--- title: "Which of the Sundar Pichai's skill made him as the CEO of Google?" description: "Which of the Sundar Pichai's skill made him as the CEO of Google?" author: "Manish Kumar" published: 2017-12-30 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32249/which-of-the-sundar-pichai-s-skill-made-him-as-the-ceo-of-google category: "miscellaneous" tags: ["google"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # Which of the Sundar Pichai's skill made him as the CEO of Google? Which of the [Sundar Pichai](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32246/how-do-you-justify-sundar-pichai-being-named-as-ceo-of-google)'s [skill](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/62167/which-state-government-sets-up-a-skill-university-with-a-cost-of-850-crores) made him as the [CEO](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84704/who-is-the-new-ceo-of-youtube) of [Google](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12411/google-will-integrate-an-ad-blocker-into-chrome-next-year)? ## Answers ### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani **Just like you, there were so many who got astonished when Google Corporation** surprised the whole world by appointing **Sundar Pichai as the CEO of on 10th August 2015.** **\**![Which of the Sundar Pichai](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/456e383a-2cc6-4aa0-985b-85b8ea2636b1/images/6e8601a6-087a-4584-9f53-e9762827f0e1.png)\ **\****There is not one or two skill that made him Google CEO because his whole journey depicts of what hard work can pay off…!** \ **\****Sundar Pichai full name Pichai Sundararajan was born on July 12, 1972, in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.** He was from a middle-class family **his father Raghunath Pichai worked as an Electrical Engineer in General Electrics** which is located in Chennai.\ ![Which of the Sundar Pichai](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/456e383a-2cc6-4aa0-985b-85b8ea2636b1/images/62f2a145-2945-42ce-b610-1f23217c7add.png)\ \ **His father worked as manager of a factory that made components of Electrical objects.** Sunder once said in an interview that stories work challenges faced by his father always motivated and inspired him when he was a teenager. \ **Education** He completed his **intermediate from Vana Vani School, Chennai and after qualifying for IIT** he graduated from IIT Kharagpur in Metallurgical Engineering which is one of the most prestigious colleges in India.\ ![Which of the Sundar Pichai](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/456e383a-2cc6-4aa0-985b-85b8ea2636b1/images/8d5a81e4-92e8-4228-919c-0149cec4e1a5.png)\ \ **After getting graduated he initially planned to go ahead with his academics and took admission in Ph.D.** from Stanford University but **he dropped out and started working for applied materials as an engineer** and product manager. **At last, he did MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.** \ **His skills which made him Google’s CEO** Google was looking for someone who knows a bit about each and everything every segment of the whole corporation. **A CEO must be an expert in Business Development and along with that,** he must be aware of other aspects of the company **such as Sales, Marketing, Law, Programming, and Law.** \ ![Which of the Sundar Pichai](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/456e383a-2cc6-4aa0-985b-85b8ea2636b1/images/95f3cb42-edd4-42c8-9175-29b35b7fd8f0.png)\ \ **So as Google was looking for an appropriate leader they found these sophisticated skills in our Sundar Pichai** as he was one of the **proficient employees in Google and was involved in all giant projects of google.** Been working for Google Corporation for almost 11 years he contributed a lot to the development of **Google Chrome, Google Maps, Google Drive, Gmail, and Android etc.**\ ![Which of the Sundar Pichai](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/456e383a-2cc6-4aa0-985b-85b8ea2636b1/images/779f4cb4-657a-46d2-be20-a4f198fbc7b6.png)\ \ **Within those 11 years, he build a great bond with Larry Page and the Google Corporation was well aware of his vision which was another reason why he got appointed as Google’s CEO** \ **Few interesting facts about Sundar Pichai** - Sundar Pichai is a great cricket fan and he was even the captain of school cricket team - He joined Google when the company was not even publically announced - He has got really amazing learning skills and he claims that he remembers each and every number which he dialed when he was young - He never miss interacting with students at IIT-Kharagpur over Skype at regular intervals - There were rumors that Twitter tried to approach Sundar Pichai when he was simply working for Google. ## Wear your failure as a badge of honor - Sundar Pichai --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32249/which-of-the-sundar-pichai-s-skill-made-him-as-the-ceo-of-google Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.