Stanford University is a university of academic and professional elites. Stanford has produced some of the biggest entrepreneurs, business magnates and technology personnel. Today, Stanford University is the alma mater of 220,000 alumni worldwide. The university boasts of producing highly competent professionals in the field of business, academics, arts and entertainment, sports, writing, poetry and others. Stanford is home to 20 living Nobel laureates.

Currently, Stanford University has over 400 alumni in India. Stanford Club of India is the Indian community of Stanford University alumni. The club allows students to meet new people, reconnect with classmates and explore regional activities.
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Sundar Pichai- Chief Executive Officer, Google and Alphabet

Sundar Pichai is an Indian American software engineer and is one of the most famous Stanford alumni. He pursued MS in materials science and engineering at Stanford University. Pichai started his career in materials engineering and product management at Applied Materials. Soon, he joined McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant. Following that Pichai joined Google in 2004 and was responsible for product management and innovation for a number of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as Google Drive. He went on to lead the development of other Google products including Gmail and Maps. Pichai was named the future CEO of Google in 2015 after being named Product Chief by Larry Page, who was the CEO of google back then.

Parag Agarwal, Former CEO of Twitter

Parag Agarwal is among the most famous Stanford University notable Indian alumni of recent times. Parag has completed his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and pursued several research internships at Microsoft and Yahoo before joining Twitter in 2021. He served as Twitter CEO before being replaced by Elon Musk in October, 2022.

Azim Premji, Indian Businessman, Ex-Chairman of Wipro

After pursuing his BSc in Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford University, He returned to India to take charge of Wipro, which his father Muhammed Hashim Premji started. Today, he is considered as one of the richest people in India with a net worth of 9 billion USD as of February, 2023.

Mukesh Ambani- Indian Business Tycoon, 2nd Richest Person in Asia

Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and largest stakeholder of Reliance Industries, a Fortune Global 500 corporation and India's most valuable firm by market value. Ambani had completed his MBA degree from Stanford University, following which he took Reliance Industries to greater horizons of the business world. Mukesh Ambani currently owns a total business with a revenue of 104 Billion USD under Reliance Industries.

Larry Page, Co-founder, Google

One of the most renowned names in the entrepreneurial world is Larry Page who is a computer scientist as well as the founding CEO of Google. He pursued his MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. The computer science genius founded Google in 1998 and within a short span of 2 years, it came to be recognized as the most advanced and powerful web search engine at that time. Since then, it never looked back and as we all know, the rest is history. In 2022?, Larry Page was listed in the Forbes 400 and gained #6th position. He was also placed #6th among the top Billionaires by Forbes, 2022.

Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google

Sergey Brin along with Larry Page founded the multi-billionaire tech company Google. With a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation, he enrolled for MS in Computer Science at Stanford. Sergey Brin stepped down as the President of Google's Parent company, Alphabet in 2022. Though he still serves as the main shareholder and board member of Google.

Elon Musk, Business Tycoon, Founder of SpaceX, Co-Founder of Tesla

Elon Musk is currently the richest man in the world according to the real time billionaire’s list by Forbes. Elon is popular among young entrepreneurs and tech savvys. He enrolled in the PhD program in Physics at Stanford, but later dropped out for his plans to pursue business education. Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX, a private space transport service company. He is also arguably one of the founding members of Tesla, the world’s highest selling electric vehicle brand. Musk is also the founder of projects like Hyperloop, OpenAI, Neuraling, Tesla Energy and several others. In April 2022, he made an agreement with Twitter board members to purchase the company for 44 Billion USD. At present, Elon Musk owns almost 74% of the company.

Tiger Woods, World's Greatest Golf Champion

Tiger Woods was admitted at Stanford University under a golf scholarship, where he selected economics as his major subject. The 40th Annual William H. Tucker Invitational was his first collegiate victory. At the age of 21, he became the tournament's youngest champion when he won his maiden major, the Masters, in 1997. Today he is an eminent golf professional with several accolades and titles.
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Reed Hastings, Co founder and Chief Executive Officer of Netflix

Reed Hastings went on to pursue MS in Computer Science at Stanford University after being rejected from MIT which was his initial preference. In 1997, Reed co-founded Netflix, which at that time offered flat rate movie rental-by-mail to clients in the United States integrating two developing technologies: DVDs, which were considerably simpler to deliver than VHS-cassettes, and a website to buy them from, rather than a printed catalog. Later he decided to integrate all the movies and shows into a single platform and charge people for their subscriptions on a monthly basis. Today, Netflix has over 222 million subscribers worldwide.

Peter Thiel, American Billionaire Entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal

Peter Thiel enrolled at Stanford to study Philosophy. He was the Co-founder of the internationally renowned "The Stanford Review". He served as the first editor in chief of the newspaper and then pursued Juris Doctor at Stanford Law School in 1992. After working in the judiciary field for some years he founded Thiel Capital Management in 1996. Later he Co-founded Paypal and served as the CEO of eBay. Thiel supervises the grant-making bodies Breakout Labs and Thiel Fellowship and finances nonprofit research into artificial intelligence, life extension, and seasteading through the Thiel Foundation. He also has major investments in two of the most valuable unicorns, SpaceX and Stripe.

Mark Zuckerberg also has an old relationship with Stanford University. Mark Zuckerberg is the chairman, CEO and shareholder of his social media website, Facebook and its parent company, Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.). Mark was a student of Harvard University, but, as a student, when he decided to experiment with Facebook across schools, he started with Stanford University, NYU, Cornell, UPenn and several other tier 1 institutes.

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Apart from these notable alumni that we have included in the list, Stanford has produced many more talents working across different professional fields. Companies established by Stanford University alumni have generated $2.7 trillion annual revenue. Since 1930, these foundations have created 5.4 million jobs according to Stanford University’s Economic Impact via Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2012.