Sundar Pichai's Heartful Memo To Celebrate 25 Years Of Google

Google celebrated its 25th anniversary on September 4 this year, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai took a moment to take us all back on the journey from where it had all started. He recalled a brief story from his youth in a touching blog post. Pichai recalled a moment when he was a student in the US and his Indian father had just acquired his first email address.

Excited about the prospect of faster communication, Pichai sent his father an email and eagerly awaited a response. However, he had to wait for two long days before finally receiving an email with a rather formal reply, "Dear Mr. Pichai, email received. All is well."

Puzzled by the formality and the delay, Pichai called his father to understand what had happened. It turned out that a colleague from his father's office had printed out the email, transcribed his father's dictated response, and then typed it to send it back to Pichai.