Stanford students walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai's graduation speech: 'We don't need another tech billionaire to tell us how to…'
Over 200 Stanford students walked out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech Sunday, chanting "Free, free Palestine" and booing over Project Nimbus, Google's $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel. Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid, the protest hit Pichai even after he skipped AI to dodge the backlash other tech executives faced this graduation season. Students held a rival "People's Commencement."
Over 200 Stanford students walked out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech Sunday, chanting "Free, free Palestine" and booing over Project Nimbus, Google's $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel. Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid, the protest hit Pichai even after he skipped AI to dodge the backlash other tech executives faced this graduation season. Students held a rival "People's Commencement."
