Google Confirms Susan Wojcicki Is New YouTube Head

because that's exactly where people like me came from. Not sure what to do differently here. Maybe it's a matter of poor opinion mixed with horrible sense of humor.

MrZongle23• 12 years ago

Probably because all the people who complain online about witty comments -- but have none of their own to contribute -- have been driven here.

prelud• 12 years ago

more ads on youtube?

Super_luigi• 12 years ago

so who's going to run ads now? Neal Mohan most likely

packetslave2• 12 years ago

"Meanwhile, back at the ads and commerce division that Wojcicki is leaving behind, her co-leader Sridhar Ramaswamy will now be in charge of the whole unit."

antoko• 12 years ago

I'm pretty sure you all have this back-asswards. Susan's garage is where google was headquartered in the early days (1998). She didn't get the job because she is Sergey's wife's sister. Sergey met his wife through one of his first employees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki

robk2• 12 years ago

Susan introduced Anne to Sergey.

joelrunyon3• 12 years ago

I never said that was the case - I just thought I recognized the name before & it was from her sister. I didn't mean to imply anything about her not getting the job because of merit. Sorry if that didn't come across.

robk2• 12 years ago

Susan's quite sharp. She ran the product team for ads (AdWords and AdSense) in the early days and made some pretty big moves, including pre-buying premium ad content on NYTimes and other sites to make the content network attractive to advertisers when it was initially seen as lower-quality goods. She's very quantitative.

yapcguy2• 12 years ago

Hooray, once again it's the generic boilerplate executive or product manager who gets the big bucks, while the PROGRAMMERS are stuck toiling away.

Thank god for people like John Carmack and Linus Torvalds, great programmers who are recognised as leaders and given the respect that this profession so badly needs.

nostrademons2• 12 years ago

That Susan is quite smart in no way takes away from the programmers who are also quite smart. Search leadership is engineers all the way down, from Larry (invented PageRank) to Alan (started as a hardware engineer at Compaq) to Amit (one of the leading academic figures in information retrieval before he invented Google's ranking algorithm) to Ben (authored much of the early utility code for Google).

But hey, if you'd like to give props to the programmers toiling away on Google, I'll be happy to take 'em. ;-)

judk3• 12 years ago

Explain how Susan is "generic"? Do you think Google would have had its success sellings ads (or whatever) to make more programmers into millionaires than any other company has done, if someone else had been in her place?

foobarqux3• 12 years ago

Is she the only female executive left at Google?

romanovcode• 12 years ago

Who cares?

foobarqux3• 12 years ago

People who are interested in gender relations in business?

It was pretty unusual for a company to have had so many female executives and even more unusual to have them all pushed out after Page became CEO.

(Thanks for the senseless down-vote.)

pvarangot• 12 years ago

Maybe females at Google who are interested in becoming managers?

psbp3• 12 years ago

Why don't you google it? http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/

Yes.

bane• 12 years ago

Maybe she'll start fixing all the horrible ui garbage that's either accumulated or been left unattended. Youtube is barely usable, I only use it due to its ubiquity.

Google Confirms Susan Wojcicki Is New YouTube Head

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