Recording, if you could just come to the microphone by the white pillar so we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion, and lastly, once everything is done if you could please fold up your chairs and place them against the pillar. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. [laughter] tonight im pleased to introduce jared cohen, the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet inc. As well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. The New York Times best selling author with eric schmidt of the new digital age and has written the children of jihad. One of the great lessons of american politics that ive learned is tale of two brothers. One went off to sea and one became Vice President. Neither was heard from ever again. [laughter] however, in rare case the Vice President is not relegated to obscurity. Namely, when the president dies. And his newest, best New York Times best selling book, accidental president s, cohen investigates these men. Who ascende
[laughter] one of the most powerful 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 the normans influence at the company and has done a terrific job of making sure 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 like her to be secretary of treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for the position. During this period of time google has done quite well , and alphabet has done well. Your stock is up 20 and i should say, from the time you became cfo, the stock is up over 200 and market cap over 200 . Then quite well under your leadership. But i am curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 time than ever before or are people
David one of the most powerful 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 alphabet. She has enormous influence and has done a great job in making certain their Balance Sheet works well and they really are better organized. I have no doubt she is going to be a power at alphabet, unless the next president says i would like her to be secretary of treasury. She will be a terrific candidate for that position. During this time google has done quite well and alphabet has done well. Your stock is up 20 and i should say, from the time you became cfo, the stock is up over 200 and market cap over 200 . Done quite well under your leadership. Im curious, are more people looking at doing searches during this covid19 time than ever before or are people not spending as much time searching . Ruth people are spending a lot of time searching. We have trillions of searches ever
Women in the Business World is ruth porat. 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
David one of the most powerful women in the Business World today is ruth porat. She rose to be the cfo of google and now alphabet. In that role she has enormous influence at that company and has done a terrific job in making certain that the Balance Sheet works well and that they really are much better organized. I have no doubt she will be a power at alphabet for a long time unless the next president says i would like her to be secretary of the treasury. She would be a terrific candidate for that position. During this period of time, google and alphabet have done quite well. Your stock is up more than 20 this year and from the time you became the cfo, the stock is up over 200 , so its done quite well under your leadership. Im curious, are more people looking at doing searches now during this covid19 period of time than ever before, or are people not spending as much time searching . Ruth no, people are spending a lot of time searching. We have trillions of searches every year, precode