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25 years at Google, 9 as CEO of YouTube, created AdSense and was a driver of the DoubleClick acquisition. Just a hell of a career. Maybe the single person who did the most for Google in that time frame?

Editing to add that her garage was Google's first office

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YouTube, AdSense, and DoubleClick? Wow. All those are Google's money-making products. Both YouTube and AdSense helped countless content creators across the globe. Not everyone goes to CS school or other graduate programmes for various reasons. These content creators make a good living too, I guess (at least top 5-10% content creators makes good living, but I don't any data to backup). So in a way, if you make money from YouTube or AdSense, then Susan played a big role for sure. Also, regardless of what HN think of Google Ads and Google's privacy policies, it fundamentally helped some those content creators, including support and development for other free Google products such as Gmail, Maps, Search and others stuff etc.

Indeed! But I'm still pondering why she didn't put this announcement on her YouTube channel. It could be:

A. the message was more effectively conveyed as text

B. all the comment spam in her January 2022 video (people asking for a new CEO, etc.)

C. possibility of inopportune ad placement as she is introducing Neal Mohan

D. the people who produced her previous videos are gone after the layoffs

I'm not sure but the SEC has strange rules about where you can announce material information about the business. YouTube may not be one of those places.

her parents' garage, which might be how her sister got to know then later married Sergey?

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