1. Sundar Pichai is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc and its subsidiary Google.
22 Facts About Sundar Pichai
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In 2010, Sundar Pichai announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM.
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In 2013, Sundar Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversaw.
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Sundar Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10,2015, after previously being appointed chief product officer by then CEO Larry Page.
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Sundar Pichai was appointed to the Alphabet Board of Directors in 2017.
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Sundar Pichai was born on June 10,1972 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, to a Tamil Hindu family.
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Sundar Pichai's mother, Lakshmi, was a stenographer, and his father, Regunatha Pichai, was an electrical engineer at GEC, the British conglomerate.
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Sundar Pichai completed schooling in Jawahar Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and completed the Class XII from Vana Vani school at IIT Madras.
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Sundar Pichai earned his bachelor's degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering and is a distinguished alumnus from that institution.
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Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and ChromeOS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive.
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Sundar Pichai went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps.
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On November 19,2009, Sundar Pichai gave a demonstration of ChromeOS; the Chromebook was released for trial and testing in 2011, and released to the public in 2012.
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On March 13,2013, Sundar Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversaw.
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Sundar Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10,2015, after previously being appointed Product Chief by CEO, Larry Page.
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Sundar Pichai had been suggested as a contender for Microsoft's CEO in 2014, a position that was eventually given to Satya Nadella.
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On December 11,2018, Sundar Pichai was questioned by the United States House Judiciary Committee on a range of Google-related issues such as possible political bias on Google's platforms, the company's alleged plans for a "censored search app" in China, and its privacy practices.
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Sundar Pichai stated that Google users can opt out of having their data collected and that "there are no current plans for a censored search engine" in China.
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Sundar Pichai was one of several of the world's most powerful tech leaders to attend the second inauguration of Donald Trump in 2025.
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Sundar Pichai was included in Times annual list of the 100 most influential people in 2016 and 2020.
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Sundar Pichai was included in the Time 100 AI list in 2024.
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In 2022, Sundar Pichai received the Padma Bhushan in the category of Trade and Industry from the Government of India, the country's third-highest civilian award.
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Sundar Pichai is married to Anjali Sundar Pichai and has two children.