{"id":2195,"date":"2021-07-17T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/17\/the-bbcs-interviewer-found-himself-on-a-sticky-wicket-with-googles-ceo\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:40:13","slug":"the-bbcs-interviewer-found-himself-on-a-sticky-wicket-with-googles-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/17\/the-bbcs-interviewer-found-himself-on-a-sticky-wicket-with-googles-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC\u2019s interviewer found himself on a sticky wicket with Google\u2019s CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amol Rajan\u2019s questioning failed to get behind the defences of Sundar Pichai\u2019s \u2018nice guy\u2019 media image <\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, in what the BBC clearly regarded as important news, the corporation announced that its media editor, Amol Rajan, had been granted an interview with Sundar Pichai, the current CEO of Alphabet (which basically means Google). It was billed as \u201cthe first of a series of interviews with global figures\u201d. If the boss of Google counts as a global figure, one wonders who else is on the list, the CEO of ExxonMobil?<\/p>\n<p>And the takeaway from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000xwll\">watching this encounter<\/a>? Simply this: Mr Pichai is a nice guy. He comes from a modest background in India, dropped out of Stanford in the time-honoured manner, has an MBA from Wharton and has worked for Google since 2004. He\u2019s been CEO of Google (and Alphabet, its holding company) since 2015.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/jul\/17\/the-bbcs-interviewer-found-himself-on-a-sticky-wicket-with-googles-ceo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b8fadc0d08e8f72e35c0cce04d1f493a7c807ba6\/59_0_1125_675\/master\/1125.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b5ea4fcdc51fc9d514c37a56e393adb6\" title=\"The BBC\u2019s interviewer found himself on a sticky wicket with Google\u2019s CEO\" \/>Amol Rajan\u2019s questioning failed to get behind the defences of Sundar Pichai\u2019s \u2018nice guy\u2019 media image<br \/>\nLast weekend, in what the BBC clearly regarded as important news, the corporation announced that its media editor, Amol Rajan, had been granted an interview with Sundar Pichai, the current CEO of Alphabet (which basically means Google). It was billed as \u201cthe first of a series of interviews with global figures\u201d. If the boss of Google counts as a global figure, one wonders who else is on the list, the CEO of ExxonMobil?<br \/>\nAnd the takeaway from watching this encounter? Simply this: Mr Pichai is a nice guy. He comes from a modest background in India, dropped out of Stanford in the time-honoured manner, has an MBA from Wharton and has worked for Google since 2004. He\u2019s been CEO of Google (and Alphabet, its holding company) since 2015. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amol Rajan\u2019s questioning failed to get behind the defences of Sundar Pichai\u2019s \u2018nice guy\u2019 media image Last weekend, in what the BBC clearly regarded as important news, the corporation announced that its media editor, Amol Rajan, had been granted an interview with Sundar Pichai, the current CEO of Alphabet (which basically means Google). It was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/17\/the-bbcs-interviewer-found-himself-on-a-sticky-wicket-with-googles-ceo\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The BBC\u2019s interviewer found himself on a sticky wicket with Google\u2019s CEO<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}