Manik Gupta

Chapters

Two Patterns of Career Success: People and Technology Optimism

Building Google Maps in India: Technology Solving Real Problems

Uber ETA Under 5 Minutes: Product Excellence at Scale

Consumer Products: Two Counterintuitive Insights

Company-Product Fit: Before Product-Market Fit

The Consumer Stack: Five Capabilities for Success

What Makes PMs Ready for Promotion: Impact, Clarity, Followership

Career Inflection Points: Product Breakthroughs and Management Transitions

Product vs Sales: Building a Complete Organization

Learning from Crisis: Pandemic Hiring and Organizational Adaptation

Key Concepts

• career progression
• causality in growth
• clarity creation
• company portfolio thinking
• consumer product difficulty
• crisis management
• crowdsourcing data
• demonstrated impact
• design thinking
• economic cycles
• focus and prioritization
• followership
• global vs local
• heterogeneous users
• hiring discipline
• inflection moments
• instrumentation
• long-term relationships
• manager to manager-of-managers
• market opportunity
• marketplace optimization
• multiple engines
• operational excellence
• orchestration
• organizational holism