Tiger sniff: Not long ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin officially announced that they will resign from Google ’s parent company. Alphabet’s CEO and president positions remain on the board of directors only as major shareholders. All these positions will be transferred to Sanda Pichai. At this critical point in time, we recommend an old article that reviews the career development of an Indian-born executive named Sanda Pichai.

This article comes from WeChat public account: Wei Xi refers to the North (ID: weixizhibei) , author: Wei Xi, from the east title FIG IC


A young man who is absolutely outstanding

Many stories will tell how the protagonist is poor and difficult and finally succeeded in counterattack, or the protagonist has a protagonist aura, contains a golden key, and has an extremely advantageous environment for growth. Nothing strange, no legend, as today’s protagonist Sanda Pichai is.

Pichai was born in 1972 in Chennai, India A not-rich family with a father as an electrical engineer and a mother as a stenographer. Phi guessWhen they were born, the parents would not have thought that their children would one day become the CEO of the planet’s most powerful technology company. Their house was not large. When he was young, he and his brother could only sleep in the living room.

22-year-old Pichai in Stanford Dormitory

The Indian Institute of Technology, Stanford Masters, Wharton MBA, McKinsey & Company -these labels are extremely good for anyone,This also shows that Pichai is an absolute leader among young people, but Pichai, who was born in engineering, does not want to follow a traditional elite path. He has a grander dream.

So on April 1, 2004, (Yes, it was April Fool’s Day and the day Gmail was born) joined Google At that time, Google was already on the market, and its business was becoming stable. How can the science and technology man from McKinsey open up the situation?


Second, from toolbar to Chrome: center the edges

Pichai has joined Google as a product manager and is responsible for the Google Toolbar. This is a browser plug-in that allows users to quickly access Google Search when browsing the web. It can’t be said that this is an insignificant product, but for Google, which is gradually becoming full, the toolbar is definitely not a very important product.

Google’s early toolbar plugin-“google toolbar”

But in this relatively inconspicuous post, Pichai was accumulating strength. He quickly adapted to Google’s engineer culture: An important rule of action is-killing chickens with a bull knife. Therefore, even some relatively ordinary positions have many outstanding geniuses. As a product manager who does not directly write code, Pichai can quickly merge with these geniuses and quickly advance the project. During this period, Pichai’s toolbar It played an important role in Google’s battle against Yahoo.

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