Google co-founder Larry Page announced a massive restructuring of the company, instituting Sundar Pichai as CEO and shifting himself and co-founder Sergey Brin to a larger holding company called Alphabet. Before you zest in yet another Indian – after Satya Nadella – heading the world’s tech giant, here are 10 things you might like to know about Sundar Pichai:
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Sundar Pichai was born in Chennai, India in 1972. He is 43 Years old.
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His real name is Pichai Sundarajan, though he is better known as Sundar Pichai.
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Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004 as a product and Innovation officer after his MBA.
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Pichai was named the Siebel Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the Ivy League universities.
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Pichai earned his Bachelors degree from IIT Kharagpur and was also the silver medalist of his batch.
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In the US, Sundar finished his M.S. from Stanford University and later went on to do MBA from Wharton University.
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Before being appointed as the CEO, Sundar was the Vice President of Android, Chrome & Apps at Google.
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Sundar has been largely responsible for the creation of Google Drive, the Gmail app and Google video codec.
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It was his efforts on the Chrome OS and Android apps that put him at the top spot in Google.
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Twitter tried to employ Pichai in 2011 but Google paid him a boggling $50 million to stay back on his job in Google. Pichai was also rumoured to have been approached by Microsoft for the post of its CEO.
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