Sundar Pichai – The winner of the Google conversion – Frankfurter Rundschau

August 11, 2015

Sundar Pichai is the new boss of Google. Photo: RTR

When it comes to the new Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking media about the return of the “American dream”: The rise from a poor family in the highest levels the economy. The rise Pichais actually something fabulous.

Until he was twelve years old, his family had no telephone. His family of four lived in a two-room apartment in the southern Indian Chennai, when it came into the city, then to fourth on the scooter, there was no car.
30 years later, everything is different, and even notoriously reticent media like the BBC are already talking about the return of the “American dream” of the rise from a poor family in the highest levels of the economy. The exaggeration is easy, as the career of the now 43 years old Sundar Pichai has actually something fabulous.

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The Thin Man are a beard let not so boyish look, is the winner of the Google conversion. While the co-founder of the company, Larry Page, now takes over the management of the umbrella group called “Alphabet”, Pichai is promoted to chief of the core business: Google. Pichai thus contributes in future be responsible for the classic Internet business, with which the Group makes billions.

A reserved person

Google Co-Founder Page overturned in a blog post positively with praise for the new Google-Boss , Pichai ticking just like himself, wrote Page, sometimes it tick better. The man from southern India, who came in 1994 with a scholarship for the Californian elite university Stanford in the United States was extremely technically adept, have an eye out for products and think like an entrepreneur. “This is a rare combination,” said Page two years ago when he made Pichai Chief of Android-Business at Google.

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the memories of the new superstars in the Silicon Valley, then has his talent early on. As more than 30 years ago the first family phone was purchased, he had a short time once all numbers dialed can keep in mind, Pichai said. However, he added at once added: “I was then not sure if that is useful.” Today that is certainly so

Pichai, whose name so far only the community of technology. Fans had known, is described as restrained. He has in the eleven years that he has worked at Google, already celebrated some successes. Pichai had convinced his bosses believe that Google should have their own Internet browser, it says. Thus arose one of the most widely used browser, Chrome.

The magazine “Bloomberg Businessweek” Pichai called the “most powerful man in the world of mobile internet”. That was about a year ago. Now this is in a sense also officially.