Sundar Pichai

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Pichai Sundararajan (born June 10, 1972 in Madurai , Tamil Nadu , India ) is an American manager of Indian origin . He is the CEO of Google LLC and its holding company Alphabet Inc.

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Pichai was born in 1972 in the southern Indian city of Madurai . He grew up in poor conditions.

Sundar Pichai earned a bachelor's degree in metallurgy from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur , a master's degree in materials science from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been with Google since 2004, where he was initially responsible for the software products Google Chrome , Google Chrome OS and Google Drive . He later led the development of various products such as Gmail and Google Maps .

On November 19, 2009, Pichai presented the Chrome OS operating system . On May 20, 2010, he presented the open source video codec VP8 and the WebM video format , which were developed by Google. Since March 13, 2013, he has also been in charge of Android development. Andy Rubin previously assumed this position . On October 24, 2014, Larry Page named him Google's new chief product officer. On March 2, 2015, he presented the mobile payment platform Android Pay at the GSMA Mobile World Congress .

As part of the restructuring of Google into the Alphabet Inc. holding company , Pichai became CEO of the subsidiary Google Inc. in 2015. The US website 'The Famous People' estimates Sundar Pichai's assets at around 1.2 billion US dollars (as of 2017).

In August 2017, Pichai fired the software developer James Damore from Google, who had written a controversial internal paper on gender and diversity policy and the company's discussion culture (see Google's Ideological Echo Chamber ). The case caused a stir and the decision to dismiss, as well as the subsequent reporting with the accusation of “ sexism ” was criticized by the German journalist Jochen Bittner , among others , for the fact that addressing different interests of men and women was not sexism and that scientific facts were apparently “neither for the Google boss many journalists who reported on the allegedly scandalous memo Damores “would be of interest.

In 2018, more than 350,000 shares valued at approximately $ 380 million were transferred to Pichai for a special bonus agreed in 2014.

On December 3, 2019, the Google founders gave Sergey Brin and Larry Page announced that it is the operating business of the alphabet Inc. retire. Pichai has been given overall responsibility for Google LLC and its parent company Alphabet Inc.

Pichai is married with a daughter and a son.

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  1. ↑ Alphabet CEO Larry Page appoints Sundar Pichai as new CEO of Google Inc.
  2. ↑ Miguel Helft: The Incredibly Fast Rise of Sundar Pichai . In: Fortune . October 27, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Christof Leisinger, New York: Larry Page resigns from Alphabet, Sundar Pichai takes over | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on December 3, 2019]).
  4. ^ Matthias Kremp: Head of Google and Alphabet: This is Sundar Pichai. In: Spiegel Online . December 4, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Chennai's Sundar Pichai is dark horse . In: indiatimes.com .
  6. ^ The rise and rise of Sundar Pichai . In: The Hindu . ( thehindu.com [accessed August 22, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Meet Google's new Android chief Sundar Pichai . March 13, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  8. ^ Sundar Pichai: The man Google, Twitter fought for . March 13, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
  9. ↑ Google Open Sourcing VP8 as Part of WebM Project - Online Video News . Gigaom.com. May 19, 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  10. ↑ Google Replaces Android Boss Andy Rubin With Chrome's Sundar Pichai . March 13, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  11. ↑ Google CEO Larry Page appoints Sundar Pichai as Google's new Product Chief . October 26, 2014. Retrieved March 13, 2015.
  12. ↑ Android Pay: Sundar Pichai announces new payment platform . March 2, 2015. Accessed March 13, 2015.
  13. ↑ Sundar Pichai Biography . The Famous People. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
  14. ↑ Google: Employees fired according to a sexist "manifesto" . ( handelsblatt.com [accessed on August 22, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Quillette Magazine, A platform for free thought: The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond. In: Quillette. August 7, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Jochen Bittner: Sexism allegations: Even infants without social background have gender-specific interests . In: The time . August 17, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed August 22, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Google Chef receives 380 million bonus n-tv.de, on April 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Pichai, Sundar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sundararajan, Pichai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American manager and CEO of Google LLC of Indian origin
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Madurai , Tamil Nadu , India