Super U Podcast | Google CEO Sundar Pichai
Today, You’ll be hearing 7 super tips from the CEO of Google and Alphabet, Sundar Pichai. Sundar serves on Alphabet’s Board of Directors and under his leadership, Google has been focused on developing products and services, powered by the latest advances in AI, that offer help in moments big and small. Sundar’s discusses the power of YouTube, ethics when introducing new technology, the spirit of entrepreneurship, and much more!
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“The more access my family had to technology, the better our lives got. So when I graduated, I knew I wanted to do something to bring technology to as many others as possible. At the time, I thought I could achieve this by building better semiconductors. I mean, what could be more exciting than that? My father spent the equivalent of a year’s salary on my plane ticket to the US so I could attend Stanford. It was my first time ever on a plane. But when I eventually landed in California. Yeah, things weren’t as I had imagined. America was expensive. A phone call back home was more than $2 a minute, and a backpack cost the same as my dad’s monthly salary in India, and for all the talk about the warm California beaches, that water was freezing cold, on top of all that, I missed my family, my friends, and my girlfriend now, my wife back in India, a bright spot for me during this time was computing. For the first time in my life, I could use a computer whenever I wanted to completely blew my mind. And at that same moment, the Internet was literally being built all around me. The year I arrived at Stanford was the same year the browser Mosaic was released, which would popularize the World Wide Web and the Internet. The summer I left was the same summer that a graduate student named Sergey Brin met a prospective engineering student named Larry Page. These two moments would profoundly shape the rest of my life, but at the time, I didn’t know it. It took me a while to realize that the Internet would be the single best way to make technology accessible to more people, and as soon as I did, I changed course and decided to pursue my dreams at Google, inspired by the wonder that first browser created in me, I led the effort to launch one called Chrome in 2009 and drove the effort to help Google develop affordable laptops and phones so that a student growing up in any neighborhood or village in any part of the world could have The same access to information, as all of you had, I stayed the course in graduate school. I’d probably have a PhD today, which would have made my parents really proud, but I might have missed the opportunity to bring the benefits of technology to so many others, and I certainly wouldn’t be standing here speaking to you as Google CEO.
Connect with Sundar Pichai:
Instagram: @sundarpichai
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