Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California.
It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. Alphabet is the world's third-largest technology company by revenue and one of the world's most valuable companies. It is one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
The establishment of Alphabet Inc. was prompted by a desire to make the core Google business "cleaner and more accountable" while allowing greater autonomy to group companies that operate in industries other than Internet services.
Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced their resignation from their executive posts in December 2019, with the CEO role to be filled by Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google. Page and Brin remain employees, board members, and controlling shareholders of Alphabet Inc.
Trade name: Alphabet
Type: Public
Industry: Conglomerate
Founded: October 2, 2015; 7 years ago
Founders: Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Headquarters: Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S.
Key people: Larry Page (Board member)
Sergey Brin (Board member)
John L. Hennessy (Chairman)
Sundar Pichai (CEO)
Ruth Porat (CFO)
Products: Artificial intelligence
Automation
Autonomous cars
Biotechnology
Cloud computing
Computer hardware
Corporate venture capital
Fiber to the x
Health care
Internet
Robotics
Software Number of employees:186,779 (Sept. 2022)
Website: abc.xyz
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