In the world is ruth parat. She started an as investment banker at Morgan Stanley. And recruited a way to be the c. F. O. Of google and now of alphabet. Influence. Mous i think she would be a terrific candidate for secretary of the treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for that position. During this period of time, google has done quite whelm fall bet has done quite well. Your stock has gone up. By the time you became the c. F. O. The stock is up over 00 . So done quite well under your leadership. Im curious. Are more people doing searches now during this covid period o time than ever before . Or are people not spending as much time searching . No, people are spending a lot of time searching. We have trillions of searching, precovid, post covid. Its really the nature of searches that changed. And so early in the crisis, people really migrated to shifting for information about the disease, what they needed to know, all information about covid. You then saw people shift to, ok, how
And imposing Surveillance Systems on its own citizens as europe and china are apparently drifting further apart while the u. S. And beijing fight out a bitter trade war here on to the point we ask old rival how dangerous is china. We. Are thanks so very much for joining us here on to the point where my studio guests are political scientists t. V. Kirsten tough blow who believes that china will do away with a liberal democracy if the west allows it to also with us is journalist felix levy who argues that europe must be hard and firm in its dealings with the chinese leadership just like the chinese themselves and a warm welcome to 2 over alexander girl who say as long as theyre a concentrate. Camps in china can never be normal relations with that country. Thank you all 3 for those initial comments felix id like to begin with you it has not been a good week for already troubled relations between the e. U. And china one Senior Member of the European Parliament a green member of the Parliam
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David she started as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, rose to be the cfo, and was recruited away to be the cfo of google and now the cfo of alphabet. In that role, she has enormous influence at that company and has done a terrific job of making certain their Balance Sheet works well and that they are much better organized in the financial sense. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for some time unless the next president of the United States says i would really like her to be secretary of treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for the position. David so during this period of time, google has done quite well and alphabet has done well. Your stock is a more than 20 this year and i should say, from the time you became cfo, the stock is up over 200 and market cap is up over 200 . They have done quite well under your leadership. But i am curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 period of time more than ever before or are people not sp
Women in the Business World is ruth porat. She started as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, rose to be the cfo, and was recruited away to be the cfo of google and now the cfo of alphabet. In that role, she has enormous influence at that company and has done a terrific job of making certain their Balance Sheet works well and that they are much better organized in the financial sense. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for some time unless the next president of the United States says i would , really like her to be secretary of treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for the position. So during this period of time, google has done quite well and alphabet has done well. Your stock is up more than 20 this year and i should say, from the time you became cfo, the stock is up over 200 and market cap is up over 200 . They have done quite well under your leadership. But i am curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 period of time more tha