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Sundar Pichai's Appointment As Google CEO Was A Long Time Coming

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"Sundar has been saying the things I would have said (and sometimes better!) for quite some time now, and I’ve been tremendously enjoying our work together. He has really stepped up since October of last year, when he took on product and engineering responsibility for our Internet businesses,"
“If there’s anybody that could take over as CEO one day, I would see Sundar as being a great choice for doing that,”
“I would challenge you to find anyone at Google who doesn’t like Sundar or who thinks Sundar is a jerk,”
Sundar With His Parents When They Visited Him In California. Image Source: Bloomberg
Pichai At Stanford in 1994. Image Source: Bloomberg
"My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated,"
“There’s a lot of smart people [at Google], but in terms of the consumer products he’s worked on so far, I doubt they would be as successful without Sundar being ther

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