Alphabet Inc.
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Alphabet Inc. (also known as Google) is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. Alphabet is the world's third-largest technology company by revenue and one of the world's most valuable companies.[2][3] It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015,[4] and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries.[5][6][7] It is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
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 Googleplex, home to Alphabet Inc., in Mountain View, California | |
| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Conglomerate |
| Predecessor | Google Inc. (1998-2017) |
| Founded | September 4, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-09-04) or October 2, 2015; 8 years ago (2015-10-02) |
| Founders | |
| Headquarters | Googleplex, , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Products | |
| Revenue |  US$307.4 billion (2023) |
| US$84.29 billion (2023) | |
| US$73.79 billion (2023) | |
| Total assets | US$402.4 billion (2023) |
| Total equity | US$283.4 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | 180,895 (Mar. 2024) |
| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | abc |
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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 businesses other than Internet services.[6][8] 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, who is also the CEO of Google. Page and Brin remain employees, board members, and controlling shareholders of Alphabet Inc.[9]