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Delaware's General Corporation Law permits multi-class share structures with unequal voting rights, its Court of Chancery decides corporate disputes quickly and without juries, and roughly two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies are Delaware-domiciled — meaning case law is deep and predictable. California's corporate code is more restrictive, particularly around board composition and shareholder suits, so almost every Silicon Valley company that reaches scale redomiciles to Delaware before its Series B or IPO.

GOOGL shares are Class A common stock and carry one vote per share. GOOG shares are Class C common stock and carry zero votes — they were created in a 2014 stock split specifically to let Alphabet issue stock for acquisitions and employee compensation without diluting the founders' voting power. The third class, Class B, carries ten votes per share and is held almost exclusively by Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and a handful of early insiders. Class B is not publicly traded.

Yes, and many do. The usual pattern is a Delaware C-Corp parent that holds the equity of each operating subsidiary — one for the core product, one for each major geography, sometimes one per product line. The parent signs no customer contracts and holds no employees; it just owns IP, equity, and debt. This gives you clean separation for tax planning, ring-fencing liability, and potential carve-outs or spinoffs later.

Alphabet's registered agent is the Corporation Trust Company, located at Corporation Trust Center, 1209 North Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. This is the most famous business address in the United States — more than 285,000 entities share it, including Apple, Coca-Cola, and Walmart. The physical building is a one-story office shared by thousands of corporations that exist only as legal entities registered in Delaware, with operations elsewhere.