| Sundar Pichai is the CEO of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google LLC, being the highest-paid executive at Google. |
| He was a skilled cricket player and a natural leader, serving as his high school cricket team's captain. |
| Pichai graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1993 with a degree in Metallurgy. |
| He earned a scholarship to Stanford University, where he pursued studies in materials science and semiconductor physics. |
| Despite financial challenges, his father managed to raise $1000 from family savings to support Pichai's studies abroad. |
| While at Wharton School in 2004, Pichai was recognized as a Siebel Scholar and Palmer Scholar for his exceptional talent. |
| Before joining Google, Pichai worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, specializing in metallurgy. |
| Pichai joined Google on April 1, 2004, the same day Gmail was launched. |
| His wife, Anjali Pichai, was his classmate at IIT Kharagpur, fostering a strong bond. |
| Satya Nadella was chosen as Microsoft's CEO, allowing Pichai to remain at Google. |
| To retain Pichai in 2011, Google offered him $50 million in stocks after he considered joining Twitter. |
| Pichai proposed the idea for Google Chrome, now the world's most popular web browser. |
| He is Google's first non-white CEO, succeeding Larry Page and Eric Schmidt. |
| Pichai is credited with transforming the Android team to be more open and collaborative. |
| During the 2015 Chennai floods, Pichai's grandmother was trapped for four days before being rescued. |
| An ardent FC Barcelona fan, Pichai never misses watching the club's games. |
| In December 2019, Pichai replaced Larry Page as CEO of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company. |
| He received a $240 million package in performance-based stock awards, one of the largest in tech's history. |
| Pichai shared that his father sacrificed a year's salary to buy him a plane ticket to the U.S. for his Stanford education. |
| In May 2023, Pichai sold his childhood home in Chennai to Tamil actor C. Manikandan, a nostalgic moment for his family. |
