"Sundar Pichai has had a meteoric rise since joining Google as a 31-year-old product manager in 2004. In the 11 years that followed his first steps on the Googleplex, Pichai was promoted four times, eventually becoming the CEO of Google in 2015. In that role, he was responsible for the company's core businesses and cash cow - and did a good enough job that, in December 2019, he was promoted one more time, replacing Google cofounder Larry Page as the CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company. Since then, he has led the almost-$2-trillion company through the pandemic, layoffs, and the AI renaissance that's taken Silicon Valley by storm."
"Pichai, whose full name is actually Pichai Sundararajan, grew up in Chennai, India. Pichai's father was an electrical engineer, and his mother worked as a stenographer before having him and his younger brother. The family wasn't wealthy, and the boys slept together in the living room of their two-room apartment. Early on, Pichai's family realized he had a talent for remembering numbers after noticing he could recall every phone number he had ever dialed on their rotary phone. He has been known to sometimes show off his memorization skills at meetings, Bloomberg said in 2014."
"After becoming interested in computers - the first software program he wrote was a chess game - Pichai studied engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. His success there won him a scholarship to Stanford University. Pichai earned a master's degree from Stanford and later attended the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School for his MBA. Pichai has said that moving to California was a huge leap. "I always loved technology growing up," Pichai said in a 2014 interview at Delhi University. "I used to read about what was happening i"
Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004 as a 31-year-old product manager and earned multiple promotions, becoming Google CEO in 2015 and Alphabet CEO in 2019. He led the company through the pandemic, layoffs, and a rapid AI renaissance while managing core businesses. Pichai grew up in Chennai in a modest household, demonstrated early numeric memory talent, and developed an interest in computers by writing a chess program. He studied engineering at IIT Kharagpur, earned a master's at Stanford, and completed an MBA at Wharton, describing the move to California as a significant leap.
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