Sundar Pichai born Pichai Sundararajan is an Indian-American business executive. He joined Google in 2004 after completing interviews. In 2015, after 11 years, he got the opportunity to serve as CEO of tech giant Google, for which he is best known. In those eleven years, he is said to have received an offer to become Microsoft’s third CEO. But he refused.

Sundar has served on the boards of Magic Leap, CapitalG (formerly Google Capital) and Alphabet Inc.

Born name

Pichai Sundararajan

nickname

Sundar, Rajesh

Sun sign

Krebs

Place of birth

Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Residence

Los Altos Hills, Santa Clara County, California, United States

nationality

training

Until grade 10 Sundar studied in Jawahar Vidyalaya in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.

He completed his remaining higher secondary education Vana Vani School is located on the campus of Indian Institute of Technology Madras also in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur , West Bengal, India.

Based on his academic qualifications and the recommendation of a professor, Sundar received a scholarship to study for a Masters in Science in Material Sciences and Engineering at Stanford University in California, USA.

For a brief stint, he was employed as a product manager and engineer by Applied Materials , a Silicon Valley company.

He then earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania .

A talented student who graduated in the top 5% of his class, Sundar was named a Siebel and Palmer Scholar.

occupation

Business Executive (Chief Executive Officer von Google seit August 2015)

family

• Father – Regunatha Pichai (Electrical Engineer)
• Mutter – Lakshmi (Stenograf)
• Siblings – A younger brother

Manager

Not applicable

Build

Slim

Height

5 feet 10 inches or 178 cm

weight

68 kg or 150 lbs

girlfriend/spouse

1. Anjali Pichai geb. Haryani– Sundar met his future wife while pursuing a college education at IIT Kharagpur. Anjali is from Rajasthan, India and studied Chemical Engineering at Sundars Batch. They became good friends in their early college years and began dating in their final year of undergraduate studies. A short time later, Sundar had to leave India to study in the US and could hardly afford to speak to Anjali once every six months due to the lack of money. Meanwhile, Anjali worked 3 years as a Business Analyst for Accenture and later managed to get a job in US to join Sundar. Once the couple reunited, they married soon after. Together they have a son named Kavya and a daughter named Kiran. Anjali works as a Business Operations Manager at Intuit in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is well known that she is partly responsible for Sundar’s rise to CEO at Google because she stopped him from accepting competing job offers.

race/ethnicity

Asian

He is of South Indian descent.

hair colour

Schwarz

eye color

dark brown

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• Thin and lanky
• Large and prominent front upper teeth
• Mole on left cheek under eye

brand promotion

He promotes all Google related products and services as the company’s CEO.

Religion

His religious beliefs are not confirmed.

But Sundar’s family is connected to Hinduism since he was born into a Tamil Brahmin family.

Known for

• A former product chief, he became the chief executive officer of Google , which is now a subsidiary of a much larger company called Alphabet , led by Larry Page.
• Sundar was behind the launch of Google Chrome in 2008.
• As Product Chief, he was instrumental in the development of popular software products such as Chrome OS, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Maps, Apps and Android.

First TV show

From 2014 to 2015 Sundar was part of 3 TV documentaries namely:

• Click (episode aired June 2014)
• His biography was captured and broadcast in The Android King: Sundar Pichai (2015).
• The presenter during the 2016 Breakthrough Awards ceremony in 2015.

Sundar’s first television appearance in India was broadcast on Star Plus. He was interviewed by Indian film star Shahrukh Khan in January 2018 Ted Speaks India: Nayi Soch – Episode 4. Google’s CEO performed using Beam Pro telepresence technology.

Personal trainer

• Sundar is not a morning person and wakes up no later than 7am. He starts his day reading the Wall Street Journal alongside a breakfast of eggs, toast and tea.
• He is primarily vegetarian, with the addition of dairy products and eggs.
• Working in a bare, minimalist and extremely clean office, he loves pacing while thinking.
• Whenever Sundar needs to worry, he goes for a walk.
• When he has time, Sundar takes time out to exercise or hit the gym later in the evening.

Sundar Pichai favorite things

• Food – quartz circle
• Sports – cricket, football
• Cricketspieler – Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli
• Footballer – Lionel Messi
• Sports team – FC Barcelona (soccer), Golden State Warriors (basketball)
• Bollywood Actress – Deepika Padukone
• TV show – Game of Thrones
• Film – Star Trek Franchise
• Role Model – NR Narayana Murthy (Infosys Co-Founder)

sundar pichai facts

1. One of Sundar’s childhood dreams was to become a cricketer.
2. His family was not very wealthy. He slept with his younger brother in the living room of a two-room apartment.
3. Sundar’s house did not have a TV during his childhood. When he was 12 years old, his family got a rotary phone for the first time. After a few years they got a refrigerator and his mother didn’t have to cook every day. The life-changing convenience of technology drew him to the field.
4. As a teenager, he developed a unique talent for memorizing every phone number he ever dialed on his dial phone and became a walking phone book for all his relatives.
5. He wrote his first software program to create a chess game.
6. Despite earning a full scholarship to Stanford, his father had to withdraw $1000 from his savings, which was more than his annual salary, to cover the cost of Sundar’s plane tickets and other expenses to enter the United States.
7. He joined Mckinsey & Company in 2002 as a management consultant before joining Google in 2004.
8. Sundar interviewed at Google on April 1, 2004. This was also the day Gmail was launched. He suspected the email service was just another April Fool’s joke by the company.
9. In 2006, Microsoft made Bing the default search engine in Internet Explorer instead of Google. Sundar approached computer manufacturers and persuaded them to pre-install the Google toolbar to keep Google’s popularity among users.
10. He also persuaded Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to create their own browser, which led to the creation of Google Chrome, the most widely used internet browser today.
11. In 2011, Sundar was promoted to the role of vice president of product at Twitter, and in 2014 he is said to be in negotiations to become Microsoft’s third CEO. However, he declined both offers.
12. Sundar was responsible for integrating Android into Google applications when he took over the role of Andy Rubin in 2013.
13. He believes that small companies can achieve much more than large companies and therefore like to form small teams that pursue specific goals in order to optimize the company’s productivity.
14. Google+ is the only social media platform where Sundar Pichai posts regularly.
15. To learn more about Google’s CEO, follow him on Twitter, Instagram and Google+.