Meet Uber's newly promoted chief product officer, Manik Gupta
15 Nov 2018 12:36 PM GMT
Manik Gupta got his first taste of solving logistics nightmares when, fresh out of college, he was delivering Palm Pilots around Singapore. He?d started a precursor to Groupon called BuyItTogether. ?We were a full-stack marketplace where we were also delivering the goods. That?s what caused us to not have good profit margins. Actually, zero profit [?]
- That’s why today Uber announced that it’s promoted its VP of maps and marketplace Manik Gupta to become its new chief product officer.
- His first big projects will be augmenting GPS for more accurate pickups and making Uber’s new rider and driver loyalty program work in every market.
- From entrepreneurship to the massive supply chain of HP, to the top of Google India and now at Uber, Gupta is one of those technologists who lives to eliminate frustration.
- He launched Google Maps in India and managed MapMaker, the crowdsourcing tool that gave Google feet on the ground in tiny towns around the world.
- Drawing on his Google Maps experience, Gupta is developing a new way to make sure drivers and riders can always find each other.
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