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		</div><p>The co-founders of Google are stepping down as executives of its parent company, Alphabet.</p>
<p>The move ends a remarkable two decades during which Larry Page and Sergey Brin shaped a start-up born in a Silicon Valley garage into one of the world’s largest, most powerful — and, increasingly, most feared — firms in the world.</p>
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<p>Sundar Pichai, who has been leading Google as CEO for more than four years, will stay in his role and also become CEO of Alphabet.</p>
<p>Mr Page was Alphabet’s CEO, while Mr Brin was its president. The president’s role at Alphabet is not being filled.</p>
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<p>Both founders promised they plan to stay actively involved as board members and shareholders and lauded Mr Pichai for his leadership of Google.</p>
<p>Mr Page and Mr Brin, in announcing the news on Tuesday, said the company has “evolved and matured” in the two decades since its founding.</p>
<p>“Today, in 2019, if the company was a person, it would be a young adult of 21 and it would be time to leave the roost,” they said.</p>
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<p>Alphabet — an umbrella corporation that the two created in 2015 — still boasts Google as its central fixture and key moneymaker.</p>
<p>But it is also made up of what are known as “other bets”, or longshot projects.</p>
<p>That includes drone company Wing and self-driving car firm Waymo.</p>
<p>Mr Page and Mr Brin both have been noticeably absent from Google events in the past year.</p>
<p>Both stopped making appearances at the weekly question-and-answer sessions with employees, and Mr Page did not attend this summer’s Alphabet shareholders meeting even though he was still in the CEO role.</p>
<p>Alphabet has been positioning Mr Pichai as the de facto leader for quite some time — making him the top executive voice at shareholders meetings, on earnings call and as a spokesman at congressional hearings.</p>
<p>Mr Pichai, 47, has worked at the company for 15 years, serving as a leader in projects to build the company’s Chrome browser and overseeing Android operating system.</p>
<p>Mr Pichai, who has an engineering background, took over as the head of Google’s products before being promoted to CEO when Alphabet was created.</p>
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