Sundar Pichai CEO @Google and Alphabet
Biography:
- Pichai Sundararajan, also known as Sundar Pichai,
Pichai was born in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India.
- His mother, Lakshmi, was a stenographer, and his father, Regunatha Pichai, was an electrical engineer at GEC, the British conglomerate. His father also had a manufacturing plant that produced electrical components.
- Pichai grew up in a two-room apartment in Ashok Nagar, Chennai, and had a Hindu upbringing.
Education:
- Pichai completed schooling in Jawahar Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School, a Central Board of Secondary Education school in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.
- He completed the Class XII from Vana Vani school at IIT Madras.
- Later he cracked the IIT-JEE examinations and joined IIT Kharagpur where he pursued a course in Metallurgy(1993).
- After his B-Tech, he like many others of his generation went off to the United States where he completed a Master's in Science from Stanford(1995).
- Then earned an M.B.A. (2002) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Professional Career:
- After completing his MBA, Pichai initially joined Applied Materials(a supplier of semiconductor materials) as a Product Manager
- Then worked as a management consultant with McKinsey.
- Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive.
- Later he worked in google as vice-president of product management and worked on the Toolbar which was designed to simplify search on Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox
Toolbar’s success inspired Pichai to launch Google's own browser.
- In 2008, Google launched Chrome which became a hit with millions across the world in no time
- His stellar performance soon saw Pichai being promoted as the senior vice-president of Google Chrome and Google Apps in 2012
- In 2013, Google promoted him as the head of the company's mobile operating system, Android,
- By 2014 he was given charge of Search, Maps, and Gmail. With this, the IIT-Kharagpur alumnus became one of the most powerful technology executives in the world.
- In 2014, he was one of the candidates in contention for the post of Microsoft CEO, but Google managed to retain him.
- In a blog post in August 2015, Larry Page announced the launch of Alphabet and Google became a subsidiary of this new company and Pichai was made the CEO of Google.
- In 11 years he rose the ladder and became the operations chief of the technology behemoth which now consisted of Search, Advertising, Maps, YouTube, and Android.
- Since he took over, Google's market cap more than doubled to $900 billion.
- Pichai’s special interest in India has led Google to tie up with the Indian Railways for high-speed internet at railway stations.
- In December 2019, Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote a letter in which they announced that they were stepping down and appointed Sundar Pichai as the CEO of Alphabet in addition to his existing role of Google CEO.
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