I'll go to places really remote and then I'll see someone they'll be like hey I learned

Korean on YouTube right and so the opportunities for technology have just changed our lives in so many

ways and I recognize that there are all these questions about responsibility but I'm overall really optimistic about our opportunities to help people all over the world have access to better information and learning and ultimately live better lives as a result.

I'm so excited to talk today with Susan Wojiski. She's the CEO of YouTube and she's just had an amazing career in tech and she's done it without really attracting all the hatred that seems to circle so many of the powerful people in tech.

She doesn't really have any enemies.

Welcome to people I mostly admire with Steve Leavitt.

She's managed to get herself into great situations and then to make incredible decisions.

Everything she touches seems to turn to gold. Is it her intellect? Is it her instincts? I've never spoken with it before. I'm really curious to hear what makes

Susan tick. Now the wild card today is that given COVID lockdown we're both doing these interviews from home.

I've got my six kids at home and she's got her five kids and her husband at home and

we will see what kind of chaos might ensue.

It's my great pleasure to get to talk today

with Susan Wojiski, without a doubt

one of the most powerful people in tech.

So you grew up living on the Stanford campus,

you were the daughter of a physics professor at Stanford and a high school teacher.

You went to Harvard, you majored in history and lit,

and then as I understand it, you decided you wanted to get a PhD in economics of all things. Is that really true?

Yes, yes, it's really true.

Where did that desire come from? Oh, I had taken the introductory

economics class as a undergraduate. Once I started it I realized how interesting it was as a field and just loved it. So I wound up getting

a master's in economics and I had the idea of going on and getting a PhD and then continuing

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