YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki resigns
Wojcicki is stepping down from her position after 25 years at the helm of the technology company to "begin a new chapter focused on my family.”
The technology company YouTube lost its CEO, Susan Wojcicki. The director decided to step down from her position after 25 years at the helm of the technology company because, according to a press release, she wants to devote herself to her personal projects:
The video platform has already lined up her successor: Neal Mohan. The new CEO will have the support of his predecessor who will stay on to help with the transition. This will involve working with YouTube teams, training workers and meeting with creators.
In addition, she will continue to stay involved in Big Tech. She will work as an advisor to both Google and its parent company. She announced that was able to come to an agreement with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai:
Wojcicki’s early days at Google
Susan Wojcicki has been associated with Google from almost the beginning. As she explained in the release, she joined a "a couple of Stanford graduate students who were building a new search engine." They were Larry and Sergey, the creators of Google. That was the beginning of her career. She remembers that time fondly:
Business Insider España reported that the entrepreneur rented her garage to Google's co-founders when the search engine was still just an idea. Once the company took off, she co-created Google's image search engine, designed AdSense and, most importantly, proposed that the creators engine acquire YouTube. The purchase was closed in 2006. Wojcicki became the video platform's CEO in 2014.
During her time as CEO, YouTube innovated and launched products such as YouTube Gaming, YouTube Music, YouTube Premium, YouTube Shorts and YouTube TV. In addition, she also worked on coming up with new policies to deal with hate content and to combat fake news.