YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after 9 years YouTube: CBS MorningsYouTube\u2019s longtime CEO, Susan Wojcicki, has announced that she\u2019s leaving her position at the video-sharing company after leading the platform for nine years. On February 16, 2023, Susan Wojcicki announced her departure from YouTube after leading the platform as its CEO for nine years. The \u201cpersonal update from Susan\u201d was initially sent to YouTube staff earlier that morning, but was publicly posted to the site a short while later. In the update, Wojcicki revealed her reasons for stepping down from YouTube, claiming that she wants to focus on her personal life and family, as well as a few passion projects in the interim. Susan Wojcicki reveals reason for stepping down from YouTube \u201cToday, after nearly 25 years here, I\u2019ve 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\u2019m passionate about,\u201d she explained. Wojcicki also revealed the site\u2019s new leader who will be taking her place \u2014 Neal Mohan, who will be stepping in as SVP and new head of YouTube. Mohan has served as YouTube\u2019s Chief Product Officer and helped launch some of the platform\u2019s biggest features like YouTube TV, YouTube Music, YouTube Premium, and YouTube shorts, on top of leading its Trust and Safety Team. \u201cHe has a wonderful sense for our product, our business, our creator and user communities, and our employees,\u201d Wojcicki wrote. \u201cNeal will be a terrific leader for YouTube.\u201d Including her time at YouTube, Wojcicki has spent 25 years with Google and will continue to play an advisory role for the search engine giant and Alphabet. \u201cBeyond that, I\u2019ll still be around, so I\u2019ll have a chance to thank the thousands of people from all across the company and the world who I\u2019ve worked with and learned from,\u201d she concluded. \u201c\u2026I always dreamed of working for a company with a mission that could change the world for the better. Thanks to you and your vision, I got the chance to live that dream. It has been an absolute privilege to be a part of it, and I\u2019m excited for what\u2019s next.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after 9 years YouTube: CBS MorningsYouTube\u2019s longtime CEO, Susan Wojcicki, has announced that she\u2019s leaving her position at the video-sharing company after leading the platform for nine years. On February 16, 2023, Susan Wojcicki announced her departure from YouTube after leading the platform as its CEO for nine years. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}