Susan Wojcicki stepping down as CEO of YouTube [View all]
Source: CBS News
Susan Wojcicki is stepping down as CEO of YouTube after spending nine years as the head of the social media platform. In a blog post Thursday, Wojcicki said that she would "start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects." Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product officer, will become the new CEO.
Wojcicki said Thursday that she would help with the CEO transition process and later take on an advisory role across Google and Alphabet. Wojcicki detailed how earlier in her career she joined Google, the owner of YouTube, when the search engine was being built by "a couple of Stanford graduate students," Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
"I saw the potential of what they were building, which was incredibly exciting, and although the company had only a few users and no revenue, I decided to join the team," she wrote. "It would be one of the best decisions of my life."
Wojcicki went on to have various responsibilities, including managing marketing, co-creating Google Image Search, leading Google's first Video and Book search, as well as early parts of AdSense's creation, working on the YouTube and DoubleClick acquisitions, and serving as senior vice president of Ads. Google purchased YouTube in 2006.
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