Alphabet

Alphabet 主要是公司的集合。其中最大的当然是谷歌。这个新的谷歌有点精简了，与我们主要互联网产品相距甚远的公司都包含在 Alphabet 中。我们所说的远方是什么意思？我们在健康方面的努力就是很好的例子：生命科学（致力于葡萄糖感应隐形眼镜）和Calico（专注于长寿）。从根本上说，我们相信这使我们能够扩大管理规模，因为我们可以独立运行不太相关的事情。

Alphabet 致力于通过强有力的领导者和独立性实现企业的繁荣。总的来说，我们的模式是有一位强有力的首席执行官来管理每项业务，而谢尔盖和我则根据需要为他们提供服务。我们将严格控制资金配置，确保各项业务良好运行。我们还将确保每个业务都有一位出色的首席执行官，并且我们将确定他们的薪酬。此外，通过这种新结构，我们计划对第四季度业绩实施分部报告，其中谷歌的财务数据将与 Alphabet 其余业务的整体财务数据分开提供。

这种新的结构将使我们能够高度关注谷歌内部的非凡机会。其中一个关键部分是桑达尔·皮查伊(Sundar Pichai)。桑达尔在相当长的一段时间里一直在说我想说的话（有时甚至更好！），而且我非常享受我们的合作。自去年 10 月开始承担我们互联网业务的产品和工程职责以来，他确实取得了进步。谢尔盖和我对他的进步和对公司的奉献感到非常兴奋。我们和我们的董事会都清楚，现在是桑达尔担任谷歌首席执行官的时候了。我感到非常幸运，有像他这样有才华的人来管理稍微精简的谷歌，这为我腾出了时间来继续扩大我们的抱负。我花了很多时间和桑达尔在一起，尽我所能帮助他和公司，我当然会继续这样做。谷歌本身也在生产各种新产品，我知道桑达尔将始终专注于创新——不断突破界限。我知道他非常关心我们能否继续在组织世界信息的核心使命上取得重大进展。最近推出的 Google Photos 和 Google Now 等使用机器学习的产品取得了惊人的进步。谷歌还有一些以自己的身份运行的服务，比如 YouTube。苏珊作为首席执行官表现出色，运营着强大的品牌并推动了令人难以置信的增长。

Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is a bit slimmed down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main internet products contained in Alphabet instead. What do we mean by far afield? Good examples are our health efforts: Life Sciences (that works on the glucose-sensing contact lens), and Calico (focused on longevity). Fundamentally, we believe this allows us more management scale, as we can run things independently that aren’t very related.

Alphabet is about businesses prospering through strong leaders and independence. In general, our model is to have a strong CEO who runs each business, with Sergey and me in service to them as needed. We will rigorously handle capital allocation and work to make sure each business is executing well. We’ll also make sure we have a great CEO for each business, and we’ll determine their compensation. In addition, with this new structure we plan to implement segment reporting for our Q4 results, where Google financials will be provided separately than those for the rest of Alphabet businesses as a whole.

This new structure will allow us to keep tremendous focus on the extraordinary opportunities we have inside of Google. A key part of this is Sundar Pichai. Sundar has been saying the things I would have said (and sometimes better!) for quite some time now, and I’ve been tremendously enjoying our work together. He has really stepped up since October of last year, when he took on product and engineering responsibility for our internet businesses. Sergey and I have been super excited about his progress and dedication to the company. And it is clear to us and our board that it is time for Sundar to be CEO of Google. I feel very fortunate to have someone as talented as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google and this frees up time for me to continue to scale our aspirations. I have been spending quite a bit of time with Sundar, helping him and the company in any way I can, and I will of course continue to do that. Google itself is also making all sorts of new products, and I know Sundar will always be focused on innovation—continuing to stretch boundaries. I know he deeply cares that we can continue to make big strides on our core mission to organize the world’s information. Recent launches like Google Photos and Google Now using machine learning are amazing progress. Google also has some services that are run with their own identity, like YouTube. Susan is doing a great job as CEO, running a strong brand and driving incredible growth.