India-born Sundar Pichai was named CEO of Google on Tuesday by the company's founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin. Sundar is the second person of Indian origin to head a major IT company after Hyderabad born Satya Nadella who became CEO of software giant Microsoft in February 2014, succeeding Steve Ballmer.
Now an interesting news was popped about Sundar. Sundar competed with Satya Nadella for the Micrisift CEO post. When news of Microsoft's long-term CEO Steve Ballmer stepping down started doing the rounds Sundar Pichai name also came to picture for the post.
Pichai was Google Android's head then. While there were no concrete reports of Microsoft negotiating with Pichai, the rumours began to gain momentum.Putting end to speculations on 4 February, 2014 Microsoft announced Nadella as the company's CEO.
However Satya congratulated Sundar through his twitter handle
''Congrats @sundarpichai well deserved!''
- Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) August 10, 2015
@satyanadella thanks for the wishes:)
- sundarpichai (@sundarpichai) August 11, 2015
Now an interesting news was popped about Sundar. Sundar competed with Satya Nadella for the Micrisift CEO post. When news of Microsoft's long-term CEO Steve Ballmer stepping down started doing the rounds Sundar Pichai name also came to picture for the post.
Pichai was Google Android's head then. While there were no concrete reports of Microsoft negotiating with Pichai, the rumours began to gain momentum.Putting end to speculations on 4 February, 2014 Microsoft announced Nadella as the company's CEO.
However Satya congratulated Sundar through his twitter handle
''Congrats @sundarpichai well deserved!''
- Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) August 10, 2015
@satyanadella thanks for the wishes:)
- sundarpichai (@sundarpichai) August 11, 2015