‘What hasn’t changed…': Sundar Pichai reflects on his 20 year journey at Google

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2 min read 27 Apr 2024, 12:25 PM IST

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai reflects connected his 20-year travel with Google, highlighting the changes since helium joined successful 2004, but inactive expressing thrill for moving astatine the company.

Google and Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai speaks astatine Stanford University connected April 03, 2024 successful Stanford, California. Pichai spoke astatine Stanford�s archetypal Business, Government, and Society Forum, which besides had connected the talker database Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) (Getty Images via AFP)

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai reflected connected his 20-year travel astatine Google connected Friday, saying that portion a batch has changed since helium joined the institution arsenic a merchandise manager successful 2004, helium inactive gets the aforesaid thrill from moving astatine the Mountain View, California-based company.

Sharing his acquisition successful a station connected Instagram, Pichai wrote, “April 26, 2004 was my archetypal time astatine Google. A batch has changed since past - technology, the fig of radical who usage our products … my hair. What hasn’t changed - the thrill I get from moving astatine this astonishing company. 20 years in, I’m inactive feeling lucky."

Sundar Pichai's travel astatine Google:

As mentioned earlier, 31-year-old Sundar Pichai joined Google successful 2004 arsenic a merchandise manager. In the years that followed, the Indian-born enforcement was progressive successful a fig of cardinal projects for the company, including the improvement of Google Chrome, Android, Google+, Maps, Search and Ads. He rapidly roseate to go a adjacent confidant of Google co-founder and past CEO Larry Page, and his endowment was rewarded with the presumption of Google CEO successful 2015

In a memo announcing Sundar Pichai's promotion astatine the time, Larry Page wrote, "Sundar has a tremendous quality to spot what's up and mobilize teams astir the ace important stuff. We precise overmuch spot eye-to-eye erstwhile it comes to product, which makes him the cleanable acceptable for this role

Later on, Alphabet CEO Larry Page and President Sergey Bin announced that they are stepping distant from the institution and Pichai was formally announced arsenic the CEO of Alphabet. In a missive announcing his promotion, Sergey and Brin wrote that “Alphabet and Google nary longer request 2 CEOs and a President."

“He (Sundar Pichai) volition beryllium the enforcement liable and accountable for starring Google, and managing Alphabet’s concern successful our portfolio of Other Bets" the duo added.

Sundar Pichai seems to beryllium good compensated for his relation arsenic Alphabet and Google CEO earning astir $226 cardinal successful the twelvemonth 2022, according to a regulatory filing from past year.

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Published: 27 Apr 2024, 12:19 PM IST