The following year, when he became Google CEO, he got $100 million of stock. That was the year the Google CEO job began to morph from a technical leadership role into a political minefield. “Sundar is aging quickly,” said Matt McGowan, a former Google executive who left in 2016. Key parts of the CEO job nowadays, like testifying before Congress and policing internal rancour, are not his favourite. Since that big 2016 stock award, Pichai has collected a $650,000 annual salary and typical CEO perks such as the cost of personal security.

Source: thestar May 29, 2019 16:18 UTC