Aakash Gupta: The Skill Every Product Manager MUST Learn in 2026 | Product in Practice
What if you could build product prototypes in 15 minutes instead of 3 weeks?
In this masterclass, Aakash Gupta (creator of the Product Growth Newsletter and former VP of Product at Affirm, Epic Games, and ThredUp) reveals the AI prototyping workflow that's revolutionizing product management.
Watch as he live-demos building a sleep tracker app using Bolt, V0, and Lovable, showing you exactly how to go from concept to a working prototype in minutes.
What You'll Learn:
- The 6-step framework every PM needs to master AI product building
- How to use Bolt, V0, Lovable & Cursor for rapid prototyping
- Why AI prototyping is the most significant change product management has ever seen
- Real-time demo: Building a sleep score calculator from scratch
- The exact prompt engineering techniques that get better results
- How to iterate across multiple AI tools to find the best output
The Four-Step AI Prototyping Method:
- Start with problem discovery (not jumping straight to solutions)
- Test across multiple tools (Bolt, V0, Lovable)
- Iterate with detailed feedback
- Move to Cursor for final refinements
"What used to take weeks now takes literally minutes." This isn't hype; this is the new reality for product builders.
About Aakash Gupta: Long-time product leader at ThredUp, Epic Games, Affirm, and Apollo. He now runs the Product Growth Newsletter (Substack), featuring practical playbooks and AI experiments for product builders.
Where to find Aakash Gupta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aagupta/
Where to find Axel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/axelsooriah/
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