After much speculation, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has finally revealed the name of the school he attended in Chennai.
In a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he was asked about the school he attended. He was also shown a list of schools that appeared on his Wikipedia page after he was appointed as the CEO of Alphabet Inc.
About 350 educational institutions had claimed pichai To be his own after his appointment. But he clarified that only two of the names mentioned were correct.
Pichai said that he completed his schooling in Vana Vani, Chennai. The school is located inside the campus of IIT Madras.
He also clarified that the rumors of him being homeschooled are false.
For his higher education, Pichai attended the prestigious IIT Kharagpur and did his BTech in Metallurgical Engineering. He then went to Stanford University to pursue his MS and did his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania.
He was part of the team that launched the Chrome browser in 2008. He was responsible for Google Drive, Chrome OS and others at Google.
Before joining Google, Pichai worked as an engineer at manufacturer Applied Materials, followed by management consulting at McKinsey & Company.