Head of Growth (Anthropic): Anthropic is automating its own growth

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Anthropic’s Head of Growth Amol Avasare reveals how the company automated growth experiments with Claude and scaled from $1B to $19B ARR in 14 months.

  • Anthropic grew from $1B to $19B ARR in 14 months; revenue doubled in just the last few months of that run.
  • Internally, Anthropic’s growth team built ‘CASH’ (Claude Accelerate Sustainable Hyperscale) to automate growth experiment ideation and execution using Claude.
  • The growth team skews 70/30 toward large bets over micro-optimizations, the inverse of most growth teams, because AI product value is expected to be 100-1000x higher in two years.
  • Avasare’s morning routine includes Claude automatically analyzing 20-25 charts and surfacing insights before he reviews them.
  • Adding friction to onboarding — not removing it — drove the biggest activation gains at Mercury, Masterclass, and Anthropic by routing users to the right product.
  • The ratio of PMs to engineers may need to flip: as AI makes engineers exponentially more productive, the bottleneck shifts to product judgment.
  • Anthropic employees use internal ‘notebook channels’ on Slack as personal feeds; these posts are also fed to Claude as context to improve internal AI tooling.
  • Avasare cold-emailed CPO Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram) at his personal address to land the role — no open job listing existed at the time.

2026-04-05 · Watch on YouTube