YouTube Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki will step down after nearly a decade of leading the Google-owned video site, a major shake-up for one of the world’s most important entertainment platforms.
Wojcicki has been a part of Google since the company’s beginnings in 1998 — it was in her parents’ Silicon Valley garage that Larry Page and Sergey Brin began building the search giant. Brin later married her sister, and Wojcicki stayed with the company, rising through the ranks and holding a number of major roles before being appointed head of YouTube in 2014.
that was posted on YouTube’s corporate blog. She will be replaced by Neal Mohan, YouTube’s head of product, who first came to Google through the company’s acquisition of advertising tech platform DoubleClick in 2008.Her departure is a major changing of the guard for Google. Wojcicki was seen by many Google employees as more or less a member of Brin and Page’s family, given her long relationship with them and status as one of the company’s founding employees.
Wojiciki’s departure follows a string of other high-profile leaders who have left big technology companies at a time when the industry is struggling to diversify its workforce. Earlier this week, Meta Chief Business Officer Marne Levine
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