Meet Thomas Kurian, a former IIT student and Google employee who dropped out but whose net worth has surpassed that of Sundar Pichai, the IIT graduate's boss and CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet. Sundar Pichai, known as India's highest-paid employee, will be paid a staggering $226 million in 2022 and leads a company valued at $1.17 trillion. Mr. Thomas Kurian, CEO of Cloud, has reportedly managed to accumulate a net worth of over Rs 100 crore. 15,000 billion.
Born in Kerala and an alumnus of St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore, Thomas Kurian, along with his identical twin brother George Kurian, initially studied at IIT Madras before making the important decision to immigrate to the United States. , secured admission to Princeton University.
After earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kurian began his professional career at McKinsey & Company.
After a successful six-year stint at McKinsey, Thomas Kurian moved to Oracle, where he spent 22 years climbing the ranks and eventually leading a team of 35,000 people in 32 countries. did.
When he left Oracle in 2018, there were notable differences of opinion with co-founder Larry Ellison. Following this, Mr. Kurian joined his Google as his CEO.
Thomas Kuran, credited with reviving Google Cloud, implemented strategic changes with a focus on customer service. One of his notable actions was increasing the salaries of Google Cloud sales representatives to motivate them.
In 2018, he took on a leadership role at Google Cloud and led the company to success, amassing a net worth more than that of IIT graduate Sundar Pichai.
