Sundar Pichai - Revision history

Jyoti: /* As CEO, Google */

2021-07-17T07:28:52Z

‎As CEO, Google

Jyoti: /* In brief */

2021-07-17T07:26:48Z

‎In brief

Jyoti: /* In the student life */

2021-07-17T07:16:47Z

‎In the student life

Jyoti: /* Did Twitter rumours hasten Pichai's rise? */

2019-02-05T05:32:58Z

‎Did Twitter rumours hasten Pichai's rise?

Jyoti: /* == */

2017-03-02T19:25:24Z

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Jyoti: /* Schools attended */

2017-03-02T19:24:49Z

‎Schools attended

Jyoti: /* Reasons for success */

2016-12-07T22:09:43Z

‎Reasons for success

Jyoti: /* Did Twitter rumours hasten Pichai's rise? */

2016-12-07T22:09:14Z

‎Did Twitter rumours hasten Pichai's rise?

Pdewan at 19:04, 15 August 2015

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Pdewan: /* Early life */

2015-08-12T18:59:16Z

‎Early life

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	If these things are beginning to erode, Google could lose talent to other technology firms, undermining its ability to build new services that drive its profitable advertising business. Still, most Googlers aren’t leaving soon, with 82% of survey respondents saying they plan to be working at Google one year from now. And 86% said they would recommend Google as a place to work.		If these things are beginning to erode, Google could lose talent to other technology firms, undermining its ability to build new services that drive its profitable advertising business. Still, most Googlers aren’t leaving soon, with 82% of survey respondents saying they plan to be working at Google one year from now. And 86% said they would recommend Google as a place to work.
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		+	=As CEO of Alphabet=
		+	==2019==
		+	===One era ends, another begins===
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F12%2F05&entity=Ar02202&sk=D996CAC5&mode=text Jack Nicas & Daisuke Wakabayashi Dec 5, 2019: ''Times of India'']
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		+	[[File: Sergey Brin & Larry Page in 2011.jpg\|Sergey Brin & Larry Page in 2011 <br/> From: [https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F12%2F05&entity=Ar02202&sk=D996CAC5&mode=text Jack Nicas & Daisuke Wakabayashi Dec 5, 2019: ''Times of India''] \|frame\|500px]]
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		+	Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Stanford graduate students who founded Google over two decades ago, are stepping down from executive roles at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, they announced on Tuesday.
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		+	Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, will become the chief of both Google and Alphabet. The move is an end of an era for Google. Page and Brin have personified the company since its founding and have been two of the technology industry’s most influential figures, on a par with the founders of Apple and Microsoft, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
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		+	Their early work on the Google search engine helped corral an unruly cloud of information on the World Wide Web. And their ideas about how to run an internet company — like offering generous employee perks like free shuttle buses to the office and making rankand-file employees feel as though they have a stake in the company — became a standard for Silicon Valley.
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		+	Page is the son of academics from Michigan, while Brin’s family emigrated to Maryland from the Soviet Union when he was a child and he considers himself a refugee. They met at Stanford, where in 1996 they came up with the invention that spawned Google. Page was the visionary while Brin, a math prodigy, led the engineering.
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		+	Page and Brin took lesser roles in day-to-day operations in 2015 when they turned Google into Alphabet, a holding company that includes the self-driving car company Waymo under its umbrella.
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		+	Since then, they have spent more time overseeing a variety of so-called other bets, like life-extension technology, while Pichai ran Google and its enormous search and advertising business. Brin moved his desk for a time to X, the so-called moonshot lab where engineers worked on projects that were likely to fail — but had big potential if they didn’t. Page was rarely a presence on Google’s campus and was working on long-shot technology problems and personal side projects like his flying-car startup, Kitty Hawk. The business has continued to grow and Alphabet is among the most valuable companies in the world, but the internet giant is entering one of the most turbulent periods in its history, with antitrust scrutiny, employee walkouts and growing public scepticism of its power.
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		+	Page and Brin, who are both 46, will remain directors on Alphabet’s board and the company’s two largest individual shareholders. They retain a majority of the company’s voting shares, which will give them effective control over the board and ensure they maintain a say over the company’s future.
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	Later as he picks up a bat to knock a few balls around at an impromptu pitch in Gokulpur, he says he didn't make it to his hostel cricket team but loved to watch Gavaskar bat. Who is his favourite today? “Watching Virat Kohli through the last year has been pretty amazing. I didn't think somebody could have an average of over 50 in all three forms of the game,“ he signs off.		Later as he picks up a bat to knock a few balls around at an impromptu pitch in Gokulpur, he says he didn't make it to his hostel cricket team but loved to watch Gavaskar bat. Who is his favourite today? “Watching Virat Kohli through the last year has been pretty amazing. I didn't think somebody could have an average of over 50 in all three forms of the game,“ he signs off.
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		+	===In brief===
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F12%2F05&entity=Ar00508&sk=D484C9D5&mode=text Dec 5, 2019 ''Times of India'']
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		+	Sundar Pichai — who grew up in a two-room apartment in Chennai’s middle-class neighbourhood, Ashok Nagar, in the 1970s and 1980s — is taking over as the CEO of one of the world’s most cash-rich companies, Alphabet, the parent company of search engine giant Google.
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		+	In a move that marks the end of an era, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google in 1998, are stepping down from their executive roles at Alphabet.
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		+	Page and Brin, both Stanford graduates, have been two of the technology industry’s most influential figures, considered on a par with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Apple founder Steve Jobs.
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		+	Pichai, 47, has been the face of the tech giant as CEO of the main business since 2015. He takes charge of Alphabet at a challenging time, as it faces increased regulatory scrutiny of large digital companies and internal employee unrest, while battling to stay at the forefront of technological change.
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		+	Pichai’s elevation was announced after market hours on Tuesday in the US, with Page giving up his role as Alphabet CEO and Brin quitting as president.
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		+	'''‘Pichai brings deep passion for tech’'''
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		+	Google sits on a cash pile of $128 billion, second only to Microsoft’s $137 billion, as per Factset. But Brin and Page, who are each worth over $50 billion, have stayed away from most of the day-today management and public appearances, including internal all-hands meetings, for the last few years.
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		+	“Today, in 2019, if the company was a person, it would be a young adult of 21 and it would be time to leave the roost. While it has been a tremendous privilege to be deeply involved in the day-to-day management of the company for so long, we believe it’s time to assume the role of proud parents—offering advice and love, but not daily nagging!” wrote Page and Brin in a letter to Alphabet employees on Tuesday. The move is driven to “simplify our management structure”, they wrote, adding that “Sundar brings humility and a deep passion for technology to our users, partners and our employees every day...There is no one that we have relied on more since Alphabet was founded, and no better person to lead Google and Alphabet into the future.”
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		+	Pichai tweeted that he was “excited about his new role”. He also wrote to employees, “In my 15+ years with Google, the only constant I’ve seen is change….. I first met Larry and Sergey back in 2004 and have been benefiting from their guidance and insights ever since. The good news is I’ll continue to work with them — although in different roles for them and me.”
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		+	Pichai, an alumnus of IITKharagpur, who also holds an MS from Stanford and MBA from Wharton, joined Google in 2004 and worked on the development of the Chrome browser, Gmail and Google Maps. In 2013, he started overseeing Android, the operating system for smartphones. In 2014, Pichai was also considered a contender for the CEO role at Microsoft, which went to another Indian origin executive, Satya Nadella. He was named Google's CEO in August 2015, when the company announced its restructuring, and joined Alphabet's board 2017.
		+	Since Pichai became Google CEO, the share price of the company has doubled, giving it a market capitalisation of $894 billion at the close of trade on Tuesday. Besides leading revenue growth and product development, Pichai has also faced a regulatory backlash against tech on issues like privacy and political bias in the US including testimony to the US Congress in December 2018.
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		+	Pichai has been able to take Google — which was already a big business at revenues of $18.5 billion during the September 2015 quarter when he took over - and make it huge, at over $40.3 billion in the September 2019 quarter, a span of five years. As CEO of Alphabet, Pichai will now be in charge of multiple such businesses which can potentially be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, according to Rajan Anandan, who was the India and Southeast Asia CEO of Google for about a decade till earlier this year. “Sundar has a very unique combination of several things that make him an extraordinary leader — vision, team building, execution, humility and also the ability to make a deep connection with individuals,” said Anandan, adding that Sundar’s ability to stay calm, be thoughtful and “not get frazzled” makes him the perfect leader as Alphabet faces regulatory and policy headwinds.
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		+	Even as Page and Brin leave management roles at Alphabet, they will continue to hold voting shares of over 50% in the company giving them a say in any major decisions.
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	Pichai, with his strengths in technology and execution, and his ability to take everybody along, has always been seen as a potentially prized catch for rivals. He was also rumoured to be one of the contenders for the CEO position of Microsoft, when the company was conducting its own search in 2014		Pichai, with his strengths in technology and execution, and his ability to take everybody along, has always been seen as a potentially prized catch for rivals. He was also rumoured to be one of the contenders for the CEO position of Microsoft, when the company was conducting its own search in 2014
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		+	=As CEO, Google=
		+	==2019: staff’s faith in Pichai’s vision decreases to 78%==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2019%2F02%2F03&entity=Ar02001&sk=663CF266&mode=text Google staff’s faith in Pichai’s vision on wane: In-house poll, February 3, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Alphabet’s Google became the most-profitable internet company by recruiting talented technologists and inspiring them enough to keep them around. That advantage may be slipping as some workers increasingly doubt the leadership and vision of CEO Sundar Pichai, according to recent results from an employee survey.
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		+	The annual internal poll, known as Googlegeist, asked workers whether Pichai’s vision of what the company can achieve inspires them. In response, 78% indicated yes, down 10 percentage points from the previous year.
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		+	Another question asked if employees have confidence in Pichai and his management team to effectively lead Google in the future. Positive responses represented 74% of the total, an 18 point decline from a year earlier.
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		+	There were similar declines for questions about Pichai’s decisions and strategies, his commitment to diversity and inclusion, and the compensation the company pays, according the results. Google shares the results with all employees to make sure concerns are heard. This time, 89% of workers took the survey. A Google spokeswoman declined to comment. While the survey findings are mostly positive, the declines are a worrying shift for Google, which prides itself on high employee morale, good working conditions and high pay.
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		+	If these things are beginning to erode, Google could lose talent to other technology firms, undermining its ability to build new services that drive its profitable advertising business. Still, most Googlers aren’t leaving soon, with 82% of survey respondents saying they plan to be working at Google one year from now. And 86% said they would recommend Google as a place to work.

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 Pichai finished his Class X from Jawahar Vidyalaya at Ashok Nagar and completed his 12th from Vana Vani Matriculation School. But names of such institutions as Padma Sheshadri Bala Bhavan School, GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya and All Angels School made it to the page before they were eventually taken down. Chennai schools are known to be competitive and this may well have been a case of excited alumni trying to appropriate the world's hottest tech executive's schooling credentials.
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 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Pichai-on-making-Maggi-breaking-windows-08012017012009  Nalin Mehta & Sanjeev Singh, Pichai on making Maggi & breaking windows, Jan 8, 2017: The Times of India]

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 The newsbreak on the new Google CEO sparked an unexpected turf war on Sundar Pichai's Wikipedia page with users altering the name of the schools in Chennai he studied in, online news trackers reported.
 Pichai finished his Class X from Jawahar Vidyalaya at Ashok Nagar and completed his 12th from Vana Vani Matriculation School. But names of such institutions as Padma Sheshadri Bala Bhavan School, GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya and All Angels School made it to the page before they were eventually taken down. Chennai schools are known to be competitive and this may well have been a case of excited alumni trying to appropriate the world's hottest tech executive's schooling credentials.
 =Reasons for success=
 [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com//Article.aspx?eid=31973&articlexml=Being-boring-is-the-reason-behind-Sundar-Pichais-03042016011050 ''The Times of India''], Apr 03 2016

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	'''Being `boring' is the reason behind Sundar Pichai's success'''		'''Being `boring' is the reason behind Sundar Pichai's success'''

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	Drawing less attention to himself is the brilliant management strategy Google's new CEO used to become a powerful executive		Drawing less attention to himself is the brilliant management strategy Google's new CEO used to become a powerful executive

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	The newsbreak on the new Google CEO sparked an unexpected turf war on Sundar Pichai's Wikipedia page with users altering the name of the schools in Chennai he studied in, online news trackers reported.		The newsbreak on the new Google CEO sparked an unexpected turf war on Sundar Pichai's Wikipedia page with users altering the name of the schools in Chennai he studied in, online news trackers reported.
	Pichai finished his Class X from Jawahar Vidyalaya at Ashok Nagar and completed his 12th from Vana Vani Matriculation School. But names of such institutions as Padma Sheshadri Bala Bhavan School, GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya and All Angels School made it to the page before they were eventually taken down. Chennai schools are known to be competitive and this may well have been a case of excited alumni trying to appropriate the world's hottest tech executive's schooling credentials.		Pichai finished his Class X from Jawahar Vidyalaya at Ashok Nagar and completed his 12th from Vana Vani Matriculation School. But names of such institutions as Padma Sheshadri Bala Bhavan School, GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya and All Angels School made it to the page before they were eventually taken down. Chennai schools are known to be competitive and this may well have been a case of excited alumni trying to appropriate the world's hottest tech executive's schooling credentials.
		+	=Did Twitter rumours hasten Pichai's rise?=
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		+	[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Did-Twitter-rumours-hasten-Pichais-rise-13082015021015 ''The Times of India''], Aug 13 2015
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		+	''' Was Twitter tempting Sundar Pichai with the offer of its CEO position? '''
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		+	'' Did that get Google to fast forward its reorganization move? ''
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		+	There's been intense speculation along these lines ever since Google announced, suddenly and rather unexpectedly , that it was creating a new umbrella company called Alphabet which would have under it a slimmed down Google and a slew of other ventures that would be independent of Google.
		+	Business Insider quoted a person close to Twitter as saying: “I've been hearing that (the speculation) too and I wouldn't be shocked if they want him as CEO. They tried to hire him once about three years ago and got very close. Google countered with a huge package to keep him there. I can't imagine him making the change after being named CEO of Google today .“
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		+	Twitter has been looking for a CEO since June, when the then CEO Dick Costolo resigned. Twitter had then announced that co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey would be interim CEO while the Board conducts an executive search.
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		+	Few believe Pichai would have been tempted by the offer, if indeed it was made. Pichai, as the No 2 at Google, a far more powerful company than Twitter, would likely have been comfortable where he was. In 2011, it was rumoured that Twitter had tried to lure Pichai to head the company's consumer product division, and that Google awarded Pichai millions of dollars in stock grants to stop him from leaving.
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		+	Pichai, with his strengths in technology and execution, and his ability to take everybody along, has always been seen as a potentially prized catch for rivals. He was also rumoured to be one of the contenders for the CEO position of Microsoft, when the company was conducting its own search in 2014

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	The big transformation in his life came at IIT, where his interest in electronics and IT grew. “Though he did BTech in metallurgy from Kharagpur, he was interested in electronics,“ said Raman. IIT was also where Sundar met his future wife, Anjali, a native of Mumbai.		The big transformation in his life came at IIT, where his interest in electronics and IT grew. “Though he did BTech in metallurgy from Kharagpur, he was interested in electronics,“ said Raman. IIT was also where Sundar met his future wife, Anjali, a native of Mumbai.

−	A soft-spoken, amiable person with an outstanding academic record, Sundar managed to land a coveted scholarship at an Ivy League college. “He first completed MS from Stanford University and after this Anjali did MS while Sundar was doing a stint as a consultant at McKinsey,“ said Raman. Sundar's ~~parents now divide th~~	+	A soft-spoken, amiable person with an outstanding academic record, Sundar managed to land a coveted scholarship at an Ivy League college. “He first completed MS from Stanford University and after this Anjali did MS while Sundar was doing a stint as a consultant at McKinsey,“ said Raman.
		+	==Schools attended==
		+	''' On Wiki, a row over new CEO's school '''
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		+	The newsbreak on the new Google CEO sparked an unexpected turf war on Sundar Pichai's Wikipedia page with users altering the name of the schools in Chennai he studied in, online news trackers reported.
		+	Pichai finished his Class X from Jawahar Vidyalaya at Ashok Nagar and completed his 12th from Vana Vani Matriculation School. But names of such institutions as Padma Sheshadri Bala Bhavan School, GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya and All Angels School made it to the page before they were eventually taken down. Chennai schools are known to be competitive and this may well have been a case of excited alumni trying to appropriate the world's hottest tech executive's schooling credentials.