Sunder Pichai , CEO, Google has expressed warm welcome to the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Sillicon Valley visit. Sunder Pichai is Indian Origin, brought up in Chennai, the 43 year old IIT graduate. Mr. Pichai became CEO of Google in August having started out at the company in 2004 as a semiconductor engineer after gaining a graduate degree from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Meet Sillicon Valley’s Giants
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to sillicon valley has been capturing the internet and enthralling entire Indian Startup sector. This visit is being taken as Prime Minister’s initiative towards ‘Standup India, Startup India’, ‘Digital India’ plans. Modi will be meeting with Google CEO Sunder Pichai, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and his visits to Adobe, and Tesla offices are specially grabbing lots of attention from the Indian startup sector. Satya Nadella of Microsoft, John Chamber of Cisco, Paul Jacobs executive chairman of Qualcomm and Santanu Narayan of Adobe would make presentations on digital technology.
“There is tremendous excitement among Googlers, Indians in US for PM Modi’s visit, It is an honour to welcome PM Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley this weekend. The bond between India and the Silicon Valley is strong. India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies. The products built by Indian graduates from IIT and other institutions have helped revolutionise the world. But it is India that’s now undergoing its own revolution” — Sunder Pichai
Entrepreneurs eye on visit
Indian entrepreneurs are hoping big announcements like policy reforms on startups in India, big investments, packages and entrepreneurial opportunities.