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> "I have been at network events where people don't know who I am, they assumed I was a random moron," he said. "They treat you like you are not in the room or you are some wait staff."

This reminds me of an article I read soon after Pichai became CEO of Google. It mentioned him, freshly made CEO, attending a tech conference/fair. Despite the Alphabet reorg and him becoming CEO going through tech news world wide a while prior, most people didn't recognize him.

Can't find the article any more, otherwise I'd link it here.