Alphabet

CO-FOUNDER: LARRY PAGE

SUCCESSOR: SUNDAR PICHAI

Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced in December 2019 that Google CEO Sundar Pichai would be replacing Page as the CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet, while at the same time Brin would be stepping down from his role as Alphabet's president. Pichai had previously succeeded Page as CEO of Google in August 2015. Page and Brin founded Google in September 1998 while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation for a suite of Google's software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive.