The whole of Sundar Pichai’s family lived, and he lived in Madras since he was a child. His father worked as an electrical engineer at the company of British Multinational GEC. His father always dreamed that his sons would receive a quality education. Sundar, since childhood, had a very keen interest in technology and always had a very great memory regarding things. He quickly memorized anything with numbers – like numbers too!

He got a degree in B.Tech in the field of Metallurgy and won a silver medal from IIT Kharagpur in the year 1993. He was provided with a scholarship to study materials and engineering from Stanford University in the year 1995. He stayed in the U.S. after that and worked for Applied Materials for a short time. He then transferred to Wharton School (under the University of Pennsylvania) and did an M.B.A. in the year 2002.

Net Worth

The net worth of Sundar Pichai is about $1.3 billion as of February 2022. His net worth fell at a rate of 20% in the same year, according to the source: IIFL Hurun India Rich List 2022. Even after that, he is still one of the wealthiest managers professionally. Pichai is one of the CEO of Alphabet and makes about 242 million dollars each year. He also owns a large part of the aforementioned company.

Career

His career started right when he got his B.Tech degree in the field of metallurgical engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He got a scholarship there to study semiconductor physics and material science at the University of Stanford, which is in the United States.

At the start of his career, he worked as a product manager and an engineer at Applied Materials, which is a company that makes semiconductors in Silicon Valley, the USA.

Sundar Pichai then got an MBA later in the year 2002, where he went to work as a consultant for McKinsey and Company. In the year 2004, he finally joined Google. He then oversaw the product management and was in charge of Google Drive. He made a lot of innovations for numerous Google clients’ software-related products. He also originally made Google Maps, Gmail, and other programs.

Tip: If you missed it, I mentioned a while before that Sundar Pichai net worth is estimated almost US $1310 million (Rs 10,215 crores approx) as of 2022.

Google Chrome

Sundar Pichai’s career convinced both Larry Page and Sergey Brin (who originally started Google) to launch the browser of Google.

Sundar Pichai was a significant person behind the launch of Google’s browser back in the year 2008. Chrome browser then went on to beat other browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox and became the best browser in the whole world. He then became even more famous when the browser became a huge success.

Some Random Facts About Him

Here is a list of some of the facts about Sundar Pichai:

1. He used to excel at the sport of playing cricket back when he was in school. His leadership skills were also evident back then, as he was selected as the caption for his school’s cricket team.

2. Pichai’s wife, Anjali Pichai, was his classmate back when he was at IIT Kharagpur. They had a very strong bonding, and even the years and distance between them could not try and part these future companions.

3. He has also been openly credited with making the Android team even more open. Before he took charge of Android from Andy Rubin, it was believed that Android was only just a rogue unit within Google.

FAQs

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To Wrap It Up!

That was all the information regarding the life, career and success of Sundar Pichai as a person. Thank you for reading up till here. I hope you found the information useful. Let me know in the comments your thoughts on the same.