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‘Story to tell to your grandkids’: Indian man runs into Sundar Pichai while visiting sister at Google HQ

The Stanford alumnus shared a photo that quickly went viral, showing him alongside his sister and Pichai.

The picture was taken on Google's iconic California campus (Image source: @akashtronaut/X)The picture was taken on Google's iconic California campus (Image source: @akashtronaut/X)

A casual trip to Google’s headquarters turned into a once-in-a-lifetime surprise for X user Akash Wadawadigi, who unexpectedly bumped into Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Wadawadigi, a Stanford alumnus, shared a photo that quickly went viral, showing him alongside his sister and Pichai on the company’s iconic California campus. “Visited my sister @Google HQ today and ran into the head honcho himself! Mr @sundarpichai it was a pleasure,” he wrote in the caption.

See the viral post here:

The post has already crossed over one lakh views, with social media users congratulating him on the rare encounter. “Running into Sundar Pichai??? Damn you lucky for sure,” one user wrote. Another user said, “Mr Pichai is an amazing personality, please come back to India.”

“This will be a story to tell to your grandkids,” a third user reacted.

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Pichai, who has led Google since 2015 and later took on the role of Alphabet CEO, has long been admired for his humility. Meanwhile, Google recently released the nano banana AI photo editing tool for Gemini. Pichai posted three banana emojis, confirming the rollout. The new AI photo editing tool by Google has been released as the Gemini 2.5 Flash Image.

Nano banana is designed to create more natural edits by keeping people, pets and objects consistent across different scenarios. Recently, Pichai shared a set of AI-generated photos of his dog Jeffree on International Dog Day. The images reimagined Jeffree as a surfer, a cowboy, a superhero and even a chef.

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