they have is the roast. Before every launch, the entire team spends 30 mins breaking every feature with a massive doc. 

Another one is their zero bugs policy. I heard from multiple people of bugs being solved in hours, not days.

They also don't have a PM on every project. With 2 PMs, small little teams of designers and engineers really think like product people in the work that they do. 

The results speak for themselves.

$1.25B valuation with just 100 employees.
145% net revenue retention. 
No retention team needed.

They've put on a masterclass in building a unique product culture, with lots to learn for others out there.

Want to go deeper?

• My Deep Dive on Linear: https://lnkd.in/e_R9ruDG
• Head of Product Nan Yu: https://lnkd.in/e3WDcETz
• AI Agents Demo: https://lnkd.in/etXnfc2C

📌 Want my breakdown of their PLG iceberg? Comment 'Linear Iceberg' + DM Me and I'll reply to your DM.

I can't help but think most teams will move this direction.

AI + Product Management 🚀 | Helping you land your next job + succeed in your career

Want to pass PM Interviews at OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Google, Airbnb, Dropbox, Palantir?👇 

1. Understand these important concepts:

- Business: P&L, metrics trees
- Technical: APIs, scalability, performance
- Roadmapping: now/next/later, alignment
- AI/ML: prompt eng, RAG, fine-tuning, evals
- Experimentation: when to A/B test, p-values
- Prioritization: RICE, value vs effort, opp cost
- Discovery: customer interviews, user research
- Metrics: north star, guardrail, leading v lagging
- Product strategy: future trends, big tech choices

2. Practice these case interview questions:

- Product sense: https://lnkd.in/eTqEFtPM
- AI product sense: https://lnkd.in/ekWty_bw
- System design: https://lnkd.in/etTmzNzz
- Product design: https://lnkd.in/encHB-k7
- Product execution: https://lnkd.in/e8t8zS9q
- Product estimation: https://lnkd.in/eZvjP4RR
- Product strategy: https://lnkd.in/eqzpahmW
- Success metrics: https://lnkd.in/efdj_QYT
- Vibe coding: https://lnkd.in/e66DrW-h

3. Practice these behavioral questions:

- Tell me about yourself: https://lnkd.in/eYmRYF2Y
- Why want to work here: https://lnkd.in/eeuRsR9M
- What's your current pay: https://lnkd.in/gS-CKH9P
- Improve app speed: https://lnkd.in/dG9EFhiR
- Greatest weakness: https://lnkd.in/ePQ7dBtr
- Were you laid off: https://lnkd.in/e2iTP3xs
- Leadership style: https://lnkd.in/eCPdQVp2
- What level targeting: https://lnkd.in/e2YQ8tK2

4. Study these company specific processes:

- Microsoft:  https://lnkd.in/eXWWYefH
- Amazon: https://lnkd.in/eA_WxXHQ
- Apple: https://lnkd.in/eXWWYefH
- Google: https://lnkd.in/ezAHYXhV
- OpenAI: https://lnkd.in/ebR_Auss
- Meta: https://lnkd.in/evHQ_w-E

Image: Yangshun Tay

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🛠️🤖 How to build AI agents from scratch
(Even if you've never done it before.)
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟴 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲, 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗨𝗜.

𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩, 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙄 𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩?

An AI Agent is an LLM that:

• Reasons on its own
• Act (via calling tools)
• Observes & improve itself

This is the core "ReAct" framework Google released all the way back in 2022. It's now a reality. 

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𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝟴 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥𝙨:

1. Define purpose & scope

Over-scoping is the killer of agents. You want a single clear use case with success criteria, and constraints. 

2. Build system prompt

This is often the most important step. You want a really good prompt, or the whole thing falls over. 

3. Choose LLM

Don't always go for the best. Balance speed, multi-modality, and what each LLM is best for. 

4. Integrate tools

This is what makes your agent an agent, MCP, APIs, other agents as tools. Create your architecture.

5. Add memory

Don't add memory unless needed. But for support agents that need conversation history, or research agents that build on past findings? Game-changer.

6. Orchestrate things

You want a control flow over routes, workflows, message queues and your agent-to-agent (A2A) coordination.

7. Build a user interface

This is the flashy part we want to jump to. But only it do it now. Figure out how users will interact. 

8. Add testing & evals 

This is the most important step to create a continuous improvement loop. Systematically analyze errors.

Here's guides to help with each step:

1. Purpose ➝‬ https://lnkd.in/eekC6bwT
2. System prompt ➝‬ https://lnkd.in/d_qYCBT7
3. Choose LLM ➝‬ https://lnkd.in/eqRgsMZx
4. Integrate tools ➝‬ https://lnkd.in/ezNsTfbD
5. Add memory ➝‬ https://lnkd.in/eeey5Cxr
6. Orchestrate things ➝‬ https://lnkd.in/eKhmKYNp
7. Build a UI ➝‬ https://lnkd.in/epRC64ku
8. Evals ➝‬ https://lnkd.in/eGbzWMxf

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𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠:

Now, what tools should you use? 

For general assistants: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity 
For coding projects: Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code 
For business automation: Lindy, Relay app, n8n 
For complex workflows: LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex

The best stack is the one that gets you shipping fast.

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Agents are one of the most powerful skills for PMs and engineers to learn right now. 

I have been studying them deeply.
 These are my core learnings.

📌 Want my 8-layer agent architecture? Comment 'agent architecture' + DM me.

What agents have you been building?

This $4B CPO runs her entire day out of Claude Code + Cursor. And she shared exactly how she does it:

It was a delight to sit down with Rachel Wolan.

She is one of the most AI-forward CPOs I have met, and she dropped all the sauce on her AI workflows.

🎬 Watch Now: https://lnkd.in/es6aQigP

Available Everywhere
Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eyt7agKj
Apple: https://lnkd.in/eAEVwr3u

🏆 Thanks to our sponsor:

Linear: Plan and build product like the best

Use my link! https://lnkd.in/e8rtjVRZ 

✍️ Here were my favorite takeaways:

1. There are two sides to AI product leadership: being a productive AI product leader yourself, and shipping AI native features for your customers. Rachel showed us both in this masterclass.

2. Webflow went from 0% of designers using Cursor to 30% using it weekly after one builder day. That's the power of setting up your org correctly. Champions teach, incentives align, adoption follows.

3. Rachel built an "agentic chief of staff" that analyzes her calendar for delegation opportunities, triages her entire inbox, and queries Snowflake in natural language. She gets answers in seconds without waiting for data scientists.

4. Her calendar agent spots double-bookings, context switching issues, and meetings she should delegate. It recommends what to cut next week. She runs it weekly & shares outputs with her EA.

5. Her email agent removes junk automatically, pins what matters, and drafts replies based on her inbox behavior patterns. It learns what she cares about by watching how she responds.

6. She queries their data warehouse in plain English through Claude Code. "How many sites does this workspace have?" answered instantly. Set up MCP servers for Snowflake & Tableau to enable this.

7. Building custom agents takes minutes. Create a markdown file in your /agents folder, describe what you want, Claude generates it. She built a LinkedIn post generator live on the pod.

8. To enable your team: give them tool access (Cursor, Claude Code), run builder days where everyone demos something new, update career ladders to expect AI usage, and let champions on your team teach others.

9. For shipping AI features, invest heavily in evals. Webflow's code generator broke when they switched models because eval coverage was insufficient. 

10. Choose AI features that leverage your core strengths. Webflow built a code generator using their CMS, design system, and production hosting. That's their differentiation versus every other coding agent.

11. Think distribution first, not last. Answer engine optimization is the new SEO. Feed FAQs to your website, build ChatGPT apps, and make sure product changes get recognized in answer engines from day one.

What's even cooler is she is a paid subscriber to the newsletter! 

Join her: https://lnkd.in/gp2cCv8K

And don't miss the ep for her live demos!

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What does a PM building AI features do?

I've been interviewing 2+ weekly for 14 months:

Here's the latest tools, skills, responsibilities, knowledge

𝟭. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀

1a. Discovery + Research
Finding where AI actually adds value takes research

1b. Execution Delivery
Getting AI into production is harder than it looks

1c. Strategy Planning
You're planning the future of AI at your company

1d. Leadership Impact
The best AI PMs shape company strategy

𝟮. 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲

2a. AI Fundamentals
Understanding what AI can and can't do is critical

2b. Product Patterns
Designing for AI requires different UX patterns

2c. Market GTM
Positioning AI products requires market knowledge

2d. Testing Taxonomy
Testing AI is completely different from testing software

𝟯. 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀

3a. Context Engineering
Getting AI to understand what you need is half the job

3b. Evaluation Testing
You can't ship without knowing if it actually works

3c. AI Architecture
Choosing the right model & system design matters

3d. Cross-Team Communication
You're the bridge between tech teams & business

𝟰. 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀

4a. Core AI Platforms
Claude, GPT-5, Gemini & NotebookLM are the top tools of the trade

4b. No-Code AI Builders
Zapier, n8n, Lindy, Linear & Replit are the most used

4c. Prototyping/Vibe Coding
Bolt, Cursor, Claude Code & v0 ship prototypes fast

4d. Analytics Monitoring
DataDog, Amplitude & Arize track AI performance

With so many things to do and learn...

PM is really a "do everything" role. It's hard to have work-life balance. Here's resources to stay sane:

𝟭. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀

1a. Discovery → https://lnkd.in/e9QrMEDw
1b. Execution → https://lnkd.in/eajEfG5R
1c. Strategy → https://lnkd.in/egemMhMF
1d. Leadership Impact → https://lnkd.in/eymXeBmE

𝟮. 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲

2a. Fundamentals → https://lnkd.in/e6zyYugs
2b. Product Patterns → https://lnkd.in/eq8xvCAK
2c. Market GTM → https://lnkd.in/eJj4bx_i
2d. Testing Taxonomy → https://lnkd.in/eKhmKYNp

𝟯. 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀

3a. Context eng → https://lnkd.in/ebfnDUmi
3b. Prompt eng → https://lnkd.in/d_qYCBT7
3c. Architecture → https://lnkd.in/eeey5Cxr
3d. Communication → https://lnkd.in/eg8anRXa

𝟰. 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀

4a. Claude → https://lnkd.in/eZ6UBbAQ
4b. Prototyping → https://lnkd.in/eJujDhBV
4c. Experimentation → https://lnkd.in/e86mpjGR
4d. No-Code Builders → https://lnkd.in/e_fjvHHN

📌 Want my free 5 day course? Comment EEC + DM me.

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Google JUST dropped 70 pgs on context eng and it's 🔥

I summarized it for you:

Stateful, personal AI starts with Context Engineering: assembling the right information at the right time.

There's 7 keys:

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𝗢𝗡𝗘 - 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 = 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝘆

Your LLM context window is prime real estate. Context Engineering optimizes what goes in:

→ User intent + conversation history
→ Retrieved facts (RAG for general knowledge)
→ Long-term memory (user preferences, expertise)
→ Tool outputs and grounding data

The right information, assembled at the right moment.

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𝗧𝗪𝗢 - 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 = 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵

A session is a single conversation with:

1. Events (user messages, tool calls, observations)
2. State (conversation history, accumulated context)
3. Lifecycle (create, interact, close)

Think: one task, one session. When you close it, the session ends but memories can persist.

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𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 - 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 = 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘁

Memory persists across sessions for true continuity:

- Declarative (facts, preferences: "I'm vegan")
- Procedural (how you work: "I debug like Sarah does")

RAG retrieves general facts from the internet. Memory captures YOUR specific expertise and preferences.

Big difference.

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𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗥 - 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 = 𝗘𝗧𝗟 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲

LLMs themselves drive memory creation:

1. Extract relevant info from session conversations
2. Consolidate with existing memories (dedupe, merge)
3. Load into vector stores for retrieval

An LLM-powered ETL pipeline. Automated intelligence extraction from your interactions.

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𝗙𝗜𝗩𝗘 - 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 = 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁

Every memory needs metadata for production use:

→ Source (which session created this?)
→ Timestamp (how fresh is this?)
→ Confidence (how certain are we?)

Provenance is critical for debugging, trust, and reliability in production systems.

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𝗦𝗜𝗫 - 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀

Two approaches to memory retrieval:

Proactive: Always include in context (user name, critical preferences)
Reactive: Retrieve on-demand based on query (semantic search, vector similarity)

Smart agents know when to pull vs push. Not everything belongs in every context.

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𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡 - 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆

Building this at scale requires:

• Privacy: User data isolation, encryption, compliance
• Performance: Caching strategies, batch operations
• Scale: Vector stores for semantic search, not SQL

Google runs this across millions of users. The infrastructure matters.

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This took me 2 hours.

To go further, you need to learn:

1. RAG vs Finetuning: https://lnkd.in/ebfnDUmi
2. Prompt engineering: https://lnkd.in/d_qYCBT7
3. AI agents: https://lnkd.in/eeey5Cxr

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Context Engineering Masterclass by Google

I literally mapped out the whole agents market. 

These are the top players:

SECTION 1: AI AGENT INFRASTRUCTURE

Development Platforms & Frameworks
• Anthropic, OpenAI, cohere, Stack, Beam, ADEPT, BREV/AN, DeepOpinion, Distyl, E2B, KESTREL AI, Moveworks, Sema4, greptile, lyzr, /dev/agents, itwin, wordware
  
Workflow Automation & Orchestration
• Enterprise automation: Zapier, Airtable, n8n, Relay, Lindy
• Multi-agent systems: fetch, crewAI, Martian, aaru, emergence
  
Agent Infrastructure & Tools
• Web & tool use: composio, Browserbase, exa, tavily
• Data & knowledge: LlamaIndex, vectara, Letta, Across AI, zep
• Authentication: ANON, Keet
• Payments: Skyfire, stripe, paymon, nevermined
  
Evaluation, Observability & Voice
• Eval & monitoring: arize, Langfuse, Patronus AI, COVAL, Agency, Haize Labs, vijil, Vocera, Weights & Biases
• Voice AI: ElevenLabs, Cartesia, Deepgram, Retell AI, VAPI, Bland, Synthflow, Hamming, FIXIE, sarvam, WaveForms

SECTION 2: CORE ENTERPRISE USE CASES

AI Assistants
• OpenAI, Anthropic, Glean, Lindy, HyperWrite, Convergence, DeepSky (Airtable), perplexity, Personal AI, Please
  
Software Development
• Cursor, Cognition, replit, Autify, Magic, lovable, FACTORY, imbue, poolside, Tusk, qodo, Magic Patterns, All Hands, Resolve
  
Customer Service
• Decagon, SIERRA, Voiceflow, COGNIGY, Maven AGI, crescendo, DevRev, parloa, Gradient Labs, yampa
  
Sales & Rev Ops
• 11x, clay, AISDR, ARTISAN, bounti, Agent, DocketAI, flowirks, QUALIFIED, mindy, IOX, tektonic ai
  
Data Analysis
• Talonic AI, Embry, ConnectlyAI, Paradigm
  
People Ops
• Mercor, MERCOR, apriora, Borderless AI, otto, moonhub, Tezi, CONVIN, ToothFairyAI
  
Accounting
• Basis, Hypatos
  
Cybersecurity
• AIRMDR, Bricklayer, Dropzone AI, nullify, prophet, RadiantSecurity, Simbian, torq
  
Marketing 
• ability, firsthand
  
Web Research
• Lutra, Reworkd

SECTION 3: INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC AGENTS

Financial Services
• Concourse, FINNY, Boosted, Brightwave, Greenlite, altiius, Hebbla, Indemn, Powder
  
Legal
• Harvey, &AI, eve, NormAI, Parcha, Spellbook
  
Healthcare
• EliseAI, Anterior, Hippocratic AI, Assort Health, health, Synthpop
  
Supply Chain & Logistics
• DIDERO, FleetWorks, HappyRobot, Naratix, Pixel Robotics
  
E-commerce 
• Naratix, CommerceOS
  
Gaming 
• ALTERA, innovacer, thoughtful
  
Industrials & Infrastructure
• Composable, juno, phaidra, Pixel Robotics

Shoutout to Crunchbase. Used it heavily. 

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Founder Institute

Mentor

LiveX AI Inc.

Jobright.ai

Xmind

Cartesia

3x leads and new self-serve users in less than 3 months. 
Experimented the product market fit and guided the team to be more focused on the right ICP.

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HeyGen

Head of GTM at Bardeen.ai

Growth & Marketing leader with 17 years experience in lead generation, life cycle marketing, user acquisition, social media marketing, and business strategy. 

- 17 years of experience in developing & executing the growth and marketing strategy, for Saas Business
- 12 years of experience in building, nurturing and leading teams
- Built scalable and efficient growth engines for 5 B2C SaaS or DTC startups, scaled users from hundreds to millions
- Built scalable and efficient growth engines for 4 B2B SaaS startups, scaled ARR from 0 to millions

Chang Chen

1 𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬. 1,500+ 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬. $0 𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝.

That's how Gamma went from "just another presentation tool" to $50M ARR in under 2 years. 

Well, that's part of it—and let's not forget the amazing product, beloved brand, and lively community doing the heavy lifting too!

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬:

When we first partnered with Gamma a year ago, every competitor was burning cash on traditional ads, desperately hoping for traction.

We took a different approach: 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭.

As Grant Lee, Co-Founder/CEO @ Gamma, stated: "the Hockey Stick team drove 1B+ views with 1,500+ creators—no extra ad spend. The success is no accident: spot trends early, craft viral hooks for each platform, understand why they spread, then replicate 100x across creators."

🎯 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠:
- Gave 1,500+ creators complete creative freedom (no scripts, no micromanaging), only viral content inspirations
- Tested every new content angle, every trend, every viral hook imaginable
- When something worked, we doubled down HARD

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐞:
✨ Elon Musk shared Gamma threads... multiple times
✨ LinkedIn feeds flooded with user-generated Gamma content
✨ X/Twitter timelines became Gamma showcases
✨ Every early user became a passionate advocate 

But here's the kicker - 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤. 

As Kristin Fracchia who leads Marketing at Gamma put it: "Hockey Stick Growth excels at spotting trends early and crafting content that goes viral."

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐒 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫:
Stop throwing money at content that feel like ads. In today's skeptical digital landscape, authentic creator content beats polished marketing every single time.

Your users don't want to be sold to - they want to be part of something bigger.

The hockey stick moment isn't about finding product-market fit. It's about finding creator-market fit and letting authentic voices amplify your story.

What's your take? Have you experimented with creator-led growth? Drop your experiences below 👇

Founder at Hockey Stick | 3X exits | Ex-Otter.ai, Heygen, Cartesia, Microsoft

When your CEO drops a 2-word vision that hits different 💅

We just dropped the trailer for our sit-down with Grant Lee, CEO of Gamma — the company that just casually raised a Series B at a $2.1B valuation and hit $100M ARR while the rest of us were still figuring out our Q3 goals.

In the interview, I asked Grant to describe Gamma in 5 years using just 2 words.
His answer? "Ubiquitous and delightful."
Mic drop. 🎤

Here's the thing: People have been FORCED to use PowerPoint for decades. And the last thing anyone wants is to spend MORE time wrestling with slide decks that make you question your career choices. Grant gets it. Gamma isn't just building another presentation tool — they're building something that brings actual delight and magic to your workday. 

And here's the growth secret:
Delight spreads through people, not ads. That's where influencer marketing becomes rocket fuel.

At Hockey Stick, we've powered Gamma's influencer marketing since the early days. The pattern is clear: when we scaled the influencer program, organic word-of-mouth exploded.

Because when people see someone they trust enjoying a tool (not just using it), they convert. Then they tell everyone.

That's how "delightful" becomes "ubiquitous." ✨

Drop a 🪄 if you want the playbook that helped scale Gamma to $100M ARR.

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