Sundar Pichai On His Family

So are your parents alive? They are and you know, they must be pretty proud of you. You're the CEO of Google and Alphabet. Do they call you all the time with advice or what do they do? You know both, you know, I'm fortunate. I'm very close to them. I see them almost every week. But my dad is, you know, kind of, it shows me amazingly, he is 82. He relentlessly reads everything about, you know, he's trying to keep up. He's not a software engineer by training. But a few years ago, he wanted to know what a API is and he has learned it. So he tracks news closely. And so he just talked to me about it. 82 is young. The President of the United States is 82. Yeah, still young. There you go. And your mother, you talk to her? I am all the time and you know, she is, I got my love of reading from a very young age from her. Due to financial circumstances, you know, she was working as a stenographer. She stopped working to support the family. But, you know, she, she was a voracious reader and that's where I got my love of reading from. And did you meet your wife at Wharton, Stanford or where? Back, you know, we, we both went to IIT, Indian Institute of Technology. She was, you know, at the time there weren't that many women. So she was, she was a pioneer in her own way of breaking through. And so I met my wife in undergraduate. Okay, and so you've now been married how long? Over 25 years. 25 years. And you have two children? Two children, that's right. And do they run around Silicon Valley bragging saying my father is the CEO of Google or they don't do that? Quite the contrary. I think, you know, they're trying to find their own voice. And, you know, we hardly talk about my role or anything in the context of my family.