Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai

Board Member & CEO of Google at Alphabet
Company Tenure: 6 years
Education:
Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi (B.Tech.) Stanford University (M.S.) University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.)
Biography:

Sundar Pichai has been the Chief Executive Officer of Alphabet since December 2019 and of Google since October 2015. Since joining Google in 2004, Sundar has led product and engineering for Google’s products and platforms, including Search, Chrome, Maps, Android, Gmail, and Google Apps (now Google Workspace). Sundar served as Google’s Senior Vice President of Products from October 2014 to October 2015, and as Google’s Senior Vice President of Android, Chrome and Apps from March 2013 to October 2014. As CEO, he has shifted the company’s strategy to focus on AI, which is now powering advances in the company’s founding product, Search, as well as other helpful products for people around the world. Sundar holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, a Master of Science degree from Stanford University, and a Master of Business Administration degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Profile Details

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Republican Support
Democratic Support
$36,600 $56,300

Affiliated Companies

Alphabet

Alphabet

Key Statements

"We have election integrity teams which are looking at it seriously. I think the cybersecurity interference from foreign sources is something which is always a big source of concern."

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"So, for example, on areas which are prone to misinformation, we raise we rank higher what we call authoritative information, including journalistic sources. If it was to do with COVID We would rank public health organizations, medical institutions, journalistic content higher. So we brought the same principles which we use in search to YouTube."

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5 WEEKS BEFORE 2020 ELECTION: "Holding free and safe elections is as foundational to the functioning of a democracy as it gets and as an information company we viewed as one of the most important responsibilities we have. There's a lot more awareness I think the scale of our efforts are significantly larger. We have more than 30 teams across the company working round the clock and coordinating leading up to it. We are partnering with many organizations outside, including news organizations leading up to the election and so on to make sure the information we provide is accurate. When we find evidence of issues we update government agencies, intelligence agencies, we have gotten information back, the other companies are coordinating but I do think it's important. We are all putting in a lot of effort but I think we have to stay vigilant because the stakes are high in a democracy through an election cycle."

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"So recently we rolled out changes to make sure we can certify whether a provider actually provides abortion or not. And we both have mechanisms to verify and then we disclose that and we require disclosure on the advertising side as well."

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