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2023:
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2025:
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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 13h

The coldest life advice you'll hear

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He cooked:

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This system works because you demonstrate value before asking for anything.

📌 Comment 'Pitch' + DM for the step by step system.

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Land a PM Job with Aakash Gupta

A structured, 10-week program to accelerate your product management career with 2 live sessions per week, 1:1 coaching, and expert guidance from Aakash Gupta.

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16h

9. Convert to interview momentum

Prepare your talk track, STAR stories, and pre-answers to feasibility/data/GTM/ethics/timeline.

Feed them to ChatGPT to improve.

🔗 Lewis Lin's guide: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkT...

Decode and Conquer - He Wrote the Book

When it comes to product management interviews, there’s no more authoritative voice than Lewis Lin (author of the legendary Decode and Conquer). His books (o...

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16h

8. Focus on quick-win patterns

Prove value: audit flows, prototype features, analyze competitors.

Hand ChatGPT the goal & constraints for 5 patterns.

🔗 Guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/ai-pm-job...

The AI PM Job Search System: How to Land a $300K+ Role

Here’s the step-by-step process to leverage AI tools and land interviews at the hottest companies

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16h

7. Ship a 6-slide pitch

Structure:

Problem →
Evidence →
2 Ideas →
Plan →
Impact

Ask for feedback, not a job.

Let ChatGPT draft the outline from your research.

🔗 Guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/the-how-t...

The How to Get Interviews System: Step-by-Step

Here's the step-by-step process I've used to help 100s land interviews

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16h

6. Build a "receipts" research pack

Gather 6 receipts: 2 exec quotes, 1 earnings metric, 1 competitor move, 1 customer pain, 1 industry stat.

Drop the company and problem into Perplexity for sourced receipts.

🔗 How: www.news.aakashg.com/p/work-prod...

How to build work products to get jobs

The PM market is brutal—to differentiate, many are turning to the work product. Here's how to actually impress, instead of bungle your opportunity

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16h

5. Discovery that finds real pain

Ask: What's your 6-month goal? What's blocking it? What's baseline vs. target?

Then use ChatGPT to generate discovery questions that extract metrics & constraints.

🔗 Guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/complete-...

The Ultimate PM Interview Bible: 50+ Posts, 40+ Podcasts & Insider Secrets to Land Your Dream Role

Discover the most comprehensive guide to product manager interviews, compiling expert strategies, frameworks, and company-specific tips to ace behavioral questions, case studies, and more—perfect for beginners to directors

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16h

4. Value-first outreach

3-touch sequence:

a. Comment on content →
b. Ask advice question →
c. Offer insights for feedback

Give ChatGPT their signal + your angle for copy.

🔗 Step-by-step: www.news.aakashg.com/p/writing-c...

Writing Cold Emails to Get Referrals, Interviews, and Jobs

We've all received our fair share of terrible cold e-mails. Let's celebrate the bad, but also build a first principles mindset to write our own good cold e-mails.

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16h

3. Build your referral graph

Map 10-15 warm connections per company: hiring managers, skip-levels, peers, cross-functional partners.

Export LinkedIn contacts to ChatGPT to generate icebreakers.

🔗 Guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/interview...

The Art of Winning Interviews via Referral: Complete Guide

Mastering the referral process: step-by-step strategies that actually work, including real case studies from successful job seekers who broke into Amazon, Stripe, and enterprise SaaS companies

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16h

2. Score & shortlist targets

Build a 10-company scoring sheet: Goal, 6-mo Initiative, Challenge, My Angle, Warm Paths.

Use Perplexity to pull goals from earnings calls in seconds.

🔗 Guide: www.news.aakashg.com/p/small-mar...

The Small Market Recruiting Strategy

To find a PM job in a specific niche or geo, with only a few companies to work for, your strategy needs a departure from the large market job application approach.

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16h

1. Define your value thesis

You want to become the obvious bet.

Write a 2-sentence value thesis focused on business impact. End with one metric proof point.

Feed your resume to ChatGPT for help.

🔗 Phyl Terry's masterclass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnB...

Never Search Alone - Phyl Wrote the Book

If there’s one book, people keep mentioning to me that helps their job searches, it’s Never Search Alone. Even I used the book to snag my VP of Product at Ap...

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aakashgupta.bsky.social @aakashgupta.bsky.social · 16h

I applied to 300+ jobs.

Got rejected from all of them.

I decided to try a new approach, and the result was interviews at Meta, Doordash, and Uber + an offer from Google with a $70k+ raise.

Here's the 9 step system I used to make it happen:

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