What is Alphabet Inc.?
{{Infobox company}} '''Alphabet''' is an American company based in [[California]]. It holds [[Google]] and 12<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Hartmans|first1=Avery|last2=Meisenzahl|first2=Mary|title=All the companies and divisions under Google's parent company, Alphabet, which just made yet another shake-up to its structure|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/alphabet-google-company-list-2017-4|access-date=2021-10-04|website=Business Insider|language=en-US}}</ref> other projects.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-07-19|title=Google's Loon brings internet-by-balloon to Kenya - BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44886803|access-date=2021-10-04|website=BBC|archive-date=2018-07-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719182259/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44886803|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[CEO]] is [[Sundar Pichai]]. == History == Alphabet was founded as a Google [[Parent company|parent]] [[holding company]] on August 10, 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kelly|first=Heather|date=2015-08-10|title=Meet Google Alphabet - Google's new parent company|url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/08/10/technology/alphabet-google/index.html|access-date=2021-10-04|website=CNNMoney}}</ref> It included 9 businesses.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-08-10|title=Google Rises After Creating Holding Company Called Alphabet|language=en|work=Bloomberg.com|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-10/google-to-adopt-new-holding-structure-under-name-alphabet-|access-date=2021-10-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Greenberg|first=Julia|title=What Google, I Mean Alphabet, Looks Like Now|language=en-US|work=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/2015/08/google-mean-alphabet-looks-like-now/|access-date=2021-10-04|issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Rosoff|first=Matt|title=What is Alphabet, Google's new company?|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-alphabet-googles-new-company-2015-8|access-date=2021-10-04|website=Business Insider|language=en-US}}</ref> On December 3, 2019, the Google CEO [[Sundar Pichai]] became the Alphabet CEO too.