Neal Mohan to be new YouTube CEO after Susan Wojcicki quits

YouTube chief executive and one of the first Google employees, Susan Wojcicki, is stepping down from her role in the tech giant that started in her garage 25 years ago, she said in a personal update posted on the video-sharing platform on Thursday. Wojcicki will be replaced by insider Neal Mohan, an Indian-American. The change of guard comes as YouTube is vying for viewing time with short-form video app TikTok and streaming services like Netflix.
One of the most prominent women in tech, Wojcicki, 54, said she will focus on “family, health, and personal projects”.Wojcicki is one of Google’s longest-serving employees and one of the highest-profile female executives in Silicon Valley. After lending her garage to the company’s founders, she joined as an early marketing manager and rose through the ranks of Google’s advertising business. In 2014, Google’s then-CEO, Larry Page, tapped Wojcicki to run YouTube. Wojcicki brought a renewed focus on challenging the TV ad market, boosting YouTube’s creators and its ties with media companies.
Mohan, a Stanford graduate, joined Google in 2008 and is the chief product officer at YouTube where he been focusing on building YouTube Shorts and Music. He has been Wojcicki’s top deputy for years, moving over from Google’s ads business to YouTube in 2015. He was widely seen as her natural successor. Mohan has also worked with Microsoft and sits on the board of Stitch Fix and genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe.