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Google Confirms Susan Wojcicki Is New YouTube Head
- joelrunyon 13y agoIf anyone else thought that last name looked really familiar it's Sergey Brin's sister-in-law.
- cycrutchfield 13y agoI think you mean Sergey Brin's ex-wife's* sister. * Technically separated, not yet divorced
- joelrunyon 13y agoTechnically they're just living apart - not even legally separated [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki
- w1ntermute 13y agoWell Brin has certainly moved on: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408421/Amanda-Rosenberg-accused-sleeping-way-Sergey-Brin-affair.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408421/Amanda-Rosen...
- GuiA 13y agoOpen marriages are a thing.
- blah32497 13y agoHow do you pronounce it...?
- georgechen 13y agoWo-jis-ki.
- magic_haze 13y agoThe wiki for her sister mentions it's actually /woʊˈdʒɪtski/ woh-jit-skee
- packetslave 13y agoShe pronounces it somewhere in between the two. The 't' in 'jit-skee' isn't very hard or emphasized.
- almosnow 13y agoEventually, everything stays on family
- smacktoward 13y agoMeritocracy™!
- throwwit 13y agoI hear ya... but there is also something to be said about those who seek power within an organization, Signal to Noise ratio has got to be difficult.
- paulrademacher 13y agoShe's been with the company since the beginning.
- MrZongle2 13y agoI wonder if she had to create a Google+ account in order to hold the position.
- psbp 13y agoWhy are HN comments becoming so much more like comments on crappy tech blogs and reddit?
- Einstalbert 13y agobecause 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.
- derefr 13y agoThe only place HN really accepts attempts at humor (or unfounded speculation, for that matter) are as tossed-off epilogues to more substantive and serious commentary. Picture an HN comment as an (extremely short) journal article: you have to summarize your data and experimental method first--and then, optionally, can state some conclusions.
- MrZongle2 13y agoProbably because all the people who complain online about witty comments -- but have none of their own to contribute -- have been driven here.
- prelud 13y agomore ads on youtube?
- Super_luigi 13y agoso who's going to run ads now? Neal Mohan most likely
- packetslave 13y 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 13y agoI'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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki
- robk 13y agoSusan introduced Anne to Sergey.
- joelrunyon 13y agoI 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.
- robk 13y agoSusan'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.
- yapcguy 13y agoHooray, 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.
- nostrademons 13y agoThat 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. ;-)
- judk 13y agoI thought Google's ranking algorithm was PageRank.
- nostrademons 13y agoNot at all. PageRank is a way of assessing relevant importance of pages; the only input is link structure. If that was the sole ranking algorithm, every query would give the same results.
- judk 13y agoExplain 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?
- foobarqux 13y agoIs she the only female executive left at Google?
- romanovcode 13y agoWho cares?
- foobarqux 13y agoPeople 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.)
- esrauch 13y agoOut of curiosity, how many were there before?
- foobarqux 13y agoI don't know exactly. Off the top of my head Shona Brown Marissa Mayer Sheryl Sandberg
- haldean 13y ago"pushed out" is hardly fair in relation to Marissa Mayer; she left to become the CEO of a huge tech company, which was a pretty significant promotion.
- judk 13y agoSheryl Sandberg is crying all the way to the bank as well, I assume.
- lawnchair_larry 13y agoShe was actually demoted within Google before she left (not that I'm trying to support OPs claim).
- bane 13y agoMaybe 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.