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Life & fun · August 10, 2015

Alphabet

Google's new holding company

Alphabet launched on August 10, 2015 with 6 votes, #1,811 of 3,588 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one” As part of that, we also said that you could expect us to make “smaller bets in areas that might seem very speculative or even strange when compared to our current businesses.” From the start, we’ve always strived to do more, and to do important and meaningful things with the resources we have. We did a lot of things that seemed crazy at the time. Many of those crazy things now have over a billion users, like Google Maps, YouTube, Chrome, and Android. And we haven’t stopped there. We are still trying to do things other people think are crazy but we are…from abc.xyz

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