Larry Page

Page and Sergey Brin's 2004 letter to prospective Google shareholders said plainly that the company would not give earnings guidance and would make long bets, and they used a dual-class share structure so outside investors could not force short-term choices. The structure is controversial because it limits shareholder say. The bets that followed, Android, YouTube and DeepMind, mostly paid off, while others under Alphabet's moonshot units cost billions without a business.