According to an article by CNN, Google CEO Sundar Pichai grew up in a small, poor town in India before moving to the US to attend university.
Pichai recalled the time after his family got their first phone.
"It became a communal thing. People would come to call their kids," Pichai told CNN. "And so for me, it showed the power of what's possible with technology."
Pichai attended Stanford on a full scholarship and received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He later worked at Applied Materials and McKinsey before joining Google in 2004. In 2015, he became the company's CEO.
In recent years, Sundar Pichai clashed with President Trump over his immigration policies and "travel ban."
"It's really important that we don't make it a tech-versus-the-rest-of-the-country issue," Pichai said onstage in January 2018 during a Q&A event in San Francisco organized by MSNBC when asked about immigration by the hosts Kara Swisher and Ari Melber.
He got $281 million total compensation in 2019, making him one of the world's highest-paid executives, Business Insider previously reported.