Sundar Pichai Birthday: Interesting Facts About Google CEO That May Surprise You

Sundar Pichai was born in a Tamil family and his mother Lakshmi worked as a stenographer while his father Regunatha Pichai was an electrical engineer.

Sundar Pichai full name is Pichai Sundararajan.

Pichai spent his childhood in a two-room apartment in Ashok Nagar, Chennai.

Pichai received his advanced degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Stanford University and Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. From IIT Kharagpur Sundar Pichai earned a degree in metallurgical engineering.

Addressing the students of IIT Kharagpur where he graduated, he said, “that once he C grade in one paper but he got over that soon enough. "I think I did get C sometimes (when I was at IIT)... My first year CGP was so bad I had to work hard to make up for it for the next three years," he had told young students.

Sundar Pichai is a silver medalist in metallurgical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Pichai's first inspiration was his father and his father’s profession that instilled in him the interest in technology.

Sundar Pichai married his lady love Anjali whom he dated in India. Anjali Pichai is a chemical engineer from Kota, who is currently working as the Business Operation Manager in Intuit, a software company.

According to some reports, Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that he dreamt of being a cricketer and admired the legendary Sunil Gavaskar. Also, a big fan of football and loves Barcelona and their Argentine forward Lionel Messi.

Before joining Google in 2004, Pichai worked at Applied Materials and McKinsey & Company.