Ruth Porat
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Oct 29, 2026
David FaberHOST
We have to look at
Jim CramerHOST
it straightforward during the Ruth Porat days where we would see, wow, people going to the site and they're making a lot of money off those people.
Jim CramerHOST
Now, it seems like people who will go to the site, they may not make that much money, which we now know could be considered existential.
Jim CramerHOST
We had been so enamored of the cloud business, which, by the way, Thomas Carrion did a fantastic job.
Brian CubellisHOST
The overlords.
Jackson MikalicHOST
Um, so yeah, this, this piece, Alphabet's, um, Ruth Porat, president of Alphabet.
Jackson MikalicHOST
Here's a few things I'll rattle off data-wise, and then we can get into it.
Jackson MikalicHOST
So Alphabet raised its 2026 spending plan on data centers and AI hardware to as much as $205 billion.
Claire StapletonGUEST
You know, and I think that actually, you know, reports here vary at whether or not Google just sort of put the work, you know, with a partner agency or something like this and sort of just kept doing it or is back where now everybody's just competing for military contracts again 'cause it's just such a huge, like cash cow.
Claire StapletonGUEST
But, and same with the walkout where I think, you know, it was such a shock that, you know, the women of the company were saying like, "We- we're really unhappy with how you handle, you know, sexual harassment allegations, and how kind of the culture of HR seems to protect abusers, and the women who raise complaints end up left cold and/or are kind of like managed out." So I think that there was, you know, some attempt, some faith to listen to that, manage it in a, in a way as well as like, you know, the, the CFO of the company, Ruth Porat, you know, she was out there at conferences the weeks after the walkout saying, "I walked out myself.
Claire StapletonGUEST
We, we celebrate the women of the company doing this." So, you know, Google was, was definitely trying that tact, which was just basically to say, "This is part of our mission.
Claire StapletonGUEST
This is part of our c- our culture is, you know, we wanna make things better." I think that it- the, the retreat from that has, has been pretty shocking, but in ways that, you know, also kinda make sense, which is that the f- from, you know, all that we can understand, the executives were genuinely freaked out that they'd given the employees too much psychological voice, space, you know, all these other things, and that, you know, the...
Wendy BarnesSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Thanks for having me, Diane.
Ellie AustinHOST
So is the biggest risk in AI borrowing too much or falling behind? Alphabet president and CIO Ruth Porat spoke with Fortune's editor-in-chief Alison Chantel yesterday on our main stage here at the summit.
Ellie AustinHOST
And Porat shared a key learning from her experience during the 2008 financial crisis.
Ellie AustinHOST
She told us to find your biggest vulnerability and fix it before the crisis hits.
Ellie AustinHOST
And a really good illustration of that is how we're bookending the next three days.
Ellie AustinHOST
So we start with Ruth Porat from Google, president, CIO of Google and Alphabet.
Ellie AustinHOST
We end with Hailey Bieber, who obviously is the, uh, celebrity kind of h- incredibly high-profile figure, but also the founder of Rhode, which has just been acquired by e.l.f. Um, tell us a bit about who's in the room at this summit, 'cause it's something that we think about very carefully.
Emma HinchliffeGUEST
The room is one of the most impressive rooms that I've ever been in, every single year, year after year.
Ellie AustinHOST
Obviously, there's a space for that, but it's not particularly what we do at, at Most Powerful Women.
Ellie AustinHOST
And so what am I excited about this year? Well, we have a opening conversation with our editor-in-chief, Alison Chantel and Ruth Porat-
Kristin StollerGUEST
Mm
Ellie AustinHOST
... who is the president and CIO of Google.
speaker_1HOST
Those require a massive upfront investment, an incredibly high tolerance for risk and failure, and a totally different operational logic.
speaker_0HOST
So they brought in a new CFO, Ruth Porat, who was known as an absolute powerhouse on Wall Street.
speaker_0HOST
And under her watch, they didn't just change the strategy, they completely ripped up the organizational structure.
speaker_1HOST
They really did.
27 MINS LATER
speaker_0HOST
Oh, Joe from Friendly's Market.
speaker_1HOST
Yes.
speaker_1HOST
Joe is the newly hired CFO at a regional supermarket chain called Friendly's Market.
speaker_1HOST
They are suffering from declining sales across the board.
Jenny JohnsonGUEST
That's a key, to be curious.
Jenny JohnsonGUEST
What can it do? And I think Ruth Porat said it really, really well, which is you're not gonna lose your job to AI, you're gonna lose it to somebody who's better at using it than you.
Jenny JohnsonGUEST
And so if you're a person who isn't curious and pushing yourself to play, even in your own personal life with these LLM models out there, you're gonna be left behind because you're not gonna be comfortable in knowing how to use them.
Jenny JohnsonGUEST
I'll give you an example of it.