--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Sundar Pichai by Bill Nye: TIME 100 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36b6b4e26e294707/69888fa7f887dc497be95822/time-100-2016-sundar-pichai.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 20, 2016 # Sundar Pichai by Bill Nye  Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the 'Google for India' event in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015\. Google and the Indian government are working to bring high-speed wireless Internet access to 400 of the country's railway stations. Photographer: Udit Kulshrestha/Bloomberg via Getty Images Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the 'Google for India' event in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015\. Google and the Indian government are working to bring high-speed wireless Internet access to 400 of the country's railway stations. Photographer: Udit Kulshrestha/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesUdit Kulshrestha—Bloomberg/Getty Images Sundar Pichai has helped change the world. Last summer he became the CEO of Google. You can look him up, er, I mean, you can Google him. He was the head guy on Google Drive. That’s the original term for “the cloud.” He worked on Google Chrome, Gmail and Android phones. A great many of us can’t tell which side of a street we’re on without checking Google Maps. He was born in Chennai, India, to a middle-class family, and discovered an aptitude for numbers when his family got its first telephone, a rotary, when he was 12. He is an engineer. So is his wife. Engineers use science to solve problems and make things. Engineering applies a combination of logic and intuition to problem solving. It’s a way of thinking that leaves one well suited to run a company. We are all watching for what he produces next. _Nye is a science educator and the author of_ Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/4301266/sundar-pichai-2016-time-100/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/4301266/sundar-pichai-2016-time-100/"},"headline":"Sundar Pichai","datePublished":"2016-04-20T23:53:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:14:04.668Z","description":"The Internet's chief engineer","url":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/4301266/sundar-pichai-2016-time-100/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36b6b4e26e294707/69888fa7f887dc497be95822/time-100-2016-sundar-pichai.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt36b6b4e26e294707/69888fa7f887dc497be95822/time-100-2016-sundar-pichai.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/4301266/sundar-pichai-2016-time-100/","name":"Sundar Pichai"}}]}] ```