Interview | Ruth Porat, CFO at Alphabet and Google $GOOG $GOOGL

Ruth Porat, CFO at Alphabet and Google

“You’re at the table because people want your voice. It’s easy to forget that. Don’t keep second guessing. If you have a point of view, the reason you were hired is because people want to hear it.”⁣
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Ruth Porat, CFO at Alphabet and Google, was interviewed  for the final View from the Top for this academic year at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Failing to invest for the long term could be one of tech’s greatest vulnerabilities, she said, and advised students to keep thinking about investing for the long haul.

⁣”What I’ve seen is that if you don’t invest in the long term, you’re sowing the seeds of your own destruction.”⁣ In the video, Porat discusses her experiences while at Morgan Stanley $MS (morganstanley.com) and later, Google $GOOGL, $GOOG (google.com). Stanford Graduate School of Business video above published May 21, 2019.

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Jamie Dimon, Chairman, President & CEO of JPMorgan Chase $JPM

Jamie Dimon, Chairman, President, and CEO of JPMorgan Chase

Stanford Graduate School of Business video above published Nov 9, 2017: Jamie Dimon, the Chairman, President, and CEO of JP Morgan Chase, at the inaugural session of the 2017 - 2018 View From The Top speaker series at Stanford GSB. Dimon discusses topics ranging from the dangers of bureaucracy to the validity of Bitcoin, to how dangerous a temper can be in the business world.

When asked how he ensures a fair and equal workplace, he said, “When you have an environment of trust and respect, people can shine. Go out of your way to make everyone accepted and you’ll build a great company."

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Stanford Seed Profiles of Purpose: Africa’s Silicon Valley (video)

Profiles of Purpose: Africa’s Silicon Valley

Video above published Jun 20, 2017, by Stanford Graduate School of Business: Ehi Binitie, co-founder of Rancard (domain: rancard.com), shares his journey of solving phenomenal problems that many parts of the world never get to see. Rancard Solutions Limited headquarters: Accra, Ghana.

See: Stanford Seed | Stanford Graduate School of Business | gsb.stanford.edu: "Seed, the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies, is working to end the cycle of global poverty."

Profiles of Purpose video playlist:

Profiles of Purpose playlist above:

1. Profiles of Purpose Intro: The Problem Solvers  4:44
2. Yes She Can  4:14
3. Putting Safety on the Front Burner  3:45
4. The Art of Transformation  4:55
5. Africa’s Silicon Valley  4:06
6. How to Feed a Nation  4:55
7. The Boy from the Streets  3:45
8. A Business with Soul  3:43
9. An Ace Entrepreneur  4:19

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Stanford Seed West Africa
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Tech Companies, Hackathons, & Future Stars (podcast)

Tech companies face a harsh reality, you're only as good as your latest product. The scramble to identify and lure the best talent has taken recruiters to unusual places. In the above podcast, Bloomberg Technology's Lizette Chapman visits a recent hackathon at Stanford, watching as high school and college students code through the night, and corporate representatives and investors watch, eying the kids who will become future stars.

See also: These Hackathon Hustlers Make Their Living From Corporate Coding Contests | Bloomberg.com (Apr 4, 2017).

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Happy Birthday, Internet!

Above: ARPANET logical map, March 1977 (by ARPANET [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

ARPANET went LIVE between UCLA and Stanford Research Institute on this day in 1969:

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. ARPANET was initially funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. Packet switching was based on concepts and designs by Americans Leonard Kleinrock and Paul Baran, British scientist Donald Davies and Lawrence Roberts of the Lincoln Laboratory. The TCP/IP communications protocols were developed for ARPANET by computer scientists Robert Kahn and Vint Cerf, and incorporated concepts by Louis Pouzin for the French CYCLADES project. (Wikipedia)

ARPANET facts:

• Location: United States
• Protocols: NCP, TCP/IP
• Established 1969; 46 years ago
• Current status: Evolved into NSFNET
• Commercial? No
• Funding: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (U.S. government)

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Jack Ma, Alibaba, Stanford GSB 2015 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year

Jack Ma, Alibaba Group: Stanford GSB 2015 Entrepreneurial Company of the Year
Video Above: at the 38th annual ENCORE Award event on September 24, 2015, the Stanford Graduate School of Business honored Alibaba Group. Jack Ma, Lead Founder and Executive Chairman, discussed entrepreneurship in a fireside chat (starts at 11:20 in video above) with Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang, BS/MS ’90. (Published on Sep 30, 2015)

Stock exchange: symbol-- NYSE: BABA

Principal domain names:

• alibaba.com
• alibabagroup.com

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Stanford's William Barnett on Leading Innovation by Design (video)

Leading Innovation by Design -

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor William Barnett explains how innovative companies discover new approaches to business. He highlights the key differences that make some companies more likely to deliver innovations, and shows how leaders can shape their companies to be more innovative. Published on May 15, 2015

Bill Barnett on Strategy: The Secret: ".... Right answer: Design your organization so that it develops new capabilities. We know that some companies learn much better than others. Make it your job, as a leader, to help your organization be better at learning. Structure your organization so that your people must engage with important, unsolved problems. Establish routines that allow for failure and reward those who try to discover – regardless of the ultimate outcome. Build a culture that values discovering over knowing, becoming over being. Lead by design, and don’t forget the secret: There is no secret."

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Notes: 

A high variance system allows high rate of failures and innovative success.

Existing technology or disruptive technology?

Venture Capital: rate of failures is a key positive metric.

The fear of being a fool vs the hope of being a genius--do you want consensus or an environment safe to risk being a fool?

Upper right in graphic below is what venture capitalists and innovators want:

VCs and Innovators want to be in that non-consensus "right" position (upper right above) 

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