In a Google blog post, Sergey Brin and Larry Page announced that they are leaving management positions, leaving Google's parent company, Alphabetic, to Sunder Picchai

• Sergey Brin (right) and Larry Page, Google's founders, launching the first G1 Android phone somewhere in 2008 // Photo: Reuters

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two people who founded Google more than 20 years ago, leave their roles and leave the management of Google's parent company, Alphabetically to Sunder Picchai, who until then was Google's CEO. Page and Brin remain friends At the board of directors the company, however, will no longer carry on day-to-day management roles.

"With Alphabet based, and Google and other investments that operate effectively as independent companies, this is the natural time to simplify our management structure. We have never been people who insist on holding management positions, while we think there are better ways to run the company. And Google and Alphabet don't need a CEO pair anymore. "To the sea and the president. Moving forward, Sunder will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet, ”the two wrote in a Google blog post.

"He will be responsible for Google's management and leadership, and managing Alphabet's investments in our portfolio of other bets. We are very committed to Google and Alphabet in the long run, and will remain involved as board members, shareholders and co-founders. In addition, we will have regular conversations with Sonder, especially on issues that exist. We have a passion for them. "

At the same time as the founding announcement, Pichai sent his own letter to employees. He emphasized that the change would not actually affect Google's daily activities. "It is important for me to make it clear that the transition will not affect Alphabet's structure or the work we do on a daily basis. I will continue to be focused on Google and the deep work we do to push the boundaries of computing and build Google to help everyone," Pichai wrote. "At the same time, I'm excited about Alphabet, and its long-term focus on addressing big challenges through technology."

The change, though sounding noisy, is no such thing. Two Google founders, since the reorganization under Alphabetical holding company in 2015, have made their voices heard, or seen at important investor conferences or corporate events like the Google I / O Developer Conference. Breen has always been a visionary and someone who represented Google's efforts to develop futuristic products such as the late Google Glass, while Paige, who served as Pichai as Google's CEO, has always been the managerial face. Either way, the two founders are now leaving the company they founded over 20 years ago as Stanford stonemasons, in the proven hands of Sunder Picchai.