Sundar Pichai

I've obviously spoken before about how long it took for us to get a phone, about five years, but it's not the only thing.

A telephone.

There was a five-year waiting list, and we got a rotary telephone.

but it dramatically changed our lives.

But it dramatically changed our lives. You know, people would come to our house to make calls to their loved ones. You know, I would have to go all the way to the hospital to get blood test records. And it would take two hours to go. And they would say, sorry, it's not ready. Come back the next day. Two hours to come back. And that became a five-minute thing.

But it dramatically changed our lives. You know, people would come to our house to make calls to their loved ones. You know, I would have to go all the way to the hospital to get blood test records. And it would take two hours to go. And they would say, sorry, it's not ready. Come back the next day. Two hours to come back. And that became a five-minute thing.

But it dramatically changed our lives. You know, people would come to our house to make calls to their loved ones. You know, I would have to go all the way to the hospital to get blood test records. And it would take two hours to go. And they would say, sorry, it's not ready. Come back the next day. Two hours to come back. And that became a five-minute thing.

You know, people would come to our house to make calls to their loved ones.

You know, I would have to go all the way to the hospital to get blood test records, and it would take two hours to go, and they would say, sorry, it's not ready, come back the next day.

Two hours to come back.

And that became a five-minute thing.

So as a kid, like, I mean, this light bulb went in my head. You know, this power of technology to kind of change people's lives. We had no running water. You know, it was a massive drought. So they would get water in these trucks, maybe eight buckets per household. So me and my brother, sometimes my mom, we would wait in line, get that and bring it back home.

So as a kid, like, I mean, this light bulb went in my head. You know, this power of technology to kind of change people's lives. We had no running water. You know, it was a massive drought. So they would get water in these trucks, maybe eight buckets per household. So me and my brother, sometimes my mom, we would wait in line, get that and bring it back home.

So as a kid, like, I mean, this light bulb went in my head. You know, this power of technology to kind of change people's lives. We had no running water. You know, it was a massive drought. So they would get water in these trucks, maybe eight buckets per household. So me and my brother, sometimes my mom, we would wait in line, get that and bring it back home.

So as a kid, like, I mean, this light bulb went in my head, you know, this power of technology to kind of change people's lives.

We had no running water.

You know, it was a massive drought.

So they would get water in these trucks, maybe eight buckets per household.

So me and my brother, sometimes my mom, we would wait in line, get that and bring it back home.

Many years later, like we had running water and we had a water heater and you would get hot water to take a shower. I mean, like, so, you know, for me, everything was discreet like that. And so I've always had this thing, you know, first hand feeling of like how technology can dramatically change like your life and like the opportunity it brings.