Susan Wojcicki Exiting As YouTube CEO; Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan To Step Up
deadline.comLongtime YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced today she’s stepping down as CEO of YouTube, “to start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about.” Neal Mohan, the company’s chief product officer since 2015, will step in as SVP and head of the company, a division of Google.
Wojcicki joined Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brinn what was nearly the start of it as the Stanford grad students were building a new search engine that is now among the largest, most powerful and most valuable companies in the world that now goes by Alphabet.
She created a series of key products for Google and helped orchestrate its acquisition of YouTube in 2006 in a stock deal worth $1.6 billion.
She served as CEO of YouTube for the past nine years, one of the the highest ranking female executives in the business sought after for her broad knowledge of technology and media.
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