business Overview
| HQ | placeSan Francisco Bay Area |
| Business | Search, ads, and consumer apps (incl. YouTube, Android) |
| Founded | access_time 24 years ago (founded Sep 4, 1998) |
| Company trajectory rank | TrueUp Rank #540 |
| Employees | 190,000 TrueUp Rank #7 |
| Valuation | $1,145 B TrueUp Rank #3 52 wk high: $1,967 B (-42%) 1 year ago: $1,897 B (-40%) 10 years ago: $229 B (+399%) |
| Public / Private | Public ($GOOGL) |
| Lists | FAANG+ |
Google / Alphabet is a search, ads, and consumer apps (incl. YouTube, Android) company with 966 job openings. It is currently valued at $1,145 billion as a public company. 190,000 people work at Google / Alphabet. The company was founded in 1998.
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local_atm Financials
| Valuation | $1,145 B TrueUp Rank #3 52 wk high: $1,967 B (-42%) 1 year ago: $1,897 B (-40%) 10 years ago: $229 B (+399%) |
| Revenue trailing 12 months | $282 billion TrueUp Rank #6 |
| Revenue growth vs. same quarter last year | 6.1% TrueUp Rank #330 |
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| Valuation / Revenue | 4.1x |
| Valuation per employee | $6.0 million TrueUp Rank #346 |
| Revenue per employee | $1.5 million |
phonelink Products
| Top products | - Google Search - Google Ads - YouTube (acq in 2006 for $1.65B) - Android (acq in 2005 for $50M) |
| Other important products | - Google Chrome - Gmail - Google Calendar - Google Docs - Google Maps - Waze (acq in 2013 for $1.1B) - Google Home - Google Nest (acq in 2014 for $3.2B) - Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Looker (acq in 2019 for $2.6B) - Verily - Waymo - Calico - DeepMind (acq in 2014 for $500M) |
| Primary customer type | emoji_people B2C+business B2B |
| Is this really a tech company? | Definitely remove Network effects check Zero marginal costs to produce check Product improves over time check Zero cost to expand globally check Self-serve onboarding + Zero cost of sales |
emoji_people Culture
| Glassdoor employee reviews | 90% would recommend Google / Alphabet to a friend (38,168Â reviews) better than 81% of tech co's 93% approve of the CEO Sundar Pichai (6,940Â reviews) better than 72% of tech co's |
| Company mission | "Our mission is to organize the worldâs information and make it universally accessible and useful." |
| Google's 10 things we know to be true | - Focus on the user and all else will follow - Itâs best to do one thing really really well - Fast is better than slow - Democracy on the web works - You donât need to be at your desk to need an answer - You can make money without doing evil - Thereâs always more information out there - The need for information crosses all borders - You can be serious without a suit - Great just isnât good enough |
| Company culture links | Google's missionnorth_east about.google |
| Companies founded by former employees | - Cloudera (founded 2008) - Instagram (founded 2010) - Optimizely (founded 2010) - Pinterest (founded 2010) - Xiaomi (founded 2010) - Airtable (founded 2012) - Flatiron Health (founded 2012) - Rubrik (founded 2014) |
| public Climate change efforts | Carbon-neutral achieved: 2007 |
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code Open Source
| Open source citizenship | sentiment_very_satisfiedsentiment_very_satisfied Outstanding TrueUp Rank #9 |
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rule Policies
| % of open jobs that are remote | 13% |
| home_work Remote work policy | Fully remote work is sometimes an option |
| Same pay everywhere? (same work, same pay) | sentiment_very_dissatisfiedNo |
| public H1B sponsorships approved in 2021 | 1,454 TrueUp Rank #2 |
card_giftcard Benefits (US)
| Total value of benefits (annual estimate) | $13,543 (sentiment_very_satisfiedsentiment_very_satisfied Outstanding) TrueUp Rank #1 |
| 401k match | 50% match |
401k match limit | No limit |
| If you make... | Your max 401k match is... |
| $50k base salary | $9,500 |
| $100k base salary | $9,500 |
| $150k base salary | $9,500 |
| $200k base salary | $9,500 |
flight_takeoff Paid vacation (1st year) | 15 days |
| Stock vesting schedule | Monthly |
| child_friendly Maternity leave | 22 weeks |
| child_friendly Paternity leave | 12 weeks |
| Other employee benefits | - Donation matching: 100% match. Up to $10k matched |
history Other info
Associated billionaires (source:Forbes) | $80.8B - Larry Page $77.5B - Sergey Brin $16.4B - Eric Schmidt $9.1B - David Cheriton $10.0B - Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family $2.2B - Kavitark Ram Shriram |
| IPO date | Aug 19, 2004 (18 years ago) |
| Top owners at IPO | 16.0% - Larry Page 15.9% - Sergey Brin 9.9% - Sequoia Capital 8.7% - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 6.1% - Eric Schmidt 2.2% - K. Ram Shriram 2.0% - Omid Kordestani |
| Founder ownership at IPO | 31.9% |
| Implied founder equity split | 50% - Larry Page 50% - Sergey Brin |
| Unsuccessful products trending_down | - Google+ - Google Glass - Google Reader - Google Wave - Orkut - Google Buzz - Google Lively - Nexus Q - Google TV - Project Tango - Google Daydream - Google tablets - Project Ara - Google Hire - Google Fiber - The Google Barge |
