Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
Chunk: 27

Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 27
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 December 31, 2024, there were 7,000 Class C GSUs outstanding for Marty.                                                                                                                                                              |
| (5) | On December 31, 2024, there were 7,181 Class C GSUs                                                                                                                                                                                     
 outstanding for John Hennessy.                                                                                                                                                                                                          |

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| Proxy Statement 
 Summary &       
 Highlights      | Corporate  
 Governance | Director and 
 Executive    
 Compensation | Audit Matters | Proposals | Q&A |

Executive Compensation Table of Contents

| The                                   
 CD&A is organized into five sections: |                                          |    |
|                                       | Section 1—Executive Summary              | 41 |
|                                       | Section 2—Determining Competitive Levels 
 of Pay                                   | 42 |
|                                       | Section 3—Elements of Pay and Fiscal     
 Year 2024 Pay Decisions                  | 43 |
|                                       | Section 4—2025 Compensation Decisions    | 45 |
|                                       | Section 5—Other Compensation Information | 46 |

Compensation Discussion and Analysis Overview Our Compensation Discussion and Analysis (CD&A) includes a detailed discussion of compensation for six named executive officers during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024:

Section 1 — Executive Summary Compensation Philosophy We designed our employee and executive compensation programs to support three goals:

| • | Attract                                  
 and retain the world’s best talent       |
| • | Support our culture                      
 of innovation and performance            |
| • | Align employee and stockholder interests |

We pay employees competitively compared to other opportunities they might have in the market.We also offer competitive benefits to promote the health and wellbeing of our employees, provide certain perks that make life and work more convenient, design compelling job opportunities aligned with our mission, and create a fun and energizing work environment. We believe in pay for performance, which is reflected in our compensation design.The proportion of overall pay tied to performance is higher for employees at more senior levels in the organization, reflecting their opportunity to have more impact on company performance. We use equity awards that vest over time to align employee and stockholder interests and provide incentive for continued service.We believe that retaining and developing the best talent over the long-term is a key factor in our business success and ability to continue creating value for our stockholders. We require our named executive officers and other senior executives to maintain certain levels of holdings of Alphabet stock. See Section 5 of this CD&A for a description of our minimum stock ownership requirements