Sundar Pichai joined Google in 2004 to work on Google's search toolbar, where he led the product management. He soon got involved with various Google search products including Firefox, Desktop Search, Gadgets.The day Pichai joined google, Gmail was also introduced to the world.
His innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. ... He was a director of Jive Software from April 2011 to July 30, 2013.
In 2008, Pichai was motivated to push the idea of Google having its own web browser and that's how Chrome was born. He led the launch of Chrome and it went on to become the best web browser in the world, surpassing both Internet Explorer & Firefox. At the time of Chrome's announcement, Google made a 40-page comic explaining how Chrome worked.
Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser.It was released for Microsoft Windows built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. It was later ported to Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android where it is the default browser built into the OS.
Under Pichai's direction, Chrome became more than just a browser. ChromeOS was launched for Chromebooks and Chromecast was introduced as a way to connect phones to TVs. As per Fortune, Pichai pushed the company to enter the browser wars.
Chrome OS is a Gentoo Linux-based operating system designed by Google. It is derived from the free software Chromium OS and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface.
In 2010, Pichai announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM. In 2011, Pichai was considered to head product development at Twitter, but he decided to stay with Google.
VP8 is an open and royalty-free video compression format created by On2 Technologies as a successor to VP7 and owned by Google from 2010.
After taking over management of Android from the group's founder, Andy Rubin in 2013, one of the major efforts he spearheaded was Android One. It was the company's push to make low-cost smartphones for 'the next 5 billion' people coming online. The Android division worked separately under Rubin but Pichai brought it under Google again.
Since his appointment as a CEO in 2015 for Google, as per reports, in 2019, Alphabet's revenue was up by 80% .Alphabet's share prices have also soared up to 126% in 2020 since 2015, according to Yahoo finance. In 2019, Sundar Pichai's CEO approval rating was 94% according to a Top CEO index report.
It's been nearly five years since Sundar Pichai took the reins as CEO of Google. ... By realizing that a decidedly unsexy yet strategically critical aspect of Google's search business was vulnerable and turning it into the key driver behind some of the tech giant's most influential products.
In 2020, Sundar Pichai announced Google for India Digitization Fund with an effort to boost technological future of India and its digital economy. Google has planned to invest 75,000 crores (approx $10 billion) into India over the next 5-7 years.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a $10 billion investment in India on Monday at the Google for India virtual live-stream event. ... “Today, I'm excited to announce the Google for India Digitization Fund. Through this effort, we will invest ₹75,000 crores, or approximately $10 billion, into India over the next 5-7 years."
