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Tracing the Lucknow origins of Youtube's new CEO Neal Mohan
Updated On: 26 February, 2023 09:04 AM IST | Mumbai | Yusra Husain
YouTube has a new CEO and the news is making a bunch of people in Lucknow grin ear to ear. mid-day chats up Neal Mohan’s classmates and teachers to put together a picture of the introvert everyone knew would strike big
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(Left to right) Justine Ezarick, Cassey Ho, MatPat, Kingsley, Glozell Green, Neal Mohan (then Chief Product Officer, YouTube), FouseyTube, Gigi Gorgeous, Joey Graceffa, Casey Neistat ring in the Nasdaq Stock Market closing bell at NASDAQ in New York City in 2016. Pic/Getty Images
You’d be forgiven for assuming that the top boss of global online video sharing platform YouTube, is a social media addict. But, irony thy name is Neal Mohan. The newly appointed CEO of a business that generated $28.8 billion in 2021 is determined to challenge definitions. Mohan is only seldom active on two social media platforms, Twitter and LinkedIn. He remains largely hidden from the public eye. The 49-year-old, who took over from Susan Wojcicki who served the parent company Google for 25 years, was until last week its Chief Product Officer.
Mohan was born in Lucknow to an engineer father Dr Aditya Mohan and mother Deepa, and spent his early years in the US where his father was pursuing a PhD in soil testing from Purdue University, Indiana. But fate brought Mohan back to Lucknow in 1986, along with family, and he joined the seventh standard at St Francis’ College (SFC), an educational institution with a legacy dating back to 1885. He schooled here till Class XII before joining Stanford University for a BSc in Electrical Engineering.
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