Ruth Porat

Wall Street continues to admire Porat for helping Alphabet focus on what it’s good at as opposed to audacious so-called moonshot projects. Under her watch, the company is investing in practical areas likely to make an immediate financial impact, like cloud computing and video streaming. That’s one reason shares have grown a whopping 100% year over year and the company is valued at nearly $2 trillion.

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