[kraknahs]

"Especially for someone who went from a lower middle class family in one of the poorest states in India to becoming the CEO of Google."

Not to take anything away from Sundar Pichai's accomplishments, but Tamil Nadu, from where he hails, is decidedly not "one of the poorest states in India." It has the second largest gross state domestic product in the country. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Tamil_Nadu

[_nedR]

GDP is not necessarily strongly related to poverty. But you are right. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_states_and_territories_... Tamil Nadu is above the midddle when you rank by poverty. I stand corrected.

[rgovind]

And his father is an engineer in India. Definitely not a bad life.

[_nedR]

Perhaps. Although lot of articles seem to claim that he was from a lower-middle class family, and i was basing my statement on those. His upbringing probably wasn't uncomfortable but still it was modest.