Manik Gupta, Former Chief Product Officer @ Uber

Can you imagine a world without Google Maps? Well, imagine building it. Simi meets tha 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.

Most recently, Manik led 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. Since his departure, he’s become a startup advisor and investor, and founded a non-profit, CVKey, devoted to helping small businesses battle Covid-19. 

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