Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
Chunk: 53

Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 53
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 our stockholders to communicate their priorities and concerns with our Board, management, and other stockholders. Such practices include:

| • | Our bylaws provide that special meetings of stockholders may be called at the request, in writing, of the holders of record of at least 20% of the total voting power of the outstanding shares of capital stock of Alphabet then entitled to vote. |
| • | We hold an annual election of directors.                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| • | Our proxy access bylaw provision permits eligible stockholders to nominate and include information about director nominees in Alphabet’s proxy card, as discussed on page 102 of this proxy statement.                                              |

In addition, we proactively engage with a number of our stockholders, providing opportunities to discuss and deliver feedback. We share the feedback from these conversations with our Board, which considers these perspectives as part of its evaluation and review of our practices and disclosures. Based on the foregoing, our Board believes that written consent procedures, with its potential for abuse and disenfranchisement of a large group of stockholders, would not provide any additional benefit to our stockholders. Required Vote Approval of the stockholder proposal requires the affirmative FOR vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of Alphabet’s shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock present or represented by proxy at the 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. |

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Proposal Number 4:
Stockholder Proposal Regarding a Financial Performance Policy Vermont Pension Investment Commission has advised us that it intends to submit the following proposal for consideration at the Annual Meeting. RESOLVED:Shareholders urge the Board of Directors to adopt a policy that financial performance metrics shall be adjusted, to the extent practicable, to exclude the impact of share repurchases when determining the amount or vesting of any senior executive incentive compensation grant or award. Compliance with this policy shall be excused if it would cause the company to violate any existing contractual obligations or the terms of any compensation plan, but shall apply to future employment agreements and plans. SUPPORTING STATEMENT Senior executive pay should be aligned with