Few Facts About Sundar Pichai!

I reckon most of the people doesn’t know Sundar Pichai before he became the CEO of Google.Let me just enrich your knowledge about Sundar Pichai.

Here are Few Facts  about Sundar Pichai:

BORN:-

1. Born in Chennai ,the 43-year-old Google’s boss,real name is Sundararajan Pichai.

CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY :-

2. His father had to save three years to buy the family a new scooter, but made sure Pichai and his brother had the best education and family could afford it at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan. 

3. Sundar Pichai was good at remembering telephone numbers form young age.He could remember every number he dialled .He was also interested in technology from young age.

4. Pichai’s father,Regunatha Pichai worked as an electrical engineer and his mother,Lakshmi Pichai as a stenographer.

5.He got married to his girlfriend, Anjali. They now have 2 children one daughter and a son.

STUDY:-

6. Pichai’s academics is however not related to his job as he studied metallurgical and materials engineering .a silver medallist at IIT-Kharagpur,Pichai went to Standford on a scholarship after his graduation in back 1993.

7. He did Masters in engineering and materials science at Standford University and MBA from the Wharton School Of Business.The cost of living in the US was a shocker for Sundar.

 

8. Sundar was the Captain of his High school Cricket team.

HIS LIFE AT GOOGLE:-

 9. Pichai has been with Google since 2004, when he joined to lead product management for Google Chrome and Chrome OS.He was involved with Google Drive and went on to oversee Gmail and Google Maps.

10. Pichai floated the idea of a new browser .Toady, Chrome is the leading web browser in the world , displacing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer which dominated the market for decades.

11. He was one of the top contenders for the top job at Microsoft which went to Satya Nadella.

HIS HOBBIES:-

12.Besides playing cricket he is a big fan of soccer and chess.

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