We interviewed the CEO of YouTube

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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On this episode of the Colin and Samir Show, we sit down with YouTube's CEO Neal Mohan. We cover how YouTube is paying creators, the challenges of AI, Neal's advice for creators and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Creators that take their eye off that ball, that's where the problem starts.
0:03.9	What do you know, Neil, or what did you know?
0:06.2	Is that a realistic future for creators?
0:09.4	That is going to happen?
0:11.1	Don't get any ideas from this, Neil.
0:12.4	Would you want to choose amongst 10 artificially generated?
0:15.1	No.
0:15.4	It doesn't necessarily feel like a priority to YouTube.
0:19.1	Why?
0:20.5	The magic of YouTube is that we can upload videos to the platform and get paid through a revenue share model.
0:26.4	And that technology that allows for that to happen was built in large part by Neil Mohan.
0:31.0	We had an hour with Neil at the YouTube offices in New York City.
0:34.4	So we asked as many questions as we could, and we gave him our feedback on the
0:37.8	platform. In this episode, we talked to Neil about the impact of shorts on YouTube. We also talk about
0:42.9	our concerns about AI generated content, and we ask him what creators need to know about the future
0:48.4	of YouTube. All right, here's our conversation with YouTube CEO Neil Mahan.
1:05.9	When I first started making YouTube videos in 2010, to my Indian parents, it was a very confusing career choice.
1:08.5	And I think it's like such a monumental moment in my career to be sitting here
1:14.0	with the CEO of YouTube and not only the CEO of YouTube, but the Indian CEO of YouTube.
1:18.7	And I just wanted to share that for my family, like, knowing that I was doing this was such a
1:23.4	big marker in my career of success. So I'm really grateful for you coming on the show and being a
1:30.3	part of this. Well, first of all, I appreciate you saying that very much. I try to explain sort of what I do
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