Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will take home $240 million stock package ($90 million of it tied to Alphabet's performance) on top of a $2 million annual salary in 2020.
The New York-based daily newspaper, Wall Street Journal, misspelled Sundar Pichai's last name and gave rise to a storm of jokes and memes
Google chief Sundar Pichai, who has been elevated as the CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, actually heads 8 companies in all. Grown up in India, Sundar Pichai's contributions to Google are unparalleled. "A Master’s degree from Stanford University, an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a stint as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.," Sundar Pichai's resume reads.
Born on June 10, 1972, in Tamil Nadu's Madurai, Pichai did his schooling in Chennai and earned his degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering. The 47-year-old holds an MS from Stanford University in material sciences and engineering, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
To the surprise of millions of LinkedIn users, the high-profile job of Google CEO Sundar Pichai was up for grabs on Microsoft-owned professional networking platform and some wannabes even applied to become what would be a dream job on Earth.
The BCCI posted an image of Pichai posing with batting great Sachin Tendulkar on its social media pages.
Google faced outrage last year when it was reported that the company may have been looking to get back into the search engine business in China, the world's second largest economy.
Sundar Pichai also stated that India and the US can lead on standardization of privacy frameworks for better safeguards against privacy to ensure free flow of digital trade.
Sundar Pichai has predicted India to play England in the final of 2019 World Cup, but admits that Australia and New Zealand are strong contenders as well.
Google will never sell any personal information of its users to third parties, CEO Sundar Pichai has said, amidst growing global concern over the misuse of personal data by some social media giants.
Google announced a slew of additional privacy and security tools for its users across its products and platforms during its annual I/O.
According to Google CEO Sundar Pichai India offers great potential for Google-owned YouTube's growth, as YouTube Music has been downloaded more than 15 million times in the country.
Donald Trump now addressed Sundar Pichai on Twitter as "President of Google"
Apart from Pichais, the guest list includes UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki-Moon and his wife, former British PM Tony Blair and his wife and several Cricket players from Mumbai Indians.
Sundar Pichai reached Mumbai to celebrate International Women's Day where he was seen spending time with kids that used the newly-launched Google's reading tutor app "Bolo".
Followed by the protest, Sundar Pichai said Google that they would provide more transparency on how to handle concerns and would give better support and care to people who raise the issue.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai went on to answer the question by explaining Congress how Google's search algorithm actually functioned.
"We have no plans to launch in China. We don't have a search product there", said Pichai.
Google's CEO-Sundar Pichai faces grilling from US lawmakers on how the web search giant handled an alarming data breach.
Google had launched a search engine in China in 2006 but pulled the plug in 2010, citing Chinese government efforts to limit free speech and block websites.
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