Former Google Display, APAC, and Twitter Managing Director Parminder Singh shared a humorous yet intelligent tale on X about a chance meeting with Sundar Pichai times before he assumed the position of CEO. Singh recalls attending a Facebook business group in Mountain View where he was introduced to” an modest man who led the Chrome job.” Singh said he began offering guidance on Chrome books after mistaking his sincerity for a lack of knowledge and assuming he had a technical background. He took my modest ideas into consideration, yet asking follow-up queries, Singh wrote. Shortly afterward, Singh was informed that the guy he had lightly advised was Sundar Pichai, who had just been named CEO of Google, that he knew far more than I did.” It soon became clear that he was just being gracious,” Singh said. That’s the beauty of excellent leaders: they are excellent listeners, Singh continued. When a person inquired about Singh’s advice, he said he couldn’t remember much but that he thought about improving language translation equipment for native speakers. He later said that he recently listened to Pichai’s two-hour meeting with blogger Lex Fridman, laughing out loud,” Balance restored, I guess.” Singh clarified some of the confusion raised by the post by remarking humorously,” Google party is not a new app ( since someone asked! )” )”.
