Alphabet, Google's parent company and a top market-cap business, was created in 2015 under the leadership of which two co-founders?

Alphabet, Google's parent company and a top market-cap business, was created in 2015 under the leadership of Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Page and Brin founded Google in 1998 while they were graduate students at Stanford University. Their early search engine project was originally called BackRub and was based on analyzing links between web pages. Google became the central operating company of a rapidly expanding technology group.

In August 2015, Page and Brin announced a major corporate restructuring. Alphabet Inc. became the parent company, while Google became its largest subsidiary. Sundar Pichai became Google's chief executive, and Page became Alphabet's CEO; Brin served as president.

A common mix-up is treating Alphabet and Google as identical names. Google remains the famous consumer brand, while Alphabet is the corporate parent that also oversees businesses and projects outside Google's core products.