Journey Of Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, has now become CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet. Pichai has been appointed on this post follo...

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, has now become CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet. Pichai has been appointed on this post following the resignations of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. All the services and products of Google come under its parent company Alphabet.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin will remain with the company as co-founders and board of directors. However, Sundar Pichai will hold a new responsibility. Larry Page resigned as CEO of Alphabet, while Sergey Brin stepped down as President of Alphabet.

About Sundar Pichai

• Sundar Pichai was born in 1972 in Chennai. His original name is Pichai Sundararajan, but he is known as Sundar Pichai.
• He earned his bachelor’s degree from IIT, Kharagpur.
• Pichai completed his masters from Stanford University and did MBA from Wharton University.
• He worked at a software company Applied Materials and management consulting firm McKenzie before joining Google in 2004.
• His stature has grown rapidly in the last 15 years in Google. At the beginning of his career at Google, he played an important role in developing Google Toolbar and Google Chrome.
• In 2014, he got an opportunity to lead all products and platforms of the company.
• In 2015, Sundar Pichai became the CEO of Google and in 2017 he was included on the board of directors of parent company Alphabet.
• Now, after becoming CEO of Alphabet, his portfolio includes projects such as self-driving car Waymo apart from Google's core products.

Donation To India For Covid-19

• Google chief Sundar Pichai has donated Rs 5 crore to Give India, matching Google's earlier donation to the non-profit organisation for the coronavirus pandemic.

Journey:

           As a boy growing up in Madras, Pichai slept with his brother in the living room of the cramped family home, but his father, an electrical engineer at the British multinational GEC, saw that the boys received a good education. At an early age Pichai displayed an interest in technology and an extraordinary memory, especially for telephone numbers. After earning a degree in metallurgy (B.Tech., 1993) and a silver medal at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, he was awarded a scholarship to study at Stanford University (M.S. in engineering and materials science, 1995). He remained in the United States thereafter, working briefly for Applied Materials (a supplier of semiconductor materials) and then earning an M.B.A. (2002) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

              Following a short stint at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Pichai joined Google in 2004 as the head of product management and development. He initially worked on the Google Toolbar, which enabled those using the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers to easily access the Google search engine. Over the next few years, he was directly involved in the development of Google’s own browser, Chrome, which was released to the public in 2008. That same year Pichai was named vice president of product development, and he began to take a more-active public role. By 2012 he was a senior vice president, and two years later he was made product chief over both Google and the Android smartphone operating system.