Sundar Pichai: The Great Googler

The rise of Sundar Pichai and the position that he enjoys today has come from years of hard work. Born in a modest family in the town of Madurai, Pichai was always quick with numbers. When the time for college arrived, he travelled across half the country to join IIT Kharagpur.

As the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai is undoubtedly one of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley. In the history of technological development, his name will be forever etched as the man who changed the history of the internet browsing by inventing Google Chrome, Google’s first own web browser which is not the most used one across the world. 

The rise of Sundar Pichai and the position that he enjoys today has come from years of hard work. Born in a modest family in the town of Madurai, Pichai was always quick with numbers. When the time for college arrived, he travelled across half the country to join IIT Kharagpur. Not the one to rest on his laurels too long, Pichai followed upon his graduation with an MBA scholarship at the prestigious Wharton Business School at University of Pennsylvania.

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Eventually, in 2004, he joined Google and started working on Google's search toolbar. This was the start of a long and revolutionary association with the company. The Google toolbar became the saviour in 2006 when Microsoft chose Bing as its default search engine instead of Google. Pichai was the one to convince the computer manufacturers to preinstall the Toolbar on their hardware to mitigate the effect of this change.

He then went on to convince, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were heading Google’s parent company Alphabet INC, that Google needed its own exclusive web browser. This was the idea that would make the use of google search engine limitless. Within a few months, Google chrome clinched the Top position in Web browsers list.

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In 2013 when Android CEO Andy Rubin resigned, Sundar Pichai was brought on to do what he does best, revolutionize it. Another landmark in Pichai's rise was his instrumental involvement in helping put together Google's $3.2 billion Nest acquisition in 2014. Finally, in 2015 he was chosen as the top boss. 

Through his years at the company, he has seen many tempting offers from other mega tech companies like Twitter and Microsoft, but Sundar Pichai has remained a loyal Googler.
 

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