1. About Sundar Pichai : Pichai Sundararajan is an Indian-born American business executive who has been the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc, and its subsidiary Google. At an early age, he showed more interest in technology and has an extraordinary memory, specifically in telephone numbers.
2. Quotes: “Wear Your Failures as a badge of honour”
3. Net worth : nearly $1.5 billion
4. Sundar Pichai also known as : Highest-paid CEO in the IT industry
5. Before Google : In 2002, he was a management consultant, at McKinsey & Company
6. Joined Google on : April Fool’s Day in 2004, on that same day Gmail was introduced to the world
7. Current Position : CEO, Google, and Alphabet
8. CEO of Google in : 2015
9. CEO of Alphabet in : 2019
10. Currently living in : San Francisco, California, United States
11. Born on : June 10, 1972
12. Born Place : Madurai, India
13. Nationality : Indian born American
14. Schooling : Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, a CBSE in Ashok Nagar, Chennai
15. Education : Metallurgical engineering at IIT Kharagpur, then for higher studies he flew to the United States, then he got a scholarship to study at Standford University. In 1997, he dropped his Ph.D. and joined Applied materials, a semiconductor maker in Silicon Valley, as an Engineer and Product Manager. Then he pursued his MBA at the Wharton School.
16. Hobbies : Reading, playing chess, sketching, and watching Bollywood movies.
17. Interests : Science, quizzes, and puzzles
18. Big fan of : Soccer games and he likes Lionel Messi, Barcelona FC
19. His younger age dream : Professional cricket player
20. Father’s name : Regunatha Pichai was an electrical engineer at GEC
22. Mother’s Name : Lakshmi, was a stenographer
23. Wife : Anjali Pichai, was a chemical engineer and works as a business operation manager at Intuit
24. Two Children : Kiran and Kavya, (Sundar Pichai’s son and daughter)
25. His Dog : Jeffree—a cute pet dog
26. Awards : In 2019, he won the Global leadership award and in 2022, he received, the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India.
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