Google fans woke up to a surprise restructuring on

11th August,2015. One that the search-focused

Google will now be a subsidiary of a new parent
company called Alphabet Inc headed by the CEO of
Google Larry Page. As part of the deal, Google's
iconic cofounders Page
and Sergey Brin
stepped out of
their roles within
Google,
appointing
Sundar Pichai
CEO.

BUT WHO IS
HE?
Born Pichai
Sundararajan
12 July 1972
(age 43)
Madras (now Chennai),
Tamil Nadu, India
Citizenship United States
Education B.Tech., M.S., M.B.A.
Graduation IIT Kharagpur
Stanford University
Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania

Sundar Pichai was born in Chennai and his family

of four (Pichai, his mother, his father and younger
brother) lived in a two-room apartment. Pichai was

the captain of his

school cricket team
and under him, the
crew won several
competitions in the
region.

Growing up, Pichai

had
neither
a
television nor did his
family own a car.
They would either
all hop on to their
blue Lambretta scooter or use public transport.
For Pichai, the wonders of technology were
revealed to him when the family bought their first
telephone. Pichai was just 12 years old and the
rotary helped him realise his talent for numerical
recall. He could
remember every
number he dialled,
but did not know at
the time, how useful
this skill would be in
the future.
He
studied
metallurgical
engineering at IIT
Kharagpur and was
described by his
teachers as "the brightest of his batch". He
eventually earned himself a scholarship at
Stanford.

With this reorganization of Google/Alphabet Inc.,

Pichai will control: search, ads, maps, the
Google Play Store, YouTube, and Android.

In February 2014,
Pichai was
rumored to be in
active negotiations
with Microsoft to
become that tech
giant's third CEO.

Now married to his love Anjali, whom he dated in

India before she joined him in the United States,
Pichai is the father of two.
From discovering what technology can do through a
rotary telephone to running the show for Android the most popular mobile OS, Google's newest CEO
has come a long way.
Reference sources:
inc.com
daliyo.in

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