Rachel K. from Maven

Top Instructor AMA

Gagan Biyani

CEO + Co-Founder @ Maven

Mallory Contois

VP of Growth @ Maven

Rishin Banker

VP of Product @ Maven

Rachel Kennedy

Head of Instructor Success @ Maven

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Hear directly from Gagan on the vision for Maven's future

Maven's vision for professional education

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Extra time for discussion with top instructors

Sell your ideas, manage up, gain buy-in, and increase your impact. Sharpen your skills via hands-on exercises, deep dives, scripts, and more

Co-founder of Maven (a16z, First Round)

Anthropic

Atlassian

DoorDash

Google

Wes Kao

Co-founder of Maven. Co-founder of altMBA. Followed by 300k+ operators in tech

Cohort 11 (May)

Cohort 12 (July)

Update: The May cohort is sold out, but the July cohort is now open for enrollment. Over 2,000 tech operators have taken this course. If you've been thinking about joining, I'd love to see you in class.___If you're a high performer, you likely got to where you are because of your raw talent and ability to execute.But now that your scope has grown, your ability to increase impact depends on how well you influence others.No one teaches you how to do this beyond the basics...Until now.In this 2-day intensive course, you will learn practical ways to:<ul><li>Influence stakeholders to get buy-in</li><li>Prevent avoidable back-and-forth, friction, pushback</li><li>Write/speak more clearly and concisely</li><li>Pitch your ideas to increase chances of getting a yes</li><li>Appeal to impatient executives with high expectations</li></ul>During the course, you will drink from the firehose.You won't become a different person overnight. But my goal is to help you dramatically improve your competence and confidence in a condensed period of time.You and your team can move faster. You can prevent avoidable friction.You can accomplish more of what you want--and have more fun in the process.

Strong communication is a force multiplier

Present to your CEO to maximize highly-visible moments

Managing up in day-to-day interactions

Frame your ideas and give the right amount of context in any situation

Identify ways to improve your own writing

Influence up and sideways to get things done

There's a difference between "I know this" vs "I do this."  This course is for operators who are strong and want to get even sharper.

You are open-minded and intellectually honest

This is not for you if you want a slower-paced course over several weeks. This is a 2-day intensive designed for busy operators.

You are looking for a condensed, intensive experience

This is not for you if you expect to become excellent in communication overnight. You will need to practice ongoing to build muscle memory.

You will continue practicing after the course

Senior individual contributors (ICs). Marketing leads, PMs, engineers, program managers, UX designers, etc. Minimum 3+ years of experience.

People managers and leaders (heads of, team leads, directors). You run a team and have to get buy-in upwards and x-functionally.

Teams who want shared language so you can move faster, give feedback faster, have shared expectations, and persuade folks outside your team.

You’ll learn how to design, evaluate, and ship reliable AI systems, becoming a PM who can lead beyond demos.

2026-02

Ex-Google | Prof UCLA & UMN | Founder

Walmart

Gallup

UCLA

University of Minnesota

Hamza Farooq

Founder | Ex-Google |
Adjunct UCLA & UMN, SCU | Venture Partner

AI Product Builder | Startup Advisor

Aishwarya Ashok

2026-01

2026-03

Welcome to the ever evolving top-rated OG course of Maven. 3 years, 15+ cohorts, thousands of students, and a proven record of turning strategy into execution.Once you enroll, you're enrolled for life. Receive all course updates, join any class! <h2>💡 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN </h2><ul><li>Identify high-impact AI use cases with real business value</li><li>Design and evaluate production-ready AI workflows and agents</li><li>Learn orchestration, memory, retrieval, and guardrail patterns used in modern AI systems</li><li>Build the technical intuition needed to lead AI initiatives with confidence </li></ul><h2>🚀 NEW IN THE 2026 CURRICULUM </h2><ul><li>AI evaluation frameworks used in real production systems</li><li>Hands-on Claude Code workshops for building AI agents</li><li>Advanced multi-agent orchestration patterns </li></ul><h2>🤖 THE CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE</h2>You won’t just learn concepts — you’ll build and present a working AI product.Prototype → Workflow → Production Agent<h2> ✨ WHY THIS COURSE?</h2>Most AI products fail for the same reason: they work in demos, not in real workflows.This cohort is designed for people who want to understand how modern AI systems are actually designed, evaluated, and shipped — from orchestration and reliability to real-world production constraints.

Build and Deploy Actual AI Agents that Drive Real Business Impact

Foundations of AI Agents & the GenAI Ecosystem

Thinking Like a PM, Building Like an Engineer

Building Production-Ready Agents

Multi-Agent Systems & Orchestration

Guardrails, Evaluations & Reliability

If you have never written code before, no worries. We’ll give all the support and everything you will need.

Just be willing to learn, we'll take care of the rest

Product Managers&nbsp;looking to integrate AI into their roadmaps and communicate with stakeholders confidently.

Business &amp; Non-Technical Leaders. Executives and consultants who need to translate AI into business value and strategy.

Job Seekers &amp; Career Builders.&nbsp;Professionals aiming to create standout portfolio projects and pivot into AI roles.

The insights and key decisions behind Course-Market Fit and success on Maven.

xVP at Maven, Qual Research Expert

Maven

Vanina Schick

Product Marketing Leader I Qualitative Research Expert I Course Design Consultant

Cohort 1

July 2026

Every successful consultant, advisor, and coach hits a ceiling at some point. Selling time does not scale past the hours in the day.A live, cohort-based offer on Maven can open a new market for you. But before you invest in building one, you need to know it will actually sell. Your time is money.In this course we cover the key criteria that reliably predict success on Maven, and address them one by one for your specific area of expertise. I call it the Course-Market Fit Process.Built on deep qualitative research that I did as VP Marketing at Maven, it fast-tracks you to market clarity and compresses months of iteration into days.You will leave with a concept you are confident to take to market: rigorously stress-tested against the criteria that predict commercial success, positioned to command a premium price and grow your audience and authority.Longer-term you will get:<ul><li>New clients to funnel into your high-ticket engagements.</li><li>Revenue that does not track directly to the hours you work.</li><li>An extended digital presence that builds your reputation with new audiences.</li></ul>

Craft a Market-Ready Offer That Builds Your Audience, Authority & Revenue

The Audience Lens → Decide who your offer is for

The Outcomes Lens → Pick the topic worth building

The Go-To-Market Lens → Reach the right buyers

You are actively planning to monetize your experience by teaching (on or off Maven)

You want to build an educational offer

You have deep experience that the market already recognizes as valuable

Your are an expert in your domain

This is low-ego space for senior practitioners to embrace a new challenge and get hands-on

 You are coachable and want to learn by doing

AI, Business &amp; Leadership Consultants—you're ready for your revenue to scale beyond the hours you put in.

Fractional Executives &amp; Advisors—you've solved the same problem dozens of times and you've developed a repeatable approach.

Published Maven Experts—you've launched but sales are not meeting expectations, you want to focus on quickly getting to Course-Market Fit

Mahesh & his team of mentors (10+) have taught 13k+ PM's on Maven

AI Lead-built early Agents @Google, Meta

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft

Mahesh Yadav 

Ex AI Product Lead -Google l Meta l Microsoft l AWS | 10k+ Alums l Founder - Agentic AI Institute

Trailblazers

Claude Code can solve world hunger but you literally do not even know what to ask Claude Code because you don't know what the engineering/product terms are. If you graduated beyond AI prototyping and now are coming to terms with your lack of technical knowledge and petrified of committing to main this course is for you.Spend 6 hours with me and 10+ mentors to become a product engineer that can build with AI. Who we serve:<ul><li>You work in customer facing roles (Marketing/Sales/UX) or back office (Finance/Legal/Accounts). You have lot of ideas but today cannot bring them to production.</li><li>You work in operations (project/program/analyst) and you are petrified with pace of AI and unable to AI to excel in your current role or get to your next role.</li></ul>What we offer:<ul><li>Learn engineering lingo and fundamentals to thrive in AI world (PRD, Git pull/push, skills and agents).</li><li>What is possible with Claude Code (beyond basics) and get battle tested claude skills (real and .md files)</li><li>Learn hands period. We will not only show and tell - but - build and debug with you.</li></ul>Mahesh has 21+ exp. working at Google/Meta/AWS in AI and is most knowledgable and generous leader on Maven.

Program/Project Managers You manage the people who build. You live in spreadsheets &amp; standups. You coordinate everything except the code.

Designers Your Figma files are beautiful. Your GitHub repo is empty. This workshop fixes the second problem without touching the first.

Sales &amp; Marketing You know the customer's problem better than anyone. You rely on dev for every tool, every landing page, every automation.

Top Instructor AMA

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

You'll learn from

Gagan Biyani

Mallory Contois

Rishin Banker

Rachel Kennedy