Susan Wojcicki is stepping down as CEO of YouTube after 9 years, efficient instantly. She has named Neal Mohan, who has served as Chief Product Officer for the corporate for the previous seven years, as her successor.
“I’ve determined to step again from my position as the pinnacle of YouTube and begin a brand new chapter targeted on my household, well being, and private initiatives I’m obsessed with,” she wrote in a firm weblog put up.(Opens in a brand new tab) Wojcicki will now tackle an advisory position throughout Google and Alphabet.
In her put up, Wojcicki lauds Mohan’s work launching the very profitable YouTube TV, in addition to helming YouTube Music, Premium, and Shorts. She additionally notes that Mohan has led the corporate’s Trust and Safety crew, which is able to develop into much more vital as “the guarantees of AI,” as she places it, develop into a possible space of development.
It’s the top of an period for YouTube, which has weathered public scrutiny over its dealing with of hate speech, content material moderation, and misinformation throughout Wojcicki’s tenure. When she joined the platform in 2014, it had simply crested one billion customers and “YouTubers” had been nonetheless thought-about oddities. Now YouTube hosts 2.5 billion customers worldwide, and YouTube creators have made full-fledged careers out of their channels.
A good friend of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Wojcicki was one of many earliest staff at Google and in her personal phrases, “managed advertising and marketing, co-created Google Image Search, led Google’s first Video and Book search, in addition to early elements of AdSense’s creation, labored on the YouTube and DoubleClick acquisitions, served as SVP of Ads,” earlier than heading up YouTube.
