* An alumnus of Wharton business school, Stanford University and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur* Projects included using the URL bar to search as well as scaling up Google's Chrome browser, which launched in 2008, as a way to attract more queries to Google
* Pichai took over the Android business from that group's founder, Andy Rubin, managing the market-leading smartphone operating system globally * He is also credited with the development of some of the company's most successful cloud-based apps, such as Gmail * In 2014, then-Chief Executive Page put Pichai, one of his key lieutenants, in charge of the internet company's search, maps, Google+, commerce, advertising and infrastructure. The move was done to give Page fewer direct reports and product units to oversee.* Alphabet, Google's parent company, has a long list of other businesses. These include maps and Nest smart thermostats. Since Pichai became CEO, it acquired Fitbit in 2021 and the security company Mandiant in 2022.
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