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 i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David when you went to cornell, your grades were obviously very good. You applied to law school at harvard. You got into Harvard Law School. Was the class half women and half men or . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg in those ancient days, i went to law school from 1956 to 1959. In my entering class at Harvard Law School, there were over 500 in the class. Nine of us were women. A big jump from martys class, he was a year ahead of me. There were five women in his class. And today, the Harvard Law School has about 50 women. [applause] david in your Harvard Law School class, you did extremely well, and you got onto the harvard law review, and you were near the top of your class, maybe first or tied for first in your cl
All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you a question at the beginning. How does it feel to get up in the morning and know that 330 million americans want to know the state of your health that day . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg how does it feel . Encouraging. [laughter] as cancer survivors know, that their disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, its not universal. [laughter] when i had pancreatic cancer in 2009, there was a senator, whose name i dont recall, but he said i would be dead within six months. That senator is now no longer alive. [laughter] [applause] david but you cant remember his name . Justice ginsburg no, i dont remember his name. David but your current view is that as long as
Recognize me if my tie was fixed, but ok. Just leave it this way. All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . When you went to cornell, your grades were obviously good. Very good. You applied to law school at harvard. You got into Harvard Law School. Was the class half women and half men . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg in those ancient days, i went to law school from 1956 to 1959. In my entering class at Harvard Law School, there were over 500 in the class. Nine of us were women. A big jump from martys class, he was a year ahead of me. There were five women in his class. And today, the Harvard Law School has about 50 women. [applause] david in your harvard law class, you did extremely well and got onto the harvard law review, and you were near the top
Fixed, but ok. Just leave it this way. All right. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you a question at the beginning. How does it feel to get up in the morning and know that 330 million americans want to know the state of your health that day . [laughter] Justice Ginsburg how does it feel . Encouraging. [laughter] as cancer survivors know, that their disease is a challenge, and it helps to know that people are rooting for you. Now, its not universal. [laughter] when i had pancreatic cancer in 2009, there was a senator, whose name i dont recall, but he said i would be dead within six months. That senator is now no longer alive. [laughter] [applause] david but you cant remember his name . Justice ginsburg no, i dont remember his name. David b