Sundar Pichai to head Google's parent co, Alphabet Inc: The rise of a soft-spoken engineer from Chennai
FirstpostPichai became the CEO of Alphabet Inc., parent of Google, as founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin steps aside. Perhaps that is why Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped aside to let 47-year-old Pichai take over as the CEO of Alphabet Inc, to helm a $893.33 billion empire. “You can’t run one forum when half of your employee base is sleeping and are in different time zones, and Sundar understands that,” said a Google employee on the condition of anonymity. “He is proud of his Indianess,” said Deep Kalra, Co-Founder and Group CEO of MakeMyTrip, who met Pichai soon after he took over as the Google CEO. “I wrote a letter to him when I left Google,” said Paroma Roy Chowdhury, Senior Director, Public Affairs and Asia Communications of SoftBank Group International.