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- Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is one of the world's highest-paid execs, earning $226 million in 2022.
- Pichai has been at Google since 2004, becoming its CEO in 2015 and Alphabet's CEO in 2019.
- In the role, Pichai has reorganized Google's workforce, issued mass layoffs, and emphasized AI.
Sundar Pichai has had a meteoric rise since joining Google as a 31-year-old product manager in 2004.
In the 11 years that followed his first steps on the Googleplex, Pichai was promoted four times, eventually becoming the CEO of Google in 2015.