On Thursday, Susan Wojcicki, the Chief Executing Officer of YouTube, announced her departure in a blog post after nine years in charge of the world’s most popular online video website.
chief product officer of YouTube, Neal Mohan, will take over as CEO, she officially confirmed. Wojcicki is currently 54 and was originally a senior vice president for brand promotion at Google prior to actually taking over as Chief executive officer of YouTube in the year 2014. Wojcicki worked briefly at Intel as well as Bain & Company prior to joining Google.
“Today, after nearly 25 years here, I’ve decided to step back from my role as the head of YouTube and start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about,” said Wojcicki.
Source: theguardian.com
Susan Wojcicki will be recalled as Google’s first owner, despite being among the highly regarded female executives in this male-dominated technology sector.
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Wojcicki loaned the garage of her Menlo Park, California which is the home to Co-founders of Google Larry Page & Sergey Brin for 1,700 USD per month fairly soon after they integrated their web browser into a firm in 1998.
Page and Brin both were 25 at the time and spent five months refining their search engine in Wojcicki’s garage prior to actually shifting Google into a larger and official office and afterward convincing their previous landlord to consider working for them.
“It would be one of the best decisions of my life,” Wojcicki wrote in the announcement of her departure.
Source: theguardian.com
she will indeed remain with YouTube momentarily to assist in the shift of management, and in the long run had also consented with Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai, to consider taking an advisory position all over Google & Alphabet, providing “counsel and guidance”.
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Susan Wojcicki is the newest in a long line of highly advanced Technology executives to leave their positions, with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stepping down from his position in 2021, CEO of Pinterest Ben Silbermann having left in 2022 as well as Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg resigning in 2022. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal was also fired in 2022 as an aspect of Elon Musk’s takeover of the firm.
YouTube has been dealing with the recent resurgence of TikTok, a brief video app that surpassed the Google-owned video streaming service in screen time at the end of 2022.
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