Google chief executive Sundar Pichai is one of the smartest technologists on the planet, but he earns high marks for communicating extremely complex ideas in very simple terms.
There’s no question Pichai is whip-smart. He received his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from the highly competitive Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). The school admits less than 2% of its 500,000 applicants (compared to Harvard’s 6% admission rate). Pichai also earned advanced degrees from Stanford and Wharton in material sciences, engineering and business. But while Pichai’s world involves big data and highly complex engineering feats, as a leader he stands out as an effective communicator, dissecting complexity in simple words and pictures.
This week Google, an Alphabet Company, introduced a new strategy to control hardware and software in a range of devices tied together with Google Assistant, the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The product launch was streamed live on YouTube. The first 15 minutes of Sundar Pichai’s presentation is a master class in presentation skills.
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