Alphabet is the parent company that owns Google, YouTube, and Android under its corporate structure.
Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created Alphabet in 2015 through a corporate reorganization. Google became a subsidiary focused on internet products and services, while Alphabet provided a broader holding-company structure for Google and other ventures. Sundar Pichai became Alphabet’s chief executive in 2019 after leading Google.
Alphabet’s major businesses include online advertising, Google Search, YouTube, cloud computing, and Android. The name Alphabet is sometimes confused with Google because Google remains its best-known operating company. Market capitalization measures the value of Alphabet’s publicly traded equity and can rise or fall with investor expectations about advertising, cloud services, artificial intelligence, and other businesses.