Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
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Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 50
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 on the ballot despite making headway during our engagements. We have also received an increasing number of proposals submitted by proponents on behalf of certain special interest groups that are not stockholders. In such instances, we take into account our efforts to engage with these groups outside of the proxy process. |

Independent of our stockholder proposal process, we have continued to thoughtfully enhance our disclosures, often as a result of our ongoing engagement with external experts, in alignment with evolving business requirements, and in ways that do not compromise competitively sensitive information or stockholder value. Various stockholders have submitted Proposal Numbers 3-14 for the Annual Meeting. These stockholder proposals, including any supporting statements, are included exactly as submitted to us by their proponents. While a number of these proposals contain typographical errors, factual inaccuracies, and claims that we believe are incorrect or misleading, we have not attempted to correct or refute all of them. Alphabet2025 Proxy Statement 62

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We describe here our Board’s rationale for recommending against each stockholder proposal submitted for the Annual Meeting:

| Proposal    |                                                                                                                      |     | Alphabet       
 Board Voting   
 Recommendation |         |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Rationale |                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| Stockholder 
 Proposals:  |                                                                                                                      |     |                |         |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 3           | Stockholder proposal regarding “Support for Shareholder Right to Act by Written Consent” (page 65)                   |     |                | AGAINST |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | •         | A written consent process does not promote transparent decision-making and could disenfranchise stockholders                                                                                                     |
|             |                                                                                                                      |     |                | •       | Stockholder meetings offer important protections and advantages that are absent from the written consent process                                                                                                                     |           |                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 4           | Stockholder proposal regarding a financial performance policy (page 67)                                              |     |                | AGAINST |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | •         | Our Board and its committees are best positioned to review the company’s capital allocation plan and ensure that executive compensation is aligned with such strategy and the best interests of our stockholders |
| 5           | Stockholder proposal regarding a report on charitable partnerships (page 69)                                         |     |                | AGAINST |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | •         | The proposal inappropriately seeks