Who is the real owner of Google?

Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet, which is a publicly traded holding company. As a public company, Alphabet is owned by its shareholders.

Who is the Google CEO?

Google's CEO is Sundar Pichai, who also heads Alphabet and its subsidiary. He became CEO of Google in late 2015 and of Alphabet in December 2019. Pichai has been with Google since 2004 and oversaw the product management and development of several successful innovations, including Google Drive and Google Chrome.

Can I invest in Google?

Yes, Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet, which is a publicly traded company. Google accounts for substantially all of Alphabet's revenue, so an investment in Alphabet is essentially a direct investment in Google. There are two share classes that are publicly traded. Class A shares trade under the ticker symbol GOOGL and have corporate voting rights, while Class C shares have no voting rights and are listed under the symbol GOOG. Both have the same economic interest in the business.

Who is the parent company of Google?

Google's parent company is Alphabet, which owns Google and all of its subsidiaries, as well as several earlier-stage businesses (Waymo, for example). Waymo, which was originally part of Google, officially restructured as an Alphabet subsidiary in 2016.

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Who Owns Google? History, Shareholders, & Facts

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Alphabet Inc. is the parent company of Google and publicly traded under NASDAQ:GOOGL and GOOG.
Top individual shareholders include co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin; top institutional holders are Vanguard and BlackRock.
Invest in Alphabet via a brokerage account, choosing between Class A (GOOGL) shares with voting rights and Class C (GOOG) shares without.

Google is, by far, the most widely used search engine in the world. It is also the parent company of some of the most popular tools and platforms worldwide, including YouTube, Gmail, and the Android mobile operating system.

In this article, we'll dive into the ownership structure of Google, its largest investors, and how you can put your money to work in Google as an investor.

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NASDAQ: GOOGL

Alphabet

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$4.9T

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Data source: Alphabet
Name	Role	Director Since
Larry Page	Co-founder	1998
Sergey Brin	Co-founder	1998
Sundar Pichai	Chief Executive Officer, Alphabet and Google	2017
Frances Arnold	Independent Director	2019
John L. Hennessy	Chair	2004
R. Martin "Marty" Chávez	Independent Director	2022
L. John Doerr	Independent Director	1999
Roger W. Ferguson Jr.	Independent Director	2016
K. Ram Shriram	Independent Director

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Before we dive into the top individual shareholders of Alphabet stock, it's important to mention that there are some limitations. Unless someone owns more than 5% of a certain class of a company’s stock or they serve as a company executive or board member, there is no requirement for them to disclose their investment to the public.

We also don't have public information about the Class C share holdings (GOOG -1.02%) of any of these individuals, if any, since they don't come with voting rights.

With that in mind, here are the five largest individual shareholders listed on Alphabet's most recent proxy filing.

Larry Page owns 389,051,160 shares of Alphabet, representing about a 3.5% stake in the business. Page co-founded Google and formerly served as the company's CEO.

Sergey Brin owns 362,766,628 shares of the company, representing a 3.2% stake in the business. Brin co-founded Google with Page and formerly served as the company's president.

Eric Schmidt owns 56,921,959 shares, a 0.05% stake in the business. Schmidt served as CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and as the executive chairman until 2017.

L. John Doerr owns 23,290,225 shares, a 0.2% stake in Alphabet. Doerr is a venture capitalist who was one of the early investors in Google.

K. Ram Shriram owns 1,890,174 shares, a 0.016% stake. Shriram was a founding board member and was one of the first investors in Google.

Institutional investors

Most top institutional investors of any publicly traded company (especially larger ones) are companies that offer index funds and have to own enough shares to represent the stock's position in the index. And that's the case for each of the five largest institutions that owned Alphabet stock as of late 2025.

Vanguard Group owns 516,559,609 Class A shares and 416,753,033 Class C shares.

BlackRock (BLK -1.88%) owns 430,223,692 Class A shares and 361,542,043 Class C shares.

State Street (STT -0.41%) owns 229,954,269 Class A shares and 188,914,125 Class C shares.

Fidelity owns 216,384,449 Class A shares and 101,828,085 Class C shares.

Geode Capital Management owns 141,615,284 Class A shares and 107,760,033 Class C shares. Geode's main function is to act as a manager to Fidelity index funds.

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Who owns Google: FAQs

Who is the real owner of Google?

Who is the Google CEO?

Can I invest in Google?

Who is the parent company of Google?

Who is on the board of directors for Google?

Related investing topics

How to invest in Google

FAQs

Who is the owner of Google?

Who are the largest shareholders?

Individuals

Institutional investors