Xoogler & Blueprint fireside chat with Manik Gupta
Manik will be sharing his 5 key observations from his recent trip to India. He will be covering product, talent, startup ecosystem, culture and the market during this fireside chat.
About Manik: Manik currently serves as a Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Teams. He is also an active angel investor in startups based in the US and India.
Manik has built the products that have helped millions of people discover the world, most recently serving as the Chief Product Officer at Uber. A key member of the executive team, Manik helped lead the company through its May 2019 IPO and helped the company grow to more than 100 million monthly active platform customers across Uber’s services. His 1100-person organization spanned Product Management, Data Science, Data Analyst, Design and Program Management functions. Prior to taking on this role, Manik ran Uber's Marketplace and Maps product teams, which created the best mapping solutions and marketplace technologies in the industry.
Prior to Uber, Manik was a product leader at Google Maps. His ‘Ground Truth’ team mapped the world from scratch. They collected visual data on the ground pairing it with business data to make Google Maps the most accurate, comprehensive, and useful map used by more than a billion people today.
Earlier in his career, Manik was a key part of the Asia-Pacific tech and startup scene. He founded an e-commerce startup in Singapore, BuyItTogether.com, right out of college and subsequently sold it to a Norwegian company, CoShopper.com. Subsequently, Manik managed Hewlett Packard's e-commerce initiatives in Asia-Pacific and Japan.
Manik grew up in India and studied in Singapore. He studied computer engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and received an MBA from the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.
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