From Madurai to Mountain View, 10 things about Google CEO Sundar Pichai you want to know

One thing every Indian feels proud of is fact that India-born Sundar Pichai is face of Google, one of world's largest techlogy companies. And w, in dition to his current role as CEO of Google, Pichai is also taking over leership role at Google parent as CEO of Alphabet. This is undoubtedly most significant achievement for Pichai. But more importantly, it's also a responsibility that Pichai w has to perform.

In a letter to employees, Google CEO h this to say about transition of his role:

"I want to be clear that this transition won't affect Alphabet structure or work we do day to day. I will continue to be very focused on Google and deep work we’re doing to push boundaries of computing and build a more helpful Google for everyone. At same time, I’m excited about Alphabet and its long term focus on tackling big challenges through techlogy"

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Apart from Pichai being born and brought up in India until gruation, re are so many or things about him that you may t be aware of. In this article, we take a closer look at Pichai's humble beginning, early life, education and career.

Story of Google CEO Sundar Pichai

1. Sundar Pichai's actual name is Pichai Sundararajan. Born in Murai, Tamil Nu, India on June 10, 1972, Pichai grew up in a two-room apartment in Chennai's Ashok Nagar area.

2. Pichai completed his secondary schooling from Jawahar Vidyalaya Higher Secondary Education school in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.

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3. Pichai completed his higher secondary education from Vanavani Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Indian Institute of Techlogy Mras.

4. Pichai earned his degree from Indian Institute of Techlogy Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering. He is also a distinguished alumnus from IIT Kharagpur.

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5. Pichai holds a Master's degree from Stanford University in material sciences and engineering, in dition to an MBA from Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.

6. Prior to joining Google, Pichai worked in engineering and product manment at Applied Materials and in manment consulting at McKinsey & Company.

7. In 2004, Pichai joined Google to le product manment for client software products, including Chrome and Chrome OS. He was also primarily responsible for Google Drive back n.

8. Subsequently, Pichai went on to supervise development of or applications such as Gmail and Google Maps in an official capacity.

9. In 2013, Pichai took over responsibility of Android, which was being mand by Android founder Andy Rubin.

10. In 2015, Pichai was appointed as chief executive officer of Google while Larry P and Sergey Brin took over leership responsibility in manment as CEO and President of Google-parent Alphabet, respectively.