Google stunned the world on August 10, 2015 when it announced its CEO Sundar Pichai. By the way, it was a matter of great pride for the people of India that an Indian person has been chosen as the CEO of Google, the largest company in the world.
It seems very easy to hear that Sundar Pichai is the CEO of a big company like Google but there are very few people who know how much hard work and struggle is behind this failure.
Do you know the inspiring story of Sundar Pichai?
Have you heard the story of Sundar Pichai becoming CEO from Google Product Manager?
If not! So you can find out by doing his full biography below. Today, Sundar Pichai is known all over the world for his progress.
Early Life and Childhood Early Life
Sundar Pichai's full name is Pichai Sundararajan who was born on July 12, 1972 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He was born into a lower middle class family. His father was an electrical engineer so he used to lived in Ashok Nagar in Chennai city. He was always inspired by his father and that is why he was also inspired to get involved in technology. His mother's name was Lakshmi. She was a stenographer. He quit his stenographer job after the birth of Sundar Pichai's younger brother.
When Sundar Pichai was 12 years old, his father brought a land line phone home. It was the first technology-related thing in his life that came to the house of the beautiful Joe Pichai. Sundar Pichai had very unique quality/remarkable knowledge. He could easily remember all the numbers dialed in his telephone. Not just phone numbers, they could easily remember all kinds of numbers. He was good in sports as well as studies and he was also the captain of his school cricket team.
Education Study
Sundar Pichai completed her 10th class at Jawahar Vidyalaya in Ashok Nagar and her 12th class examination at Wana Vani School in Chennai. After that he completed his graduation in Metallurgical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur.
He then completed his MS (Masters in Science) degree in Physics at Stanford University and eventually moved to Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania for an MBA.
Pretty Pichai's career before joining Google Google Career
Prior to joining Google, Sundar Pichai worked as an operating consultant at McKinsey & Company.
He also contributed his talents in the field of applied materials as engineering and product management.
Pichai's life after joining Google
Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004. Initially, he worked with a small team on the Google Search Tool Bar. With the help of this Toolbar, people are still able to do Google Search in Internet Explorer, Firefox.
He additionally worked on Google products, for example, Google Gear and Google Pack. After the success of Google Toolbar, Sundar Pichai came up with a new idea to create his own internet browser. Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google, called the idea of building his own Internet browser a very expensive project and refused.
But even after his refusal, Pichai decided to do so and persuaded Google co-creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin to do the same. In 2008, Google launched its own web browser, Chrome, with the help of Sundar Pichai. Google Chrome has been a great success because it allows people to use Google Search Diectly. Today Google Chrome is one of the most used web browser in the world.
In the same year 2008, Sundar Pichai was also promoted as the Vice President of Product Development. When he resulted in these present circumstances position, Sundar Pichai began working considerably harder and in 2012 he became the senior vice president of Chrome and Apps.
Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, left Andoid's project in 2013 due to another project. After this, Larry Page made Pichai an in-charge of Android. Later in October 2014, he was made the product chief.
On August 10, February 20, 2016, Alphabet Inc. 273,328 shares were honored on the day.
He still interacts with the students of IIT Kharagpur through Skype from time to time
On the 15th, Sundar Pichai was announced as the CEO of Google.
Personal Life of Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai is married to his long time sweetheart, Anjali Pichai. They both studied together at IIT Kharagpur. They also have two delightful children, a boy and a girl.
He purchased a home in Brooklyn, New York around 6.8 million.
He is now a citizen of U.S.A, so he lives in New York with his family.
Wow, it's a pride for all Indians. Thank you for sharing this information. I just only know now about Google's CEO.