Manik Gupta, Former Chief Product Officer @ Uber and Investor

South Asian Trailblazers

Can you imagine a world without Google Maps? Well, imagine building it. Simi meets the man behind Maps, Manik Gupta, Investor and Former Chief Product Officer at Uber.

Manik Gupta mapped the world from scratch as a Product Leader for Google Maps, where he also spearheaded the Maps launch in India and led the parent company’s acquisition of Waze. His foray into tech began out of college, when he founded an e-commerce startup called BuyItTogether.com, which he subsequently sold. Afterwards, he joined Hewlett Packard, managing their e-commerce initiatives in Asia-Pacific.

In this episode, they chat about Manik's time spent leading an 1100+ person team as the Chief Product Officer at Uber, where he helped lead the company through its May 2019 IPO and grow to 100 million+ monthly active platform customers. And they also touch on his departure, his reasons why, and what he's up to since: becoming a startup investor and founding a non-profit, CVKey, devoted to helping small businesses battle Covid-19.

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