ONE OF THE GREAT
SUNDAR PICHAI
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| Born | Pichai Sundararajan July 12, 1972 Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (B.Tech.) Stanford University (M.S.) University of Pennsylvania (MBA) |
| Occupation | CEO of Google |
| Employer | Google (2004–present) |
| Salary | US$199.7 million (2016) |
| Net worth |  US$1.2 billion(2017) |
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| Spouse(s) | Anjali Pichai |
| Children | 2 |
Pichai Sundararajan (born 12 July 1972), also known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian
American business executive.
Pichai is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Google Inc. Formerly the Product Chief of Google, Pichai'S
current role was announced on 10 August 2015, as part of the restructuring process that made Alphabet
Inc. into Google's parent company, and he assumed the position on 2 October 2015.
Pichai was born in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Sundar Pichai’s 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. Sundar grew up in a two-room apartment
in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.
Sundar completed schooling in Jawahar Vidyalaya, a Central Board of Secondary Education school in
Ashok Nagar, Chennai and completed the Class XII from Vana Vani school in the Indian Institute of
Technology Madras. Pichai earned his degree from Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering. He is currently a distinguished alumnus. He holds
an M.S. from Stanford University in Material Sciences and Engineering, and an MBA from the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar,
respectively.
Pichai worked in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company.
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. He went on to oversee the development of different applications such
as Gmail and Google Maps. On 19 November 2009, Pichai gave a demonstration of Chrome OS;
the Chromebook was released for trial and testing in 2011, and released to the public in 2012. On 20 May
2010, he announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new
video format, WebM.
On 13 March 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversees. Android was
formerly managed by Andy Rubin. He was a director of Jive Software from April 2011 to 30 July
2013. Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on 10 August 2015 after previously being
appointed Product Chief by CEO, Larry Page. On 24 October 2015 he stepped into the new position at
the completion of the formation of Alphabet Inc., the new holding company for the Google company
family.
Pichai had been suggested as a contender for Microsoft's CEO in 2014, a position that was eventually
given to Satya Nadella.
In August 2017, Pichai drew publicity for firing a Google employee who wrote a ten-
page manifesto criticizing the company's diversity policies and arguing that "distribution of preferences
and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and ... these differences may
explain why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership". While noting that the
manifesto raised a number of issues that are open to debate, Pichai said in a memo to Google
employees that "to suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited
to that work is offensive and not OK".
In December 2017, Pichai was a speaker at the World Internet Conference in China, where he stated that
“a lot of work Google does is to help Chinese companies. There are many small and medium-sized
businesses in China who take advantage of Google to get their products to many other countries outside of China.”
From nothing he has achieved everything.Everyone should take him as a inspiration and start to work
hard towards their respective goals.Everyone has their own talent in their own way. It is just their mind to
convince their body to work hard for it.
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