Google CEO Sundar Pichai

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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*EXCLUSIVE* Google CEO Sundar Pichai weighs in on privacy, diversity, Artificial Intelligence, the spread of misinformation and hate speech on YouTube, gender and diversity issues at the company and employee walkouts, and he reacts to the expected US antitrust probe into his company. He opens up about how his upbringing in India with little access to technology impacts his work. CNN received rare access inside a Google data center in Pryor, Oklahoma where the big tech company is adding hundreds of jobs and investing across the Midwest. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:20.0	In this episode of Boss Files, an exclusive interview with Google CEO, Sundar Pichai,
0:26.6	from growing up in India with little access to technology to the top of Google,
0:32.3	how a product guy behind the launch of Chrome and Android was tapped to be CEO,
0:40.1	a job he admits he never asked for,
0:46.1	but one he relishes. It's the job of the CEO to be the chief ethics officer, you know,
0:51.9	given the scale at which technology impacts society. So I viewed as a fundamental part of my role.
0:55.7	But I think ethics needs to come at all layers of the organizations.
1:00.5	Today he's leading the company through significant headwinds and responds for the first time to a possible antitrust investigation of Google and lawmakers calls to break up big tech.
1:06.1	Now there are many countries around the world which aspire to be the next Silicon Valley and
1:10.3	they are supporting
1:11.1	their companies too. So we have to balance both. This doesn't mean you don't scrutinize large
1:15.4	companies. But you have to balance it with the fact that you want big successful companies
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