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Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Alphabet Industry: Technology / Internet

The boy who grew up in Chennai without a telephone now runs the company that answers the world’ s questions. Sundar Pichai has steered Alphabet through an AI insurgency aimed at search itself and emerged with Gemini woven through every product and the antitrust storm weathered. His style confounds Silicon Valley’ s taste for showmen, yet the record reads like aggression, seven products with more than two billion users each and a silicon programme that made Google its own chipmaker. He now owns the most consequential product decisions on the internet. businesschief. com 79