How the painfully shy 'nerdy' Indian schoolboy rose spectacularly to become the $150million king of Google

Sundar Pichai grew up in a modest two-room home in Chennai, India

His parents didn't have a phone, let alone a computer, until he was 12

Was so devoted to academics many cannot remember him as a youngster

Studious Pichai worked his way up and won a scholarship to Standford

Joined Google in 2004 and was later the man who developed Google Chrome - beginning the quietly spoken Pichai's meteoric rise to the top

Very few people outside of the technology bubble had ever heard of Sundar Pichai until he was suddenly announced as Google's new CEO.


Perhaps that's not surprising: very few people had heard of the quiet and studious Pichai in Chennai, India, where he grew up.

As one former teacher dryly noted, it was only the naughty ones who tended to stand out - and Pichai was anything but.

Yet it seems certain everyone in the southern Indian town will now be speaking of little else than the man now in control of one of the world's most important companies - the hero of his own rags-to-riches story.

Kumar Sankaralingam, who has lived next door to the Pichais for almost 40 years, said: 'He's an amazing person. He is very shy, but opinionated. He has an opinion on everything.

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