Sundar Pichai has made another trip to India.
The CEO of Google Sundar Pichai has made another visit to India. This time around, he spent some of his time in India to addressed students at IIT-Kharagpur, was interviewed by publications, spoke at a news conference in New Delhi and more. He even took a trip down memory lane as he recalled his first interview at Google.
Here are 5 things Sundar Pichai said:
1) "I interviewed in Google in April 1, 2004, which is April Fool's Day, and Google had just announced Gmail, and it was invite only, but people still weren't sure if it was an April Fool's joke."
"And I remember doing my interviews through the day, and people kept asking me, 'What do you think of Gmail?', but I hadn't had a chance to use it. I thought it was an April Fool's joke,"
"It was only in the fourth interview when someone asked me, 'Have you seen Gmail?' and I said no then he showed it to me, and then the fifth interview I was finally able to start answering."
"So for the final four interviews I was able to finally tell them what I think of Gmail and how to improve Gmail, and that's my interview experience,"
2) "Last year was a big one for us. We focused sharply on machine learning and artificial intelligence and how we can use it to make our services better. We think of this as an important inflection point. We brought out products like Google Assistant and Google Home. Pixel (Google's smartphone) also has the assistant built in. I view that as a foundation for how we will think about things for the next many years," said Sundar Pichai in an interview with TOI.
3) "We want to always work on ambitious things and by definition, we won't succeed in everything. If we do, we are not being ambitious enough."
4) "If we meet 70% of our objectives, we consider that a success."
"To me, what's more important is, are we continuing to innovate?
5) Are we at the forefront of applying computer science to solve problems for our users, consistent with our mission? I think we do that, and we have to do that in the future too."
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