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Indian origin Neal Mohan become new CEO of Youtube Susan Wojcicki steps down.

Susan Wojcicki, CEO of Google and one of the company’s original employees, announced on Thursday that she was leaving the position after 25 years with the tech giant she helped found in her garage. Insider Neal Mohan will take over for Wojcicki.

According to reports, Wojcicki informed the YouTube staff of her resignation in a memo. Wojcicki stated that YouTube’s outstanding leadership group has enabled her to feel empowered to do this and that  time is right. In 2014, she was promoted from her position as Google’s senior vice president for advertising products to become YouTube’s CEO.

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“When I joined YouTube nine years ago, one of my first priorities was bringing in an incredible leadership team.” Susan Wojcicki said, announcing that Mohan would take over for her. Neal Mohan, the new SVP and CEO of YouTube, was one of those leaders. Working with Neal has occupied nearly 15 years of my professional life.

Who is Neel Mohan?

He has established a top-notch product and UX team, played key roles in the introduction of some of our biggest products, such as YouTube TV. YouTube Music, Premium, and Shorts, and has served as the team leader for our Trust and Safety department. Ensuring that YouTube upholds its duty as a global platform. She said that Mohan has a “fantastic sense for our business, our employees, our user and creator communities, and our product. Neal will do a great job of leading YouTube.”

Mohan, a Stanford alumnus who joined Google in 2008, has been working to develop YouTube Shorts and Music as the company’s chief product officer.  Serving on the boards of Stitch Fix and the genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe, Mohan has also worked for Microsoft. He will join a growing group of CEOs of US-based multinational corporations who are of Indian descent. Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Adobe, and Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet. Before leaving her position as CEO of PepsiCo in 2018, Indra Nooyi had worked there for 12 years. After the news, Alphabet shares barely changed for the day, falling less than 1%.

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