By

Vishal KumarSocial Media AssociateConneXTech

WHAT IS ALPHABET?

Alphabet Inc. is a newly formed company founded by Larry Page and

Sergey Brin. It is basically a parent company of Google Inc. It will own all
the projects currently running under Google including Google itself.

On his blog post, Larry described Alphabet as a collection of companies.

The largest of one is Google.

COMPANY STRUCTURE

10 FACTS ABOUT ALPHABET

 Alphabet Inc. is a holding company founded by Larry Page & Sergey

Brin having its headquarters at California. Larry page is the CEO of
Alphabet with Sergey Brin as President, Eric Schmidt as Chairman and
Ruth Porat as the CFO.

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 Alphabet’s website will be abc.xyz as Alphabet.com has been taken by

fleet management division of BMW.
 Alphabet’s portfolio will include industries like Internet, Computer
Software, Telecommunications Equipment, Healthcare &
Biotechnology.
 Alphabet’s stock will continue to trade under symbols “Goog” and
“Googl”.
 The new CEO of the former company Google will be Sundar Pichai, a
metallurgical student from IIT Kharagpur. He will acquire this position
once the restructuring process of Alphabet Inc. is complete.
 To complete the restructuring process, first Alphabet will be included as
Google’s subsidiary and then role of the two companies will be reversed
by merging Google with dummy subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
 Subsidiary companies of Alphabet include
 Google: - A tech company specializing in Internet-related services and
products.
 Google X: - A semi-secret facility run by Google dedicated in making
major technical advancements. Its projects incudes Project Self-Driving Car,
Project Glass etc.
 Google Fiber: - It provides fiber-to-the-premise service in the United
States, providing broadband internet and cable television to a small and
slowly increasing number of locations.
 Google Ventures: - It will be the corporate venture capital investment
arm of Alphabet Inc. and provides seed, venture, and growth stage funding
to tech companies.
 Google Capital: - Google Capital is the late-stage growth venture capital
fund financed by Google.
 Calico – Calico is an independent research and development biotech
company established in 2013 by Google Inc. and Arthur D. Levinson with
the goal of combating aging and associated diseases.
 Nest Labs – Nest Labs is a home automation producer of programmable,
self-learning, sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled thermostats, smoke detectors,
and other security systems.
 Google Inc. will be the largest subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
 Google will continue to focus on Internet Products and will have
Android, YouTube, Search & ads as its part.

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 The name Alphabet was chosen because it is a collection of letters that

represent language, one of humanity’s most important innovations, and
is the core of how we index with Google Search.