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

Monik 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. Or he was chief product officer.

After leaving Uber? He spent most of his time working on a product to help people avoid getting COVID. Called C B key. And most recently he took on a role at Microsoft as corporate vice president. Leading much of their consumer efforts.

In our conversation. We cover what he's learned about building successful consumer products. How to structure and hire product teams building consumer apps. A concept call the consumer stack. Company market fit versus product market fit.

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