Sundar Pichia celebrates his 49th birth anniversary today. Born on June 10, 1972 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, did you know Pichai didn’t have access to basic necessities in his childhood? Here are 5 interesting fact about Google CEO you never heard before.
Sundar Pichia is celebrating his 49th birthday today. Born on June 10, 1972 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Pichai joined Google in the year 2004 as a lead for product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Drive. He became the CEO of the world's largest tech company Google on August 10, 2015. On his birth anniversary, here are five interesting facts about Sundar Pichai that we are sure you didn't know before we told you.
5 Interesting Facts About Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Now the full name of Google CEO is Pichai Sundararajan. Pichai was born in a middle-class family in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. His mother Lakshmi was a stenographer while father was an electrical engineer in the British conglomerate GEC. Pichai grew up all his childhood in a two-room apartment in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.
Do you know, Pichai, now the head of Google, once lacked basic necessities like refrigerators. In a previous interview to the NYT, Pichai said, "We lived in a kind of modest house, shared with tenants. We would sleep on the living room floor. When I was growing up it was dry and We were worried. Even now, I can never sleep without a water bottle by my bed. Other houses had refrigerators, and then we finally got one. That was a big deal."
Sundar Pichai married his college girlfriend nee Vicky. The two met and were classmates at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Pichai likes to play football and cricket. In an interview with NYT, Pichai opened up about his love for these games and said, "I had a lot of time to read. I was also processing a lot. I read whatever I could get my hands on. I read Dickens. Friends, playing cricket in the street, reading books - that was the totality of life. But you never felt lack of anything."
Did you know that Pichai was selected as a contender for the CEO of Microsoft in 2014 which was eventually taken over by Satya Nadella?