{"id":2433,"date":"2026-06-28T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:18:00","slug":"ex-google-engineer-says-larry-page-sergey-brin-and-sundar-pichai-share-the-same-trait-its-the-lesson-he-swears-by-as-a-7-2-billion-ai-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2433","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google engineer says Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai share the same trait\u2014it\u2019s the lesson he swears by as a $7.2 billion AI CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0And one of those people was a product manager who had just joined the company. His name was Sundar Pichai.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2431\">AWS CEO says replacing young employees with AI is \u2018one of the dumbest ideas\u2019\u2014and bad for business: \u2018At some point the whole thing explodes on itself\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were together at Google for a long time. I knew him from when he joined as an individual contributor,\u201d Jain exclusively told <em>Fortune<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAt Google, we had people who were brilliant, they came from the best schools, they were highly accomplished, and there were some who grew and shone, and then there were others who didn\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought that I got lucky, that somehow I got placed in this group of amazing people\u2026 And that was why I was trying to learn and observe what makes one succeed?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Pichai ended up being one of those individuals who shone. He became CEO of Google in August 2015, just over a decade after joining the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I learned by observing him was that the same attributes kept coming up\u2014intensity, hard work. But also the ability to think big and have confidence,\u201d Jain revealed. \u201cYou have to think crazy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Sundar Pichai\u2019s Google Chrome success proves that \u2018crazy\u2019 beats hard work alone, the CEO says<\/h2>\n<p>The moment that crystallized it was watching Pichai champion Google Chrome, at a time when the idea looked foolish on paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Browsers were Microsoft\u2019s territory, Netscape had already failed, and few inside Google thought it was worth the effort. Jain included.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like that\u2019s such a bad idea,\u201d he admitted. \u201cI was not thinking big enough.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even Microsoft\u2019s CEO Steve Ballmer once publicly dismissed Chrome as a \u201crounding error.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2429\">France suffers 1,000 additional deaths\u00a0in just the past week amid record heat wave\u2014and 85% involved people aged 65 and above<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>But of course, Chrome went on to become the world\u2019s most widely used browser\u2014far bigger than Microsoft\u2019s Internet Explorer. By 2012, it had already surpassed its rivals to become the world\u2019s most-used browser, helping cement Pichai\u2019s reputation inside Google and paving the way for his eventual rise to CEO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou have to say: we\u2019re going to do this thing which everybody thinks is stupid, maybe unrealistic, Jain learned from the experience. \u201cThat\u2019s when magic happens.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And says it cements the idea that thinking \u201ccrazy\u201d is an attribute as important as grinding away\u2014and one that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin share with Pichai.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had no sort of constraints in their minds on what\u2019s possible,\u201d Jain added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think that those were the two main things I learned: hard work, but then the disregard for normalcy and regular constraint thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Arvind Jain built two billion-dollar start-ups after leaving Google<\/h2>\n<p>Jain left Google having quietly internalized everything he\u2019d observed\u2014and went on to apply it twice over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He co-founded Rubrik, the cloud data management company that IPO\u2019d on the New York Stock Exchange in 2024 at around $5.6 billion, before launching Glean, the AI startup that helps employees search and understand information across their entire company. <\/p>\n<p>Glean is now valued at $7.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>And Jain\u2019s still taking lessons from his colleagues. This time, the CEO says he takes the most notes from his young Gen Z hires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cActually, I feel like I learn the most from the youngest people,\u201d he told <em>Fortune<\/em>. \u201cThey\u2019re the ones who have not seen the things that I\u2019ve seen. They have new points of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2427\">More than 3 million college students are raising kids. 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