Alphabet Inc. GOOGL Chief Executive

What Sundar Pichai says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai

CEO, Alphabet & Google, Director · Alphabet Inc.

Leads overall strategy for Alphabet and Google; joined Google in 2004; became Google CEO in 2015 and Alphabet CEO in 2019.

@sundarpichai Leadership & board →
What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
11/ 70
Level 1Steward

Pichai owns about 0% of Alphabet Inc., worth $1.31B at the last close.

SEC filings
298
Stake 3.8M reported shares ≈ 0.0% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 4/35
Founder Not assessed — whether they founded the company has not been researched Not assessed
Tenure No start date on record, so tenure scores nothing 0/10
Track record Not assessed — their prior companies have not been researched Not assessed
Direction Net seller — 65,000 shares ($19.9M) sold in the last year 0/15
Discipline 2 late Form 4s in 298 filings 7/10

Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 3.8M Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Aug 25, 2026
Last open-market trade Sale · $10.0M Mar 18, 2026 · 32,500 shares at $307.89 avg · no 10b5-1 plan
Paper trail 2 late filings Form 4 covering a 2025-12-25 conversion of a derivative in Alphabet Inc. was filed 2025-12-30, 3 business days later; Section 16 allows two.
Reported Alphabet Inc. shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-08-25
01M2M3M4M 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Aug 2026: net +3,669 shares across 1 movement (largest: convert +3,669)Jul 2026: net +3,668 shares across 1 movement (largest: convert +3,668)Jun 2026: net +3,668 shares across 1 movement (largest: convert +3,668)May 2026: net +3,666 shares across 1 movement (largest: convert +3,666)Apr 2026: net +3,666 shares across 1 movement (largest: convert +3,666)Mar 2026: net −54,002 shares across 3 movements (largest: sale −32,500)Feb 2026: net +606,652 shares across 2 movements (largest: gift −1.1M) 3.8M

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Class C Capital StockDirect1,671,395
Class C Capital StockPichai Family Foundation811,275
Class C Capital StockSundararajan Pichai 2026 Annuity Trust dtd 02/23/2026555,732
Class C Capital StockAnjali Pichai 2026 Annuity Trust dtd 02/18/2026555,732
Class A Common StockDirect227,560
Reported as of 2026-08-253,821,694
Held directly
50%
Vehicles
3 trusts or entities
Share classes
2
Last filing
Aug 27, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 10 events folded from 124 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
Aug 25, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative · Class C Capital Stock +3,669 — —
Jul 25, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative · Class C Capital Stock +3,668 — —
Jun 25, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative · Class C Capital Stock +3,668 — —
May 25, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative · Class C Capital Stock +3,666 — —
Apr 25, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative · Class C Capital Stock +3,666 — —
Mar 25, 2026 Convert Conversion of a derivative · Class C Capital Stock +10,998 — —
Mar 18, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 5 lots, $306.21–$310.18 · Class C Capital Stock −32,500 $307.89 avg $10.0M no 10b5-1 plan
Mar 4, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 5 lots, $301.57–$305.14 · Class C Capital Stock −32,500 $303.38 avg $9.9M no 10b5-1 plan
Feb 26, 2026 Gift Gift · Class C Capital Stock −1,111,464 — —
Feb 26, 2026 Gift Gift · Class C Capital Stock +555,732 — — Through Sundararajan Pichai 2026 Annuity Trust dtd 02/23/2026
Every issuer Sundar Pichai files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
GOOGL Alphabet Inc. This page Chief Executive Officer 3,821,694
2026-08-25		 — —
GOOG GOOGLE INC. Sr. Vice President, Products 15,404
2015-09-25		 — —
JIVE Jive Software, Inc. Director 14,518
2013-05-21		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

298 filings under CIK 0001534753 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q2 2026 Jul 22, 2026 Pichai's argument was that the constraint on Alphabet is compute, not demand, and that the returns justify removing it. He said Alphabet remains supply constrained, put the AI cycle in "very early innings," and said that on a return-on-capital view the company has grown more bullish over the past year rather than less — the frame under which the capex guide went up by $15 billion at both ends. He conceded the one place Gemini is behind, agentic coding, said Gemini 4 is now in training as a much larger base model, and promised a near-monthly release cadence around it. On allocation he was explicit about the order: frontier model development first, then Search, YouTube and Cloud serving. And he defended paying up for third-party capacity as a short-term cost inside a multi-year, highly ROI-positive customer relationship. Read the call · 10 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

8 recorded appearances

2026

2025

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