Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Manik Gupta (ex-CPO Uber, Google Maps) on how to build consumer apps, why it’s useful to be optimistic about technology, creating inflections in your PM career, the changing CPO role, and more
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
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Manik Gupta has led two of the most successful consumer products in history—Google Maps, where he was Director of product for the Maps team, and Uber, where he was CPO. After leaving Uber, he spent some time working on a product to help people avoid getting COVID called CVKey, and most recently he took on a role at Microsoft as Corporate Vice President leading many of their consumer efforts.
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In this episode, we cover:
[] Patterns for career success
[] Why it’s valuable to be optimistic about technology
[] Challenges and mistakes through Manik’s career
[] How you learn the most about yourself through challenges
[] What Manik’s learned about building successful consumer apps
[] The importance of company-product fit
[] “The consumer stack”—what your company needs to have in place to build a successful consumer product
[] The path from PM to CPO
[] Evolution of CPO role
[] What leads to promotions in a PM career
[] What creates inflections in one’s PM career
[] How PMs shoot themselves in the foot
[] What it’s like to work at Google vs. Uber vs. Microsoft
[] What he wished he built into Google Maps
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Where to find Manik:
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manikg/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/manikgupta
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