Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai
Pichai Sundararajan, known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian American business executive...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryIndia
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My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.
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We run Android in a very open way and work closely with all partners. We work with Samsung, and I spend a lot of time with them. But we've always supported other partners.
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There are seven billion people in the world. And I think phones are the first time most people will have access to a modern computing device. With Android, we want to enable that for people.
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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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What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.
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Google is all about information. So the notion of using and presenting information in the right point at the right time to users is what, in essence, describes Google.
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Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.
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The thing which attracted me to Google and to the Internet in general is that it's a great equalizer. I've always been struck by the fact that Google search worked the same, as long as you had access to a computer with connectivity, if you're a rural kid anywhere or a professor at Stanford or Harvard.
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Computing is evolving beyond phones, and people are using it in context across many scenarios, be it in their television, be it in their car, be it something they wear on their wrist or even something much more immersive.
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Custom buttons go to the heart of the personalization we've done. We wanted a scalable way by which each user could customize the toolbar in meaningful way.
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Users are trying to discover apps; we are trying to improve the app discovery process, and developers are trying to reach users. If you step back, it's a problem we solved with search and ads in search.
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I would love for my phone to scream if I am about to miss an important thing in my life and never bother me if I'm doing something very important and the information coming in is less important than what I'm doing.
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We don't expect Google as a first party service to provide all the answers. Part of the reason a platform is successful is because there are very very important things from other companies and other developers on top of the platform.
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It could turn out to be that there is opportunity for us to reach more people, as well as for Webmasters to reach more users. We just want users to define what's meaningful to them.