Sundar Pichai was awarded $281 million in compensation last year. Here's how the Alphabet CEO got his start and rose to become one of the world's highest-paid executives. (GOOG, GOOGL)

· Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company, is now one of the world's highest-paid executives after he was awarded $281 million in total compensation in 2019. 
· Pichai, who is also the CEO of Google, became Alphabet's CEO when Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced last December that they...