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Ruth Porat

Ruth Porat

Tech & Business

Photo: GES 2016, Public domain

Ruth Porat -- Born: 1957. Occupation: financier. Employer: Alphabet Inc.. Position: chief financial officer. Education: London School of Economics and Political Science.

Born1957

Occupationfinancier

EmployerAlphabet Inc.

Positionchief financial officer

EducationLondon School of Economics and Political Science, Menlo-Atherton High School, Stanford University, The Wharton School

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Highlights

“It’s models, it’s chips, it’s research, and it’s the application across all of our platforms,”
observer.com2026-05-21Source
“One area we care immensely about is delivering for everyone in a high-quality way, especially when models were hallucinating,”
observer.com2026-05-21Source
“If you wake up in the middle of the night and your child has a fever, and you want to give Tylenol, it better be right. Google stands for quality, and that was very important to us.”
observer.com2026-05-21Source
“People come into their careers with a preordained notion of what work they're going to do. Given that the world is dynamic, not static, they miss seeing things that otherwise might be extraordinary.”
CNBC2025-11-21Source
“A star is someone who is in my face, because I want them to challenge me in different ways,”
CNBC2025-11-21Source
“I don't want people who process. I want people who think,”
CNBC2025-11-20Source
“The next big thing starts with search,”
Fortune2025-05-19Source
“It’s about a radical rethink of ‘What is your business?’”
ruthporat.org2025-03-06Source
“There’s an overused expression [that is meaningful nonetheless]: ‘You’re not going to lose to AI; you’re going to lose to the person who is using AI.’”
ruthporat.org2025-03-06Source
“You do not want to be the one that’s waking up too late and realizing that you’re behind in your industry,”
ruthporat.org2025-03-06Source
“Google started as ‘10 blue links’ and then evolved to tech search, then to voice search, and now multimodal search,”
ruthporat.org2025-03-06Source
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“I always said, 'What is my highest and best use?'”
CNBC2025-11-21Source
“Sometimes I feel like a Morgan Stanley trainee,”
CNBC2025-11-20Source
“Being CFO of one of the most important companies in the world has been the opportunity and responsibility of a lifetime,”
Fortune2024-07-24Source

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