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His leadership roles were in Chrome, Gmail and Android, not any of the four products mentioned.

> Third, a lot of Pichai's big bets have failed: Google Glass, Google Plus, Google Wave, Project Loon

> He's been responsible for a lot of Google products.

He might have been responsible but i wouldn't call those projects as Pichai's big bets.

Pichai is there to keep the factory lights on and the assembly line running. Nobody is expecting anything more from him.

The most accurate analogy for that responsibility would be Benjamin Treynor Sloss

You're wrong there I think. I personally was surprised by Chrome and the way it took off - initially when it started it looked like a me too product, it seemed pointless to repeat the good work at Firefox. And Android was also a good bet, though in my humble view, not as good a one as Chrome. Sundar got some big calls right.

Chromebooks too.

> was "Product Chief" prior to becoming CEO

for about a year, so still after all those dates. I'd guess Wave fell into his previous responsibility though.

Google doesn’t have a Product Chief responsible for all the products. It’s not organized that way.