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Here we discuss about Sundar Pichai's early life, his contribution to Google

Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai
Pichai Sundararajan (born June 10, 1972), also known as Sundar Pichai , is an Indian American business executive, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google LLC. Pichai began his career as a materials engineer and joined Google as a management executive in 2004. He rose to become the company's Product Chief, then Google's CEO in 2015, as part of the restructuring process that made Alphabet Inc. into Google's parent company. In December 2019 he additionally became CEO of Alphabet Inc.

Early life and education


Pichai was born in MaduraiTamil Nadu, India. His mother Lakshmi was a stenographer and his father, Regunatha Pichai was an electrical engineer at GEC, the British conglomerate. His father also had a manufacturing plant that produced electrical components. Pichai grew up in a two-room apartment in Ashok NagarChennai.


Pichai completed schooling in Jawahar Vidyalaya, a Central Board of Secondary Education school in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and completed the Class XII from Vana Vani school in the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He earned his degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering and is a distinguished alumnus from that institution. He holds an M.S. from Stanford University in material sciences and engineering, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar, respectively.


What are the great contributions that Sundar Pichai made for 

Google Inc.?


In early 2000, Google wasn’t an 800-pound gorilla in the tech industry as it is now. Eric Schmidt who was the CEO of Google at that time opposed the development of Google’s own browser for six years. He termed that Google could easily lose the bruising browser war since they are a small company at that time.

Sundar Pichai and his team built a cool web browser demo which managed to convince Eric to a create web browser product which evolved into Google Chrome which eventually managed to capture 55% of the market share as of December 2017.

To give you the intensity of the Google Chrome’s success, it is similar to some emerging tech company replacing Google Search with their own search product in the next 3 years. Because Microsoft was so dominant in the web browser market. Unless Google Chrome wasn’t a killer product, it wouldn’t have been successful.


In early 2000, Microsoft was literally controlling the 100% market share of the web browser market through the inbuilt Internet Explorer at Windows operating system. If Google didn’t build their own web browser and managed to capture a reasonable chunk of the web browser market, Microsoft’s Bing search engine would have become a successful product through its tight integration at the Internet Explorer. It could have been a death blow to Google which was slowly growing through its search engine product at that time.


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