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Google CEO Sundar Pichai just got a big payday.
He received roughly $183 million in company stock, which will vest over the next four years.
According to Bloomberg, this is the highest pay package that Google has ever given to an executive whose equity grants have been reported in filings.
Although Larry Page is still CEO of Google parent company Alphabet, Pichai has the incredibly important job of making sure that the company's core businesses and cash cow stay strong.
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:
Pichai grew up in Chennai, India. His father was as an electrical engineer and his mother a stenographer before having him and his younger brother. The family wasn't wealthy, and the boys slept together in the living room of their two-room apartment.Flickr / RyanSource: Bloomberg
Early on, Pichai had a talent for remembering numbers, which his family realized when he could recall every phone number he had ever dialed on their rotary phone. He will still sometimes show off his memorization skills at meetings, to colleagues' awe.Flickr / Billy Brown
Source: Bloomberg
After becoming interested in computers — the first software program he wrote was a chess game — Pichai studied metallurgical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His success there won him a scholarship to Stanford.Enoch Lau
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Moving to California was a huge leap. "I always loved technology and while growing up I had dreams of Silicon Valley," Pichai said in a recent interview. "I used to read about it, hear stories from my uncle."PROKazuhisa OTSUBO/flickr
Sources: Business Insider, Bloomberg
When he got to America, he couldn't believe how expensive everything was — a backpack for $60! He also missed his girlfriend, Anjali. The two eventually got married and have a son and daughter.Steve Jennings
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