# Aakash Gupta

> Aakash Gupta is a former product and growth executive who left his VP of Product role at Apollo.io in 2023 to write Product Growth full time. He now publishes two newsletters, hosts The Growth Podcast and runs a product-management job-search cohort.

- **Role:** Founder and writer, Product Growth
- **Organizations:** Product Growth, AI by Aakash, The Growth Podcast, Land a PM Job, Apollo.io, Affirm, Epic Games, thredUP, Google
- **Education:** MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Built Product Growth to more than 236,000 subscribers, according to his website., Published 88 deep dives in 2024, totaling approximately 462,000 words., Hosts The Growth Podcast, which his website lists at more than 150 episodes.

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Gupta says he began working as a product manager at a startup after a start in software engineering.
- **2014-2017** — Worked in growth at thredUP, according to his career accounts.
- **2020-2021** — Worked at Epic Games in Cary, North Carolina, and began publishing essays outside work.
- **2021** — Published a Roblox analysis, found readers on LinkedIn and launched Product Growth on Substack.
- **2021-2023** — Led product growth at Affirm; wrote newsletter deep dives around his day job.
- **2023** — Served as VP of Product at Apollo.io, then left the role in late 2023 to write full time.
- **2024** — Published 88 Product Growth deep dives, totaling about 462,000 words.
- **2026** — His site lists Product Growth at more than 236,000 subscribers and The Growth Podcast at more than 150 episodes.

## Achievements

- Built Product Growth to more than 236,000 subscribers, according to his website.
- Published 88 deep dives in 2024, totaling approximately 462,000 words.
- Hosts The Growth Podcast, which his website lists at more than 150 episodes.
- Built a second newsletter, AI by Aakash, which his website lists at more than 231,000 subscribers.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — His website lists Product Growth at 236K+ subscribers, AI by Aakash at 231K+ and The Growth Podcast at 150+ episodes.
- **2026-09** — The Growth Podcast published an episode with Zapier CEO Wade Foster on AI fluency.
- **2026-09** — In a fifth-anniversary LinkedIn post, Gupta described Product Growth as approaching 240,000 subscribers.

## Links

- Website: https://www.aakashg.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aagupta/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/aakashg0
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@growproduct/videos
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aakashg0/

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Last updated: 2026-09-29