{"id":20489,"date":"2019-12-03T21:25:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T05:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20489"},"modified":"2019-12-03T21:25:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T05:25:24","slug":"google-co-founders-step-down-from-parent-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20489","title":{"rendered":"Google co-founders step down from parent company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced Tuesday they will be stepping down from the leadership of the search giant&#8217;s parent company, Alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who previously had been a member of the Alphabet board of directors, will head both companies moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Alphabet now well-established, and Google and the Other Bets operating effectively as independent companies, it&#8217;s the natural time to simplify our management structure,&#8221; Page and Brin wrote in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there&#8217;s a better way to run the company,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p>Alphabet, created in 2015, comprises several companies beyond Google, including the driverless car firm Waymo and the biotech company Calico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20490,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489\/revisions\/20490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}