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Who is the Google owner?



Alphabet owns Google. Alphabet's Top 10 major shareholders, who collectively hold 28% of total shares outstanding, can be found on this page:

https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...


This looks like it’s lisitng institutional shareholders only. I think L&S are still controlling shareholders


Alphabet.

I guess they figure many don’t know that the company is technically called Alphabet


Don't agree.

I think it's poor writing on the articles part. The letter is addressed explicitly to Sundar Pichai not Alphabet.


The heading at the start of the letter says Alphabet


No the letter's heading says "TCI Fund Management Limited". Right under that says "Sundar Pichai".

https://www.tcifund.com/files/corporateengageement/alphabet/...


That's the letterhead of the sender. Pichai is the recipient, under that is his affiliation: Alphabet.

Edit: it's funny, I learned this in high school in a "keyboarding" class that was a complete waste of my time. At the time, I was annoyed: if I'm reading a letter, it's probably written to me; if I send a letter, the recipient will know that my name is not theirs. Where's the ambiguity? All these years later, it finally comes useful. I got an internet point.


Sure, but the argument is about if the letter was sent to Google's owner which it is not.

It is sent to Sundar Pichai, Alphabet's Chief Executive Officer which you have also pointed out but the grandparent had not figured out. Sundar Pichai does not own Alphabet in addition to having the role of CEO.




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