Sunder pichai - a innovative gully boy

Sundar Pichai's mother worked as a stenographer while his father was an electrical engineer. The man behind the success of Android OS had his first tryst with a phone when he was 12 years old. He was very good at remembering telephone numbers from a young age. He could remember every number he dialled !

Some Excellent facts about Sundar Pichai :-

• One of the world’s most powerful persons in the tech world, Sundar Pichai had a humble beginning.
• Born in Chennai, the 43-year-old Google boss' real name is Sundarajan Pichai.
• Hailing from a middle class family, Pichai's family did not own a car or a television during his childhood.
• Sundar Pichai’s mother worked as a stenographer while his father was an electrical engineer.
• The man behind the success of Android OS had his first tryst with a phone when he was 12 years old.
• He was very good at remembering telephone numbers from a young age. He could remember every number he dialled! He was also interested in technology.
• Pichai's academics is however not related to his job as he studied metallurgical and materials engineering. He pursued a course in electronics even when it was not a part of the curriculum. A silver medallist at IIT-Kharagpur, Pichai went to Stanford on a scholarship pursuing his American dream, after his graduation in 1993.
• He did his Masters in engineering and materials science at Stanford University and MBA from the Wharton School of Business.The cost of living in the US was a shocker for the modest Pichai.
• His professors remember him as one of their brightest students. He was always forthcoming to discuss his ideas and new projects with fellow IIT-ians at Kharagpur. He was always keen to innovate and work on new ideas.
• A down-to-earth and unassuming person, students at at IIT-Kharagpur interact with him over Skype at regular intervals.
• Pichai served as the company's senior vice president of products, largely responsible for the creation of Google Drive, the Gmail app and Google video codec. He joined Google in 2004 after a stint at Applied Material and McKinsey.
• Pichai floated the idea of a new browser. The suggestion was not very well received since it was thought that there was no need for another browser. Today, Chrome is the leading web browser in the world, displacing Microsoft's Internet Explorer which dominated the market for decades.
• It is rumoured that Twitter tried to hire Pichai four years ago but Google paid him an exorbitantly higher pay to keep him back at Google.
• He was also one of the top contenders for the top job at Microsoft, which went to Satya Nadella.
• Besides being a soccer and chess lover, he is a big cricket fan. While in school, he was the captain of the cricket team too.
• At Google, he is one of the most popular bosses. He is good at maintaining relationships and managing employees. Sundar Pichai is married to Anjali. They have a daughter and a son.
• Pichai had been Page's right-hand man for some time and is credited with trying to convince WhatsApp founder Jan Koum not to sell to Facebook. He also helped Page convince Nest's Tony Fadell to merge his company with the Google team, among other things.
• Sundar Pichai is a friendly person who cares about others and he’s willing to give advice when asked about his opinion. A friend of his was considering taking a job with Google. He attempted to talk him out of it. Once he learned more about the company, he realized that it was a corporation that offered a chance to advance. He wasn’t trying to be a hypocrite, but he was open minded enough to give it a chance.

“My dad & mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.”— Sundar Pichai

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