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Saw My First Computer At IIT: Google CEO Sundar Pichai
05 Jan 2017, 01:35 PM IST
Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai interacts with students at his alma mater IIT Kharagpur in West Bengal.
Here are highlights of some of the things he said:
- Saw my first computer at IIT
- Always wanted to build products
- Always wanted to work on computing, build computing products
- That's what I've been focused on
- Had my share of all experience which all of you go through
- Of course I bunked morning classes
- Staying up late at night
- Best memories are with my wing-mates
- Good memories
- Great foundation we have as a country
- Getting into an elite institution does not guarantee success
- Enjoy what you are doing
- As an engineer, it is important to remember that there are many many ways you can achieve things
- When you try to run something at the scale of Google
- As a leader, a lot of your job is about making sure you have good people
- Remove roadblocks for them
- Also valued teamwork quite a bit
- Setting up collaborative success is something we focus on
- Google is set up in a way
- Even if I sent an email they won't do it
- We have set of rules to go by
- We try hard to build products that work for everyone
- In order to get Google working in India, you need to get it to work in as many languages as possible
- It works even in rural situations, with different dialects and so on
- Need to bring down entry-level smartphone prices to $30 level
- Working on digitising payments
- Indian will be a global player in digital economy
- And will be competitive with any economy in the world
- Lots of competition out there
- I heard people start preparing for IIT as soon as the eighth grade
- It's important to keep your hopes and dreams and try to follow them
- Most of how your life plays up is up to you
- I was made to carry baggages across railway platform by seniors... it's a long platform
- Mathematics is foundational
- Machine learning algorithms is all mathematics
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