Manik Gupta spent seven years building Google Maps for the entire world. Now he’s at Uber, where he directs the development of mapping and related products for the company that changed how we all get from point A to B.
Gupta visited the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota yesterday. He gave the keynote address at the Social Media and Business Analytics Collaborative's spring research symposium. He shared insights from his experiences developing geo services, grappling with the challenges of online and offline linkages, and other design decisions.