The David Rubenstein Show: Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai joined the company in 2004 as a product manager. Since then, he's had a meteoric rise through the ranks before becoming CEO of Google in 2015 and then CEO of parent company Alphabet in 2019. During his tenure, he has focused the company on its cloud computing business - Google Cloud. He has also made deep investments in artificial intelligence, despite being beat to market by Microsoft partner OpenAI in 2022 with the blockbuster ChatGPT product. In an interview for "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations," Pichai dives into his fundamental belief that artificial intelligence is comparable to fire and electricity in its capacity as a new technology to cut across "every sector, everywhere." Pichai also addresses Google's mounting legal woes, as the company faces multiple antitrust suits from the Department of Justice and elsewhere. This interview was recorded September 20 in New York.
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Chapters:
00:01:06 - Joining Google
00:02:16 - Federal Charges against Google
00:04:29 - AI, Gemini
00:08:12 - Alphabet and Google umbrellas
00:11:32 - Next big tech movement - quantum computing
00:12:36 - Early Life in India
00:18:03 - Google employee perks and demands
00:22:39 - Biggest challenge moving forward
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[stephaniehale]

*Google grew almost 6X in market cap since Sundar took over. Once in a lifetime CEO. It's not an easy thing to manage such a large global corporation that provides products for a daily use for billions of people around the globe. Sundar has been the CEO for almost a decade now.*

[emmanuelben]

This man is one of the most humble Big Tech CEO we have

[karlwatson]

I had the honor to meet Mr. Pichai in a luncheon at a JP Morgan Event last summer. Very humble and soft spoken guy. However, when he speaks, people listen because the intelligence he has come across in a very soothing and well structured way. Don't get him talking about his teas though. He sure does love his teas and can talk about teas for an hour lol.

[changemakers]

David made a mistake in facts. he mentioned stock price has doubled after sundar came in as CEO of google. it has 4xed

[Cyber-Touch]

I literally like sunder's way of speaking and explaining about particular aspects in deeper way

[aminbusiness]

The majority of the questions were already publicly available and are of such low information density …

- “ Did you grow up Middle Class Sundar ? 👴 “
- “ Sundar what college did you study at 👴“

- “Sundar did you receive a full-ride scholar ship ? 👴 “

- “ I sampled Google’s food but how do you guys afford the food Sundar ? 👴”

The lack of preparation for this interview is an insult to the viewers time

[dunzerz]

Such simple and mundane questions that have already been answered multiple times by Sundar. This was a missed occasion to ask more pressing and pertinent questions to a challenged CEO. Never quite understood the appeal of David Rubenstein..

[sridhart]

Horrible questions… seems like the interviewer came right out of the bed in the morning with no preparation whatsoever

[vivekra]

He spoke about search engines giving a person in rural Indonesia access to the same information as a Stanford Professor. The information still needed to be unpacked and distilled. Now AI promises to give the rural person almost unlimited free access to a Stanford Professor level assistant.

[carvalhoquibato]

Good interview. David drove it very well as always😊

[StartupArtificialintelligence]

I really enjoy the interview questions. I never seen this of interview any ever

[adarshgmani]

Both guest and host amazing success with humble beginnings ! Truly inspiring!

[georgemuchai]

4:39 Ruben said "Chat GPT" and captioning tool wrote "Chat Chibi CBT". the speech to text has a long way to go and everyday is a milestone.

[dominik]

He definetly dropped the ball with generativ AI

[pratronald]

14:21 He majored in metallurgy... I wonder how much they teach about silicon in that?!

[gaganrohith]

He is such a great speaker! No wonder he’s a great CEO

[Matthew-xbrj]

Sundar admits he favors a private life himself... hopefully he can emphatize with other people regarding privacy😅

[contico]

Thanks David bringing such insight through innovators in the world which impact billions of populations 🎉🙏

[ArturKoziara]

That was such a softball interview, mate. Honestly, one of the least engaging chats I've seen here in a while. It felt more like a pre-roll ad for an online course than a genuine conversation.

[msquarem]

Imagine you become this successful by worldly standards and still dont have the guts to speak against the ongoing atrocities in Palestine and somehow ending up helping the oppresors with your technology.