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AI Journey with Google Maps | In conversation with VP of Google Maps

Miriam Daniel, VP and General Manager of Google Maps, joins Mala Ramakrishnan to discuss building and scaling one of the world’s most used consumer platforms in the age of AI. From her early engineering career in India to leading Google Maps with over 2 billion monthly users, Miriam shares lessons on career pivots, the power of sponsors, learning from failure at Amazon’s Fire Phone, and helping build Alexa from the ground up. She also explains how Google Maps is evolving with Gemini, voice, and generative AI—while maintaining accuracy, trust, and privacy at planetary scale. ----------------------------------------------- Timestamps: 00:00 Intro and background 01:00 Growing up in India and engineering at BITS Pilani 02:00 Early career and move to the US 03:00 From engineering to product leadership 04:10 Why sponsors matter in big companies 05:20 Platform and mobility work at Intel 06:30 Taking a risk and joining Amazon 07:15 Fire Phone failure and leadership lessons 08:40 Building Alexa from the early days 10:10 Finding product-market fit with voice 11:40 How users shaped Alexa’s evolution 13:20 Ecosystems, developers, and scale 15:00 Why Google Maps and its mission 16:40 Gemini, AI, and the future of Maps 18:40 Accuracy, data, and trust at scale 21:00 Operating and innovating for 2B+ users 23:00 Personal inspiration and final advice ----------------------------------------------- 🔗 Connect with Miriam → https://www.linkedin.com/in/miriam-daniel-... 🔗 Connect with Mala Ramakrishnan → https://www.linkedin.com/in/malaramakrishnan 🎧 Subscribe to the podcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnL3... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1NIDE4cT5fuV... Apple Podcast: https://podcastsconnect.apple.com/my-podca... Visit our Website: www.malaramakrishnan.com | www.founderscreative.ai