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- Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company, is now one of the world's highest-paid executives after he was awarded $281 million in total compensation in 2019.
- Pichai, who is also the CEO of Google, became Alphabet's CEO when Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced last December that they were stepping down from their leadership roles at the company.
- Pichai has been at Google since 2004, rising through the ranks to become CEO in 2015, and eventually, leading the entire company.
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Sundar Pichai has had a meteoric rise since joining Google in 2004.
Last December, Google's cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced that Pichai would be taking over as Alphabet CEO, as both Page and Brin stepped down from their leadership roles at the company.
Up until that point, Larry Page was still CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and Pichai had the incredibly important job of making sure that the company's core businesses and cash cow — Search — stayed strong. Now, he's CEO of both Google and Alphabet.
So who is Pichai and how did he scale the ranks to get one of the most important jobs at one of the most important companies in the world?
Here's his story.
Jillian D'Onfro contributed to an earlier version of this article.
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