On January 20, Google announced the layoff of 12,000 employees within the company, thus bringing the number of total employees by December 2023 to 182,502 full-time employees.
How we source: figures on this page come from the company’s own filings (SEC 10-K, 10-Q and earnings releases, or its annual report), with the period stated next to each number. Last refreshed October 2026. Our methodology.
At the end of December 2022, Google had over 190,000 employees . On January 20, Google announced the layoff of 12,000 employees within the company , thus bringing the number of total employees by December 2023 to 182,502 full-time employees.
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Alphabet's revenue passed $400B in 2025: $403B, 4.5x its 2016 level. Source: Alphabet Form 10-K filings via SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts. Analysis by The Business Engineer.Google Services earned $39.5B and Cloud $8.8B; Other Bets and shared AI costs took $7.6B. Source: Alphabet quarterly earnings releases (Form 8-K, SEC EDGAR). Alphabet-level activities as described in the release. Analysis by The Business Engineer.
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Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
