Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai
Pichai Sundararajan, known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian American business executive...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryIndia
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The impact of giving someone a connected smartphone is no different from giving them a real computer. I look at how my kids learn and how different it is from how I learned because the impact of these things is just so huge. Sometimes I think we don't fully internalize what it is to get the power of knowledge in everyone's hand.
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For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.
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Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint.
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You're going to have 100s of millions of users on Chrome, spanning mobile, tablets, and desktops. That is one unfragmented base. That uniformity is probably better than most of the issues across browsers.
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When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.
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When Larry and Sergey founded Google Search, one of the things that struck me is that it was available for everyone to use. We deeply desire our services to work for everyone. And that inherently means we have to work with partners. That is the thesis underlying everything we do.
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There are different usage patterns - I never do email during the day. I don't multitask well at all. I don't know how to be in a meeting and participate and be on email at the same time. I do see some people do it more effectively. I've never quite figured that out.
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If I'm about to forget my kid's birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it.
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Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from people like me.
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We need to bring Android and Chrome to every screen that matters for users, which is why we focused on phone, wearables, car, television, laptops, and even your workplace.
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Android is one of the most open systems I've ever seen. What makes Android great is it's literally designed from the ground up to be customised in a very powerful way.
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Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.
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There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. By no means do I think I'm the most powerful person.
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If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users.