Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
Chunk: 93

Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 93
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 Annual Meeting and entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class. Unless marked to the contrary, proxies received will be voted AGAINST the stockholder proposal. Alphabet Recommendation

| OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE AGAINST THE 
 STOCKHOLDER PROPOSAL.                                |

Alphabet2025 Proxy Statement 96

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

Questions and Answers About the Proxy Materials and the Annual Meeting Proxy Materials

| 1. | Why am I receiving these materials? |

Our Board made these materials available to you online, or, upon your request, has delivered printed proxy materials to you, in connection with the solicitation of proxies for use at Alphabet’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (Annual Meeting), which will take place on Friday, June 6, 2025 at 9:00 a.m., Pacific Time, via our virtual meeting site at www .virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GOOGL25. You are invited to participate in and vote on the items of business described in this proxy statement at the Annual Meeting if you were an Alphabet Class A or Class B common stock holder as of the close of business on April 8, 2025, the Record Date for the Annual Meeting, or hold a valid proxy for the Annual Meeting. This proxy statement includes information that we are required to provide to you under the SEC rules and that is designed to assist you in voting your shares.

| 2. | What is included in the proxy materials? |

The proxy materials include:

| • 
 • | this proxy statement;                                                       
 our 2024 Annual Report to Stockholders, which includes our Annual Report on 
 Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024; and                  |
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| • | the proxy card or a voting instruction form for the Annual Meeting.         |

| 3. | What information is contained in this proxy statement? |

The information in this proxy statement relates to the proposals to be voted on at the Annual Meeting, the voting process, the compensation of our directors and certain of our executive officers, corporate governance, and certain other required information.

| 4. | Why did I receive a notice in the mail regarding the                               
 internet availability of proxy materials instead of a full set of proxy materials? |

In accordance with rules adopted by