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#101 CEO Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian: Competitor-Aware and Customer-Obsessed

Grit

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How Did You Become a Computer Programmer?

When i grew up in bengalor i'd never seen a computer. You wrote programmes on a punch card machine that went into like a main frame, and you got your answer back. We used to do home work at nights when power was cut off, with candlelight. There's something in the water. I've never seen anything like it. Did you look identical? We do look very similar. Still even to day to day, probably a little bit more different. Even as recently as ten years ago, my dad would sit down, when we went back to india after being in the united states, his dad would talk to us for a while. And i be like

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