Cloud Computing: Google Founders Reorganize Corporate Structure Under Alphabet

Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Jessica Davis.

How big is too big? When the supertanker can no longer be agile, maybe it’s time to create a large fleet of swifter vessels. (Being the swifter vessel is an advantage MSPs often enjoy in a marketplace of larger operators.) Google (GOOG) founder Larry Page has announced in a blog post today that he and his co-founder Sergey Brin have formed a new company called Alphabet that will serve as a holding company for the organization’s many companies and initiatives.

The operating company Google will be the largest company in this portfolio structure. Sundar Pichai who has led product and engineering since October 2014 will serve as Google’s CEO. Covering the announcement, the New York Times compared Alphabet’s structure to that of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, a giant conglomerate that is operated as a holding company designed to give its operating companies more rein to be independent and entrepreneurial even within a corporate giant…

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