Recode Decode: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki talks with Recode's Kara Swisher in this live interview recorded at Lesbians Who Tech in San Francisco. In this episode: Why YouTube turned off comments for tens of millions of videos recently; its latest attempts to keep kids safe; the criteria it weighs when making a policy change; toxicity in YouTube's comments; what would it do if it lost section 230 immunity?; "the only way to solve this, at the end of the day, is going to be with a combination of human and machines"; diversity in YouTube's leadership; the Google walkout; should Google put a non-executive employee on its board?; contractors in tech; and do the leaders in Silicon Valley "get it?" Thanks to Microsoft Azure for sponsoring this episode. Get started with a free account and 12 months of popular free services at Azure.com/trial today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:19.8	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-large of Recode.
0:25.2	You may know me as someone who used to make viral videos until the health inspectors shut
0:28.8	me down, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from
0:32.9	the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:34.6	Today, we're going to play a live interview I recently did with Susan Wajiski, the CEO
0:38.8	of YouTube who have known for a very long time.
0:41.8	We spoke at the Lesbians who tech summit in San Francisco about a lot of things including
0:46.4	disinformation, fake news, and all the other issues around the video service.
0:52.2	Let's take a listen.
0:55.2	Susan and I have known each other.
0:56.4	We just figured out for about 20 years.
0:59.2	We met a long time ago.
1:00.2	I'll tell this story very quickly.
1:03.1	Her and it was Larry Page.
1:05.0	Who else was with us?
1:06.0	David Drummond.
1:07.0	David Drummond, who's the...
1:08.0	Megan.
	...

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