A cyclist rides past Google Inc. signage near the entrance to the Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California. Photographer: Michael Short/Bloomberg
YOUVE probably never heard of her but shes one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley.
Shes known for her grit and toughness which is lucky because she is tasked with bringing discipline to one of the worlds most prominent and ambitious companies.
In 2015, Ruth Porat took the job as the chief financial officer at Google with a difficult mandate to oversee the restructuring of the company under the name Alphabet, and to tighten up many of its more expensive pie-in-the-sky enterprises.
Despite the enormity of the task, so far shes proved her weight in gold.
Since taking the job, Goog…
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