Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet used to have a hard life

 


Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is the figure behind the success of Google who is now 23 years old. Who would have thought that his life was difficult?

Pichai wasn't born into a rich family, he wasn't even born in America. Not like Bill Gates whose father was a successful lawyer, or Mark Zuckerberg whose father was a dentist and mother a psychiatrist.


Pichai was born in Madras, India on June 10, 1972. His father is an engineer and his mother a stenographer. Their house is just a simple apartment with 2 rooms, Sundar sleeps in the living room.



"We slept in the living room, I always kept a bottle of water beside my bed," he said.


The key to Sundar Pichai's success is willing to learn, keep trying and read a lot. In an interview with the New York Times, Pichai said that since childhood he was very fond of reading.


"I read anything that can be read. Like a story book by Dickens, until you read a book with it you will never feel lacking anything," he explained.







It's said that he was immediately successful, but in fact he wasn't, his life was full of struggles. Pichai studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur. He Pichai graduated from college with a C for his thesis. But he pursued his dream and ventured to the United States and worked at McKinsey and joined Google in 2004.


During college, Pichai met Anjali, who studied chemical engineering, who later became his wife. This couple has 2 children. However, at the beginning of Pichai's career, he had parted with Anjali for a long time because he could not immediately come to America due to limited funds.


Only then did Pichai shine on Google. He had success with the Chrome project. Pichai and his team were instrumental in creating Chrome and making Chrome the most used browser in the world.


Sundar Pichai also successfully developed Chrome OS, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Drive. In 2013, Pichai replaced Andy Rubin, who became CEO of Microsoft, to develop Android.


This success gave Pichai more responsibility. Pichai's leadership abilities and working style are unquestionable which is why he was given such an important position at Google.


Slowly, Pichai won the trust of the two founders of Google, namely Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They praised Pichai as the person who best understood Page to carry out the company's vision. They say Sundar has humility and a high desire to understand technology. Pichai worked at Google for 15 years.


Page said that Pichai is the most reliable person and there is no one better than him to lead Google and Alphabet in the future. In 2013 Pichai became CEO of Google and then in 2019 he also became CEO of Alphabet.


When elected as the successor to Page and Brin, Pichai wrote a letter that he would not change the pattern of business that already existed. Pichai said the leadership transition would no longer affect Alphabet's structure or the work it had previously done.


"I'm going to focus on Google and what we're doing is building a Google that works for everyone," he explained.


Page and Brin's choice is not wrong, Sundar Pichai is now bringing Google into a world-class technology company that is increasingly influential. Who would have thought that a boy who lived simply in Madras became the head of an international company.

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