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Google’s Cricket-Loving CEO Has Just Become a Billionaire
SILICON VALLEY, USA, JUL 25 – Sundar Pichai became a billionaire through Alphabet's AI-focused growth and stock surge, with shares returning 120% to investors since early 2023, Bloomberg reported.
- Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google in August 2015 and took over as CEO of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, in December 2019.
- His rise followed a background of joining Google in 2004, growing through the company, and shifting its strategy toward artificial intelligence investments.
- Alphabet increased AI spending including a $2.4 billion acquisition and raised 2025 capital expenditures by $10 billion to $85 billion amid strong quarterly results beating analyst expectations.
- Pichai owns a very small percentage of Alphabet, valued at around $440 million, and has sold shares exceeding $650 million over the last ten years, helping his net worth surpass $1.1 billion.
- Pichai’s billionaire status, rare for a non-founder CEO, reflects Alphabet’s strong AI-driven growth and expanding market value exceeding $1 trillion since early 2023.
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Google’s cricket-loving CEO has just become a billionaire
When Sundar Pichai won a scholarship to Stanford University in 1993, his family spent more than his father’s annual salary to buy a plane ticket to California. It has paid off.
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