Being your own person and standing for what you believe is a critical aspect of a good professional life.

With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy?

Everybody knows: people, operations, and the HR component of Google is one critical strategic asset that we have.

People see the speed; people see the innovation, the relentless innovation, and that's what Google is about.

Swansea invested in me. They took a chance on me because I was a second-choice goalkeeper with not much experience when it comes to Premier League games.

When I came to Australia in 1987 as an adoptee from India, I could not have had any idea where my life journey would take me.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

I didn't really have a religious upbringing in my life, which was tough at times because I was searching for some kind of meaning, but it also gave me an avenue to find my own sense of connection.