Google: Sundar Pichai inherits top job with sights set on growth – Management Journal

Pichai is now the Chief Executive Officer of Google, the dominant unit of the new holding Alphabet, a surprisingly fast to the upper echelon of corporate America promotion.

Sundar Pichai will be the chief executive of Google. (Photo: AP)

(Bloomberg) .- One of the most vivid memories of Sundar Pichai of time growing up in Chennai, India, is when he went to collect the results of a blood test for a parent.

It was the early 1980s, and while the family lived in a middle-class neighborhood, had no phone, no car, no television. There was another way to search the results were not withdraw them personally.

Pichai had to take a bus and across town two hours to the hospital and wait in a long queue. As the results were not ready, he returned home empty-handed.

In the United States, “technology is really fast, change is continuous for people and sometimes not internalize” he said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek in 2014. “For me, it happened in those discrete moments “.

From this relatively difficult upbringing (his family ran crowding on a Lambretta moped), Pichai attended the Indian Institute of Technology, won a scholarship to Stanford University, he worked in the select Applied Materials Inc. of the beginnings of Silicon Valley and Google Inc. joined as a product manager working on the toolbar, an important Google services initial window that appeared at the top of Web browsers such as Internet Explorer.

That was 10 years ago. On Monday, Pichai, 43, was elected to fill the position of chief executive officer of Google itself, the dominant unit of the new holding Alphabet Inc., a surprisingly fast to the upper echelon of corporate America promotion.

Now comes the hard part. His new role will be to position Google for the future, which he holds one of the most difficult tasks in any technology, as it is to move the engine profit from the desktop to mobile and combat the rapid growth of Amazon.com Inc. in e-commerce and cloud computing and Facebook Inc. in social networks.

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“The challenge now is to sustain growth revenues and improve profits in the face of slower growth in search, “said Brian Wieser, senior research analyst at Pivotal Research Group LLC . “As 90 percent of the market, being bigger is difficult.”

The promotion announced Monday is the latest related to an Indian executive in technology, while Satya Nadella was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corp. in 2014 and George Kurian was named chief executive officer of the storage company NetApp Inc. in June. Kurian’s twin brother, Thomas Kurian, is president of product development at Oracle Corp., while Shantanu Narayen is chief executive officer of Adobe Systems Inc.

The advance of Pichai says a lot about the new world globalized, on the spread of technology to improve productivity and how Larry Page sees the future of the company he co-founded. The new structure allows Page and cofounder Sergey Brin, focus on ambitious projects as technologies to save lives in Calico and dissemination of Internet devices in the Google X division.