In a year when Google is overhauling employee compensation to focus more on performance—and quietly pushing lower performers toward smaller bonuses or none at all—CEO Sundar Pichai walked away with a jaw-dropping Rs 90 crore ($10.

Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, took the stand on Wednesday during the remedies phase of the company’s search antitrust trial, and offered a simple message. The US government’s plan to rectify Google’s search monopoly, he said, would be so crushing to Google Search that it might be hard to justify continuing to build a search engine at all.