Instant Alert: The meteoric rise of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in photos

MANAGE SUBSCRIPTIONS   |   UNSUBSCRIBE   |   VIEW ONLINE   The meteoric rise of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in photos by Avery Hartmans on Jan 23, 2017, 11:50 AM Advertisement More than a year ago, Sundar Pichai took the helm at Google. While Larry Page is still CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, Pichai has the incredibly important job of making sure that the company's core businesses and cash cow stay strong. So who is Pichai and how did he scale the ranks to get one of the most important jobs at one of the most important companies in the world? Here's his story. Jillian D'Onfro contributed to an earlier version of this article. SEE ALSO: The fascinating life of Google founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page Pichai, whose full name is actually Pichai Sundararajan, grew up in Chennai, India. His father was as an electrical engineer and his mother a stenographer before having him and his younger brother. The family wasn't wealthy, and the boys slept together in the living room of their two-room apartment. Source: Bloomberg, Inc. Early on, Pichai had a talent for remembering numbers, which his family realized when he could recall every phone number he had ever dialed on their rotary phone. He will still sometimes show off his memorization skills at meetings, to colleagues' awe. Source: Bloomberg After becoming interested in computers — the first software program he wrote was a chess game — Pichai studied metallurgical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His success there won him a scholarship to Stanford. Source: YouTube See the rest of the story at Business Insider   Share the latest business news with your network:    Email sent to:   |   Manage your email preferences   |   Unsubscribe Terms of Service   |   Privacy Policy Business Insider. 150 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011