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Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google is on the verge of reaching billionaire status. He became the CEO of Google in 2015 and since then the stocks have surged to more than 400 %
Sundar Pichai grew up in Chennai in a two room apartment. His father was an electrical engineer with the British conglomerate GEC. He excelled in school and joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharag[pur to study engineering. He later won a scholarship to Stanford University and his father had to withdraw $1000 from the family savings to cover the cost for Pichai’s airfare and other expenses.
He earned an advanced degree at the Pennsylvania University and joined Google in 2004 as a product manager. He was selected to become CEO by co-founder Larry Page in 2015.He was an early adopter of artificial intelligence.
His near billionaire status is due to Google’s stock surge under his dynamic leadership since 2015.
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