Thought it was to get Garland appointed SCOTUS. Scalia was dirty AF but he still had some convictions in his beliefs as a conservative Catholic. Garland would've been a puppet.
>If it wasn't for the stock split, activists may have begun to swirl around the company. The split resulted in each GOOG share being split into GOOG and GOOGL. The move continued a trend among technology companies such as Facebook, Yelp (YELP) and LinkedIn (LNKD) to consolidate control of the company among its founders. These companies inserted such controls after numerous incidents of founders being pushed out of their companies, most infamously with Steve Jobs and Apple (AAPL) in the mid-1980s. So far, the maneuver has had little impact on the stock price, with both classes trading near each other.
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