Today is the the 22nd Birthday of Google, let's know about the the motivational journey of Mr. Sundar Pichai. Our CEO! :)
In 2008, Pichai was promoted to Vice President of product development. In this position, he started appearing more often at Google presentations and continued rising up the ranks in Google. In 2012, he became the Senior Vice President of Chrome and apps and in 2013 Larry Page made him in-charge of Android as well. After a lot of greatest work done by Sundar Pichai, he was named as the new CEO of Google on 10 August 2015.
Well, when you have B.Tech in metallurgical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and have degrees like MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and M.S. from Stanford University in material sciences and engineering then even Google can offer you a job. But, Sundar Pichai will always be an ideal inspiration because of his journey from being part of a small team to becoming a CEO of Google.
Google offered him a job because of his qualification and the experience he had working in engineering and product management at Applied Materials and in management consulting at McKinsey & Company. Now I am going to give a glimpse on Sundar Pichai’s journey at google which you will find inspiring.
In 2004, he joined Google. Initially, he worked on Google’s search toolbar as a part of a small team. The toolbar gave users of Internet Explorer and Firefox easy access to Google search. He also worked on other Google products like Google Gears and Google Pack and he succeeded in Google’s toolbar. He convinced a number of manufacturers to install the Toolbar on their machines, which would result in Google search being easily accessible on hundreds of millions of desktops worldwide.
The success of Google’s toolbar gave Sundar Pichai the idea that Google should develop its own browser. Thereafter, Pichai played a key role in the ultimate launch of the Google Chrome browser in 2008. Pichai became an internationally known figure following the phenomenal success of the Chrome which eventually became the No. 1 browser in the world. After the Chrome browser became no. 1 browser, his credibility increased in Google. He earned the reputation of being a ‘nice guy’, as he never liked to be in politics.
Glimpse on how Sundar Pichai was offered a job at Google and his journey of becoming CEO of Google.