Sunder Pichai born in Madurai, 1972, belonged to a lower-middle-class family. He had never experienced the luxury of life. However, Pichai experienced his first technology at the age of 12. This was a landline phone that his father brought home. He had a remarkable skill of remembering numbers.

Likewise, he excelled in school, that paved in his way into metallurgy division of IIT, Kharagpur in India. Then after graduating he migrated to US in 1993. And initially planned to pursue Ph.D. from Stanford and embark on an academic career.

However, he dropped a plan and joined line of materials, a semi-conductor maker as an engineer and a product manager. But he didn’t work there for long. He later went to pursue MBA from Wharton university of Pennsylvania where he was named Siebel scholar and palmer scholar following the completion of MBA. He later joined GOOGLE in 2004. And his entry was marked with a launched with a free mail service called ‘Gmail’. That resulted Sundar’s to be a Google’s pride. The day of launch coincided with 1st April – The April Fool’s Day. Google became the default search engine of Microsoft’s own search engine called ‘Bing’.

Sundar soon started working on various other products such as Google gears and google pack. The success of google toolbar searches gave him an idea of making google own browser. He discussed this idea to the CEO Eric Smith and he denied. As he thought developing a browser would be very expensive affair. However, he convinced the cofounders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, to launch Google’s own browser. The task and the responsibility were given in the hands of Sundar. He made sure to cover all the negative points of the other browsers, the problems users faced while browsing, to develop the fastest browser ever. And in 2008; Google launched their first yet world’s best browser – Google Chrome!

Chrome turned out to become a success far beyond anyone’s imagination. Chrome, defeating all its competitors such as Internet Explorer and Firefox, eventually became the No. 1 browser in the world. Due to such immense success, he became an internationally recognised figure. Later in 2008 Sunder was promoted as the Vice President of Product Development. By 2012, he became the Senior Vice President of chrome and apps. He stepped into the shoes of Andy Rubin as the overseer of all Android related products.

Due to his excellent track record, Sundar attracted a lot of attention of the other technology powerhouses. He was approached by Twitter to come on board as the new CEO of Twitter. Other than that, he was also considered to succeed Steve Ballmer as the CEO at Microsoft! Sundar Pichai was the CEO in waiting for a long time. Mr Larry Page had tremendous faith in his capabilities, his sheer Diplomacy and Entrepreneurial Skills. On 10 August 2015, Sundar Pichai was chosen as CEO of Google!