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Google CFO Ruth Porat ’75 on Math, Music, and Being Yourself - M-A Chronicle

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This is the second article in Bears Doing Big Things, a weekly column celebrating the stories of notable M-A alumni. Read last week’s article here. Ruth Porat is one of the most powerful women in the world: Chief Financial Officer at Google and its parent company, Alphabet. She graduated from M-A in 1975. During her M-A days, she made the twice daily trek from her house in Ladera to school on her bike, which she remembered was “great exercise, because I lived way up a steep hill.” Porat’s favorite class in high school was math. She explained, “I viewed math then—and now—as a fun puzzle with logical patterns. If you like math, great. If you aren’t yet sure, or think you are sure that you don’t like math, I strongly encourage you to keep at it because you can’t escape it in your life or career. Data is the best way to make a point—anchor a discussion in data and you will have a much more productive decision-making process. I promise once you crack the code on patterns and frameworks, it

Bears Doing Big Things · Features · Recent Stories Google CFO Ruth Porat ’75 on Math, Music, and Being Yourself September 26, 2022 Caroline Pecore This is the second article in Bears Doing Big Things, a weekly column celebrating the stories of notable M-A alumni. Read last week’s article here . Ruth Porat is one of the most powerful women in the world: Chief Financial Officer at Google and its parent company, Alphabet. She graduated from M-A in 1975. During her M-A days, she made the twice daily trek from her house in Ladera to school on her bike, which she remembered was “great

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