Chief Product Officer

The ride hailing major Uber has promoted Manik Gupta as the chief product officer of the company who has been the interim product lead at Uber since the departure of Daniel Graf in April this year. Prior to that, he ran Uber's marketplace and maps product teams for three years where he was responsible for creating mapping solutions and marketplace technologies. This move has come at a time when Uber is transitioning itself from being a taxi hailing service to an end-to-end transportation service provider. He stated that riders can connect with a private car to get from point A to B, but the company can support other transportation modes, too. “My priorities are to leverage and refine the technology that powers our ridesharing experience to support our big bets like Eats, bikes, and sco...

Jeff Holden, Uber’s chief product officer decided to quit the American cab-hailing company to pursue another opportunity, the company confirmed to Recode. Holden joined Uber’s headquarters in 2014 coming from Groupon. The timing of his departure seems very inappropriate since he was leading the firm’s flying car initiative, called Elevate, that would look like giant drones taking off vertically. In fact, last week, Uber hosted its second consecutive flying car annual summit, where the project got a very good reception from CEO Dara Khosrowshahi who stated that he would be willing to lose money to see this project take off. “We’ll take short-term losses in order to bring long-term business,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi was quoted saying. “If over the short term we ne...

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Uber’s Manik Gupta Promoted as the Chief Product Officer

Another Top Uber Executive Leaves the Company