Category: Business

The names Sundar Pichai and Carl Icahn may appear together in searches about Google, Motorola Mobility and the technology industry, but their connection is more indirect than it may first seem. Pichai became one of Google’s most important executives before eventually taking charge of Google and Alphabet, while Icahn built his reputation as an activist…

Business history is often told through the names of people who built companies, created products, or transformed entire industries. Yet some influential figures made their mark in very different ways. Richard Peery became a major force in Silicon Valley commercial real estate, while Akio Toyoda rose through the ranks of Toyota to lead one of…