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Uber, the taxi-hailing service for smartphones, is hiring Internet veteran Jeff Holden as its chief product officer, the companyâs spokesman said in an email.
Holden will join Uber from Groupon, the daily-deal site which acquired his software startup in 2011. Before that, he spent nearly a decade managing supply chain and software development at Amazon.com.
Holdenâs expertise building mobile software may help Uber set its apps apart from rival car-sharing services such as Lyft and Sidecar. Uberâs last major software upgrade came in late 2012, when the company added new tools like fare estimates and better tracking of nearby vehicles.
Chief Executive Travis Kalanick is bolstering the management bench at one of the worldâs most valuable private startups. Holden joins a team that includes Chief Technology Officer Thuan Pham, a former vice president at VMWare; and Ryan Graves, a young tech executive who briefly held the CEO post at Uber.
âHaving experienced Amazonâs hyper-growth from the very early days, Jeff knows how to think big while building for the long-term,â Kalanick wrote in a blog post.
âThis is truly day one at Uber: The vision far transcends what is visible today,â Holden said in an emailed statement. âThe idea of being on this journey with this amazing team is truly awesome.â
Holdenâs earlier startup, Pelago, built a mobile app called Whrrl that helped users find local places of interest in their cities. Groupon shut the app down after the acquisition and promoted Holden to oversee its products.
Groupon said in a regulatory filing that Holden would be departing the company March 18.
(From the "Digits" blog post. Thanks to Douglas Macmillan.)