Susan Wojcicki

Susan Wojcicki is one of Google's longest-serving employees and one of the highest-profile female executives in Silicon Valley.

Neal Mohan, chief product officer, will take the lead as the senior vice president and new head of YouTube. Wojcicki said she agreed with Alphabet CEO Sundar ...

Google and YouTube had to pay $170 million in 2019 to settle a case where the video platform allegedly violated children's privacy laws. During her tenure, she oversaw the company's rapid expansion to become the largest video platform in the world. [Sundar Pichai](https://www.cnbc.com/sundar-pichai/) to, in the longer term, take on an advisory role across Google and Alphabet. Wojcicki joined Google in 1999 and oversaw the design and build of Google's advertising and analytics products for 14 years. "The time is right for me, and I feel able to do this because we have an incredible leadership team in place at YouTube," she noted. [work out](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/03/early-google-employee-filmed-the-companys-garage-office-in-1998.html) of her Menlo Park, California, home upon founding Google.

Hi YouTubers,. Twenty-five years ago I made the decision to join a couple of Stanford graduate students who were building a new search engine. Their names were ...

I also want to thank Larry and Sergey for inviting me on what has truly been the adventure of a lifetime. But for now, I want to thank Sundar for his leadership, support and vision over the years. As for me, in the short term, I plan to support Neal and help with the transition, which will include continuing to work with some YouTube teams, coaching team members, and meeting with creators. For all the YouTubers I’ve had the privilege to work with, you have done so much to make this platform better over the years. I’ve spent nearly 15 years of my career working with Neal, first when he came over to Google with the DoubleClick acquisition in 2007 and as his role grew to become SVP of Display and Video Ads. I saw the potential of what they were building, which was incredibly exciting, and although the company had only a few users and no revenue, I decided to join the team.