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Sundar Pichai is chief executive of Google and Alphabet and serves on Alphabet’s board. He joined Google in 2004 and helped lead Google Toolbar and Chrome before taking broader responsibility for its products and platforms. He became Google CEO in 2015 and added the Alphabet role in 2019. His leadership spans search, cloud services and AI, including the introduction of Gemini.
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Sundar Pichai is chief executive of Google and Alphabet and serves on Alphabet’s board. He joined Google in 2004 and helped lead Google Toolbar and Chrome before taking broader responsibility for its products and platforms. He became Google CEO in 2015 and added the Alphabet role in 2019. His leadership spans search, cloud services and AI, including the introduction of Gemini.
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- CEO, Google & Alphabet ↗
- Joined Google
- 2004 ↗
- Google CEO since
- 2015 ↗
- Alphabet CEO since
- 2019 ↗
- Coverage
- Search; cloud services; AI ↗
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Selected research, leadership and career milestones, newest first.
Introduces Gemini
Google introduces the Gemini model family, with Pichai describing the company’s AI strategy and Google DeepMind presenting the models’ multimodal design and capabilities.
Source: Google ↗Becomes Alphabet CEO
Larry Page and Sergey Brin announce that Pichai will become Alphabet’s chief executive while continuing to lead Google, consolidating executive responsibility for both organisations.
Source: Google / Alphabet ↗Named Google CEO
Larry Page announces the creation of Alphabet and names Pichai to lead Google, following his expanded responsibility for the company’s internet products and engineering.
Source: Google ↗Adds Android to his responsibilities
Larry Page announces that Pichai will lead Android alongside Chrome and Apps, after Andy Rubin decides to hand over leadership of the mobile platform.
Source: Google ↗Helps introduce Chrome
Pichai and Linus Upson introduce Google Chrome in an official blog post announcing the browser and a forthcoming beta release in more than one hundred countries.
Source: Google ↗Joins Google
Pichai joins Google and subsequently helps lead the development of Google Toolbar and Chrome, before assuming wider product responsibilities and the company’s chief executive role.
Source: Stanford GSB ↗
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