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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#82So much hate for her on all fronts, yet she made the most rewarding media platform today on the internet. Any creator or consumer who has half a brain should realize the magnitude of the feat and how unobvious it is that YouTube exists as it does today.
YouTube was an acquisition. Susan had zero input in its creation, she was working at Google at the time.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#83So much hate for her on all fronts, yet she made the most rewarding media platform today on the internet. Any creator or consumer who has half a brain should realize the magnitude of the feat and how unobvious it is that YouTube exists as it does today.
I disagree. She was the CEO and was clearly not great from the perspective of users, in part because the real customers are advertisers. People who say "um, ok" when a CEO at a user-hostile corporation leaves are not haters. I know there are plenty of actual haters but I don't see "so much hate".
Also from Wikipedia: "YouTube was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. The trio were early employees of PayPal, which left them enriched after the company was bought by eBay. Hurley had studied design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign."
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#84> focus on family
Maybe just wants kids?
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#85- increasingly ignores your search keywords, instead shoving unrelated stuff at you - removed ability to sort videos by date - removed dislikes what else.....youtube UX has being getting worse for a few years.
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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#86That crazy push for 10min and longer videos was a sole reason why tiktok happened.
I still remember that there used to be short and super informative videos before but now everything is so stretched out with low info density
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#87So much hate for her on all fronts, yet she made the most rewarding media platform today on the internet. Any creator or consumer who has half a brain should realize the magnitude of the feat and how unobvious it is that YouTube exists as it does today.
She didn't build anything. She got Google to buy it.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#88So much hate for her on all fronts, yet she made the most rewarding media platform today on the internet. Any creator or consumer who has half a brain should realize the magnitude of the feat and how unobvious it is that YouTube exists as it does today.
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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#89I believe it is related to this movement to subpoena big tech about “collusion with government” https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/jim-jordan-subpoenas-alphabe... Either she is being blamed, or she is deeply guilty and wants to try to avoid the publicity, or they anticipate this will become extremely ugly. Or sundar is blaming her for lining him up for a firing squad. Or she is a liability due to her past work. Regardle…
Nobody is falling on the sword for that circus. The "Twitter Files" were not very meaningful.
After 25 years and being worst case a hundred-millionaire, what's the point?
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#90- increasingly ignores your search keywords, instead shoving unrelated stuff at you - removed ability to sort videos by date - removed dislikes what else.....youtube UX has being getting worse for a few years.
I am personally completely unable to understand the decision to remove the ability for me to search a youtuber's videos. I didn't even know this was something a video website could take away!