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Sundar Pichai: popular mobile OS - a geniuses - Stanford. The plane ticket
fact made perhaps more to America cost more than his Dad’s
Google’s new boss startling by the fact Pichai›s annual salary.
family did not possess a At Google, Pichai is described as soft-
telephone until he was 12 spoken, and well liked. He is also very
years old. popular among developers - he runs
Google’s annual developer event, I/O.
from humble roots Challenges “Sundar has been saying the things
According to a profile I would have said (and sometimes
in Bloomberg magazine, better!) for quite some time now, and
I’ve been tremendously enjoying our
Pichai›s upbringing was work together,” wrote Larry Page in
his blogpost announcing all the big
humble. His family lived changes.
in a two room apartment. Larry Page and Sergey Brin have
been hands-off with Google’s day-to-
Pichai didn›t have a room - day running for sometime, and so, in
Pichai’s life, today’s announcement is
WITH Google creating its own parent equally, a reassuring reminder of the he slept on the living room simply making it official: he’s in charge.
company, Alphabet, there’s a bit of floor, as did his younger brother. His remit is best summed up as Google’s
moving about in the Google boardroom. so-called “American Dream”. The family didn›t own a television, core products - the bits that make the
Larry Page is now chief executive of or a car. But Pichai›s father planted real money. That includes things like
Alphabet. Sergey Brin is its president. Pichai was born and schooled the seeds of technology into his boy›s search, advertising, maps and YouTube.
And moving up to be in charge of mind, partly thanks to his job at He has challenges to navigate, like
Google is 43-year-old Sundar Pichai. in Chennai, India. He British conglomerate General Electric YouTube’s increasingly intense battle
Company (not to be confused with the with Facebook in the video space.
studied Metallurgical Engineering at The social network has dramatically
increased the amount of video being
the Indian Institute of Technology in watched on its site - but YouTube still
holds the title of most popular, for now
Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur). According at least.
to one of his tutors, quoted in the Times American General Electric).
«I used to come home and talk to
Great news for Pichai, and good news of India, Pichai was the “brightest of his him a lot about my work day and
too for India - his appointment makes batch”. the challenges I faced,» Regunatha
him the latest Indian to earn a massively Pichai said, adding that Sundar had a
high-profile job in the US technology He has evidently used his talent to remarkable talent for remembering
industry. Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is great effect at Google, a company he telephone numbers.
the other notable example. joined in 2004. Products under his After graduating from IIT Kharagpur,
Pichai’s life story is remarkable, and his watch include Google›s web browser, Pichai was offered a scholarship at
rise to the top of Google is a glowing Chrome, as well as the Android mobile the ultimate breeding ground of tech
endorsement of India’s standing in operating system.
the global technology industry, and Android is by far the world›s most
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