On Monday, August 10, Google almost broke the internet as the company announced a major reorganization of the company, and named a new CEO, too. In an official blog post today, Google announced that it has created a brand new parent company known as “Alphabet.” With this new company, Google will be slimmed down in a big way, but its major facets will not be changing. Google will just be another company under the umbrella known as Alphabet, where other companies, including Calico (a life-extension project) and Wing (a drone-delivery company), will also exist — among many others. For Google, though, the big things are staying the same. Android, Maps, YouTube, and plenty of other products from Google will still remain, and it doesn’t appear any major changes to these services will affect anything. Google’s Sundar Pichai will be the CEO of Google moving forward, while Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be heading up Alphabet. Their goal is to focus on some of the more prominent, ambitious things accomplished, which the pair have always had an eye on:
We are excited about… Getting more ambitious things done. Taking the long-term view. Empowering great entrepreneurs and companies to flourish. Investing at the scale of the opportunities and resources we see. Improving the transparency and oversight of what we’re doing. Making Google even better through greater focus. And hopefully…as a result of all this, improving the lives of as many people as we can.
The changes for Google are undoubtedly huge, but it would appear that the Android brand, along with the features so commonly tied to it, will stay the same for the time being. What do you make of the announcement?
