Google CEO Sundar Pichai: from the engine room to the top – Heise Newsticker

Sundar Pichai, new strong man at Google, in March at the Mobile World Congress

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The family of Sundar Pichai had no phone until he was twelve years old. Now he carries with 43 years in charge of the Web business of Google, which finances the entire group

Alphabet -. The conversion to Google

Google has long been much more than an Internet search engine. During the reconstruction of the group Google is the part that operates the core business of search engine, YouTube, Android, Maps. The rest: Small units that operate independently and develop techniques for the future of the digital world are – by the home automation through health technology to autonomous cars

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. Sundar Pichai rise of the Google tip seemed only a matter of time. First he got transferred just under two and a half years ago, in charge of the world’s leading smartphone system Android. Last fall, the oversight of almost all online business was added, except for the video platform YouTube.

Google’s money machine

Now is the meteoric rise of 43- Years crowned with the top job at Google. Although it is only a “slightly slimmed down” Google as a Web division under a newly created corporate umbrella, as co-founder Larry Page remarked discreetly. But Page trusts the manager always slowly occurring so Google’s money machine on which the whole empire relies.

Pichai comes from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. In the United States, he came in 1993 with a scholarship to the California elite university Stanford to study semiconductor physics. His parents had to leave their savings converted $ 1,000 for the plane ticket to scrape together. That was more than their annual income, as Pichai the magazine Bloomberg Businessweek said. He grew up in modest circumstances. The first phone was the family, as Sundar was twelve years old. The usual means of transportation was a motor scooter, on which it rose to fourth. Sundar went forward while standing.

success with Chrome

At Google he was a decade ago. His first working day was April 1, 2004 – the day when Google launched its e-mail service, which Pichai held as many other initially for an April Fool’s joke. His first task was to work on the Google search window in browsers such as Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Pichais proposal, Google should develop its own browser, convinced the founder. The success of Chrome was his ticket to the executive offices of the group.

In a long interview with The Verge Pichai told in the spring of his plans, Google services through the use of self-learning computer programs to improve – and to bring billions of new users to the network. “We want to develop products for all,” he said.

Pichais talents were also Google’s rivals. So he should have been addressed according to media reports in 2013 as a candidate for the top job at Microsoft. Most recently, his name was mentioned again and again, when it came to the top job at the short message service Twitter, which must be filled ( Andrej Sokolow, dpa ) / (VBR)