From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.

YouTube is a juggernaut.

The platform is winning the streaming war with Netflix.

It's made creators like Mr. Beast and Miss. Rachel into huge stars, and it's owning

the video podcast space. Add to that, it's growing distribution business with YouTube TV

and the deals with both the NFL and the Oscars, and its clear YouTube has few, if any, peers,

which is why I wanted to sit down with CEO Neil Mohan. Mohan has been in charge of

YouTube since 2023 and has overseen its rapid growth, but that hasn't come without controversy.

Just this week, a jury in California found the company negligent, alongside Mehta,

for harming a teenager's mental health through its addictive features.

That verdict, which YouTube told us they planned to appeal, came down after Mohan and I talked,

but we still had a lengthy discussion about YouTube's impact on children and us all.

Here's my conversation with YouTube CEO, Neil Mohan.

I am very excited to be here today at YouTube. I wanted to start with a statistic.

Mr. Beast, of course, the biggest content creator on YouTube, said that humanity now spends 2% of its waking hours on YouTube.

Is the goal to make it 3%?

So I know Jimmy very well.

He and I have not done that math together, so I don't think I can validate his math or not.

I think our goal, I mean, look, we measure ourselves by this concept of whether viewers, all of us, the two billion people that come to YouTube every single day, are satisfied

by their experience on YouTube. And so that is how we orient decisions around the product or the

business. And we have grown. You know, we're the number one streamer, I think, for three

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