Susan Wojcicki
Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist
NBC News
4.5 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | My thanks as always for clicking and listening along with us. |
| 0:08.2 | My guest this week, a little bit different, years to movie stars, rock stars, got a CEO. |
| 0:13.0 | In fact, one of the most powerful women on the planet, Forbes. |
| 0:16.5 | In fact, currently has her at number seven on its list of the world's most powerful women. |
| 0:21.0 | She is the CEO of YouTube. |
| 0:23.4 | Her name is Susan Wajiski. |
| 0:25.4 | She and I got together at YouTube headquarters outside San Francisco to talk about her |
| 0:29.6 | rise to the top of Silicon Valley, beginning with a computer science class. |
| 0:34.4 | She took during her senior year of college that completely changed the trajectory of her |
| 0:38.9 | life. |
| 0:39.9 | Also, the famous story of her as a young woman trying to cover the cost of her mortgage |
| 0:45.9 | renting out her garage in Menlo Park, California to a couple of Stanford students who had an |
| 0:51.5 | idea. |
| 0:52.5 | Their names were Larry and Sergey and they were working in her garage, little did you know, |
| 0:57.3 | on something called Google. |
| 0:58.8 | Yes, Google was born in her garage. |
| 1:01.2 | She actually left her job at Intel, became employee number 16 at Google. |
| 1:05.6 | And while she was at Google, she convinced Larry and Sergey that would be good idea to |
| 1:11.8 | buy a little startup called YouTube. |
| 1:13.8 | This is around 2005, 2006. |
| 1:16.5 | It was a gamble at the time. |
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