“You might fail a few times, but that’s Ok. You end up doing something worthwhile which you learn a great deal from.”
MR. SUNDAR PICHAI C.E.O. OF GOOGLE AND ALPHABET
He was born on 10th June 1972 in Madras. In this article we are to discuss how a boy who lived in a two room apartment in Chennai became the CEO of GOOGLE. We will discuss his family, about his career, about his struggles etc.
Early life and Family
His father, Mr. Raghunath Pichai, was an electrical engineer in the British conglomerate GEC where his mother Mrs. Lakshmi Pichai , was a stenographer.
Pichai has done his schooling in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya a CBSE board school at Ashok Nagar Chennai and completed his XII class in Vana Vani school. He has completed his degree in metallurgy (B.Tech., 1993) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and earned a silver medal and was awarded with a scholarship to study at Stanford University (M.S. in engineering and materials science, 1995). He completed his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and was named as a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar, respectively.
Career
After completing his studies, Pichai worked for several years in the product management department of the consulting company McKinsey.
He joined Google in 2004 where he was entrusted with the work related to ‘Product Management‘ and ‘New Discoveries and New Ideas’. Under this he installed Google Chrome, Chrome OS. and played a key role in the development of products such as Google Drive.
Along with this, he also played an important role in the application development of important products like Google Maps and Gmail. Sundar Pichai in Chrome OS on 19 November 2009. and then the Chromebook was launched in 2011 for testing and testing. After testing and testing, it was launched for the customers in 2012.
In May 2010, Pichai announced the open sourcing of Google’s new video codec VP8. This video codec from Google introduced a new video format WebM.
In March 2013, Android also joined Sundar Pichai’s products. Prior to this, Android work and development was under the management of Andy Rubin. In 2014, the next CEO of Microsoft. The name of Sundar Pichai as (Chief Executive Officer) remained in the news.
Sundararajan Pichai to be the next CEO of Google (Chief Executive Officer) was informed on 10 August 2015. On October 24, 2014, Google co-founder Larry Page announced the appointment of Pichai as head of product.
In December 2019, Pichai became the CEO of Alphabet Inc. where he took over his new position after the founding of Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. will be the holding company of all of Google’s products and companies whose CEO is (Chief Executive Officer) Larry Page.
Pichai delivered a speech virtually at the Singapore FinTech Festival emphasizing inclusive digital economy where he said that
“Our goal for the post-Covid world is to ensure the benefits of technology can be shared, as widely and equitably as possible. If we can do that, 2020 will be remembered not as the end of the world, but the beginning of a world that works better for everyone.”
Personal Life
Pichai is married to Anjali Pichai and has two children. He lives in Los Altos Hills. Pichai’s interests include football and cricket. He is an avid fan of FC Barcelona and says that “he watches every game of the team”.
Motivational Quotes
After reading the above things about Sundar Pichai and knowing about his capability , you will have that enthusiasm and inspiration that you lacked in life. And for this here are some motivational quotes given by Mr. Sundar Pichai he usually motivates us through his speeches directly or indirectly so now let us read some quotes given by him :