Meet Uber's newly promoted chief product officer, Manik Gupta
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.