Meet Nikesh Arora: Indian-American tech non-founder CEO becomes billionaire

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Meet Nikesh Arora: Indian-American tech non-founder CEO becomes billionaire

Arora got Google's highest pay check in 2012, and Japan's highest pay check in 2014

Published: January 05, 2024 12:45 Dona Cherian, Assistant Online Editor and Inputs from Bloomberg

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STOCK - Nikesh Arora Palo Alto CEO — Dubai: For most billionaires on the world’s rich list, their wealth and net worth comes from entrepreneurship and their own businesses. It is rare to see non-founder tech CEOs breaking into the billionaire’s club – and that’s exactly what 55-year-old Nikesh Arora has done. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Copy of Google_Pixel_Phones_81312--8fd62~1-1697701435763 — Arora is known to bag very high compensation packages. At Google, where he started working in 2004, he became the firm's highest-paid executive after getting a compensation package worth about $51 million in 2012. And Arora was on his way to collecting stock awards worth at least $200 million by the time he left. Image Credit: AP

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Softbank Mayoshi San Nikesh Arora — Poached in 2014 by SoftBank Group Corp.'s Masayoshi Son – and touted as the legendary investor's likely successor – he amassed a $135 million first-year compensation package that broke Japanese records and made him the world's best-paid executive. Arora joined cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Inc. in 2018 when he received a $125 million stock and options compensation package. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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Palo Alto HQ — At Palo Alto, Arora’s compensation package of stock options was contingent on achieving share-price targets – and he did that, marking a 300 per cent gain in the company’s share price. After a series of high-profile hacking incidents that disrupted casinos, ports and even Treasury markets, the company's share price has more than quadrupled since Arora joined. Image Credit: Bloomberg

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