{"id":158240,"date":"2023-02-16T14:26:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-steps-down-will-assume-advisory-role-at-google-and-alphabet"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:26:29","slug":"youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-steps-down-will-assume-advisory-role-at-google-and-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-steps-down-will-assume-advisory-role-at-google-and-alphabet","title":{"rendered":"YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down, will assume advisory role at Google and Alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-steps-down-will-assume-advisory-role-at-google-and-alphabet3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Susan Wojcicki is stepping down as YouTube CEO after nine years at the helm. In a letter to employees (first published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2023\/2\/16\/23602636\/youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-leaving-neal-mohan\">Recode<\/a>), Wojcicki says that she\u2019s leaving in order to \u201cstart a new chapter focused on my family, health and personal projects I\u2019m passionate about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, after nearly 25 years here, I\u2019ve decided to step back from my role as the head of YouTube,\u201d Wojcicki wrote. \u201cThe time is right for me, and I feel able to do this because we have an incredible leadership team in place at YouTube.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wojcicki will be replaced by Neal Mohan, YouTube\u2019s longtime chief product officer. Mohan came to Google with the tech giant\u2019s DoubleClick acquisition in 2007, and \u2014 as his responsibilities grew \u2014 he was promoted to SVP of display and video ads before assuming his current role in 2015. As for Wojcicki, she says that she\u2019ll take on an \u201cadvisory role\u201d across Google and Alphabet, offering counsel and guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Wojcicki is stepping down as YouTube CEO after nine years at the helm. In a letter to employees (first published by Recode), Wojcicki says that she\u2019s leaving in order to \u201cstart a new chapter focused on my family, health and personal projects I\u2019m passionate about.\u201d \u201cToday, after nearly 25 years here, I\u2019ve decided to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}