Amol Avasare
Head of Growth, Anthropic. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Amol Avasare leads growth at Anthropic, where he spearheaded internal initiatives like Project CASH to automate growth experimentation. Prior to joining Anthropic after cold-emailing CPO Mike Krieger, he worked on growth teams at Mercury and MasterClass and founded his own startup.
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Everything Amol Avasare said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Anthropic surpassed $19B in revenue by the end of February 2026
“The nineteen billion number you quoted is from the end of Feb, so that is also out of date.”
Avasare predicts Anthropic will deliver 1,000x more product value by 2028
“The product value that we will deliver in two years time is probably like a thousand X, a hundred to a thousand X what it is today.”
Claude automated growth experiments win at the rate of junior PMs
“It's delivering results, right? Like, and it's like, you can push it, press play with it. And it's like, it ultimately prints money where I'd say that the win rate is like, I would expect a senior PM to do better. Like I would say like, this is like a junior P…”
Avasare: Engineers gain more AI leverage than PMs or designers
“It's clear that while PMs and designers are getting more leverage from AI, engineering is getting the most. Leverage right now. I look at tools like Cloud Code and like they, the amount of leverage engineers are getting from them is higher than I think the amo…”
Anthropic ships up to 80 percent of product features without a PRD
“Probably 70, 70%, maybe 6070, 80% of what we ship does not have a PRD.”
Avasare: PRDs are largely outdated for high-performing product teams
“By and large, I think PIDs are just outdated at this point. And you can just kick things off with a good team without, without needing to do that sort of thing.”
Anthropic built a chatbot before ChatGPT but withheld it over safety
“Anthropic had a version of Claude. We had a chatbot before ChatGPT was launched, and we had ultimately chosen not to launch it for safety reasons. I think the team didn't want to kick off Effectively like an AI global arms race”
New Anthropic hires must discard up to 70 percent of past playbooks
“One of the biggest things you come into Anthropic is you need to understand that probably, yeah, 50, 60, 70% of how you operate in the past, just throw it out the door. It's not going to be relevant.”
Anthropic softens public AI risk warnings because internal beliefs sound extreme
“I think we actually believe in this stuff more strongly than we say externally, so, like, it is just such a Key part of how we think internally that sometimes like we just like re, you know, reword your statements because it's like, people might just think we'…”
Avasare: AI labs must lead commercially to influence industry safety standards
“If you're in the game and you're a leading player and what you're doing is working, you can influence people in, who are also in the game to take the right actions. And so that is like the core of it. Like if we just pack up and go home, you have no influence …”
Anthropic revenue grew from $100M in 2023 to roughly $10B in 2025
“That, that 10 X year on year revenue growth trend has been there since the beginning. I think, twenty-twenty-three was zero to a hundred mil. Twenty-twenty-four was hundred to one. Last year was one to roughly 10.”
Avasare: Capability overhang is one of the AI industry's biggest problems
“One of the biggest Problems in the industry is capability overhang, where the models are just getting better so quickly. And it, the real challenge is on the product side of how do we start to diffuse those benefits to people”
Anthropic Project CA$H is automating growth experimentation using Claude
“We are starting to look at how do we automate growth, which I think is like a really interesting area. So our growth platform team we have, we're very lucky. We have like Alexei Komisaroka who teaches growth engineering at Reforge, and he's just like the guy o…”
Avasare: PM roles will not disappear anytime soon despite AI automation
“I think that that, that one is, is going to mean that, like, in my eyes, the work with PMs is, like, not going away, actually, and anytime soon, and that, that piece, especially for larger projects, you don't need to do as much of it for smaller stuff, right? …”
Anthropic engineers act as product managers for projects under two weeks
“The frame that we have is that if a project is less than, is two weeks of engineering time or less, then the engineer is on the hook to Effectively be the PM for that. And so that means things like talking to security, talking to legal, talking to cross-functi…”
Anthropic uses Claude to scan Slack weekly and detect project misalignments
“With Cowork, you have this, the Slack MCP, and you can tell Cowork you can tell Cowork to say, basically, look across Slack. You know, the projects that I'm working on. These are the things that are top of mind. Go and find me areas of potential misalignment r…”
Avasare uses Claude to simulate weekly executive coaching from his manager
“I basically you know, one of my manager, Ami Vora was, I think, a podcast guest of yours, right? So I say, hey, based on what you know of Ami, both publicly, she's written extensively about product, and then internally, and then our discussions, what is everyt…”
Avasare: Anthropic repeatedly took commercial hits to delay releases over safety
“And so for us, that top line objective of this just like, this needs to go well for humanity. That is something that we are happy to take a significant commercial hit for. And we've done that time and time again, right? So like we have, you know, like back the…”
Avasare: Anthropic growth team allocates 50% to 70% to large swings
“Probably the things that are maybe different is that we, I think that we index a lot more towards larger swings as opposed to smaller optimizations. Like if I think about a traditional growth team, I would have probably done maybe 60, 70% of my time on small t…”
Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann wrote a 2021 memo urging AI coding focus
“Something that Ben Mann is one of our founders on the vodcast had written. It's dated in 2021. I think a few months after they started the company and it was like, here's why we should just focus on AI coding. And this is like, you know, this is like five year…”
Avasare: Product-minded engineers and design-capable PMs are indispensable unicorns
“In this world of engineers are mini PMs that the engineer who is like highly product minded is a unicorn is an absolute unicorn. I think the same thing is true for PMs where it's like, okay, now, you know, this, in this ratio of the designers really stressed a…”
Mike Krieger told Avasare he was his only cold-email PM hire
“He said, I'm the only PM that he's hired from cold email.”
Avasare spends 70 percent of his time firefighting Anthropic success disasters
“I think then the, probably the big differences is I would say that like roughly 70% of what I spend my time on is, is what we internally refer to as success disasters. And that is where like things have gone so well that other things are breaking now.”
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 LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER | Head of Growth, Anthropic | 1 | 26 | 100% 3/3 | full record on Lenny's Podcast → |