While Pichai’s 2024 compensation stood at $10.73 million (Rs 90 crore), it was modest compared to other tech leaders. For instance, Apple’s Tim Cook earned $74.6 million (approximately Rs 729 crore), according to Mint, and Netflix’s co-CEOs each received over $60 million (over Rs 500 crore), reports Variety.

Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, took the stand on Wednesday during the remedies phase of the company’s search antitrust trial, and offered a simple message. The US government’s plan to rectify Google’s search monopoly, he said, would be so crushing to Google Search that it might be hard to justify continuing to build a search engine at all.