YouTube CEO Neal Mohan wants to share the wealth

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

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🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

YouTube turns 20 next year, which makes it positively ancient by internet standards. Yet the world’s biggest video site is still incredibly relevant for huge swaths of the globe, even if it doesn’t get the media attention other sites generate. It’s also the only major social platform that routinely shares revenue with the users who create the stuff that powers the site. I think that if Google executives took a truth serum they’d tell me they’re jealous of places like TikTok and Instagram, which also have giant businesses but share much, much less of the wealth with their users - but CEO Neal Mohan insists that’s not the case. In this conversation we spend quite a bit of time talking about that business model, and much more: Like how Mohan thinks about AI; why he’s also in the cable TV business; and how he’s thinking about his company’s role in the upcoming US election, given the possibility of more election denialism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:43.1	the chief correspondent at Business Insider covering
1:45.5	tech and media. And today we've got a conversation about tech and media. It is a conversation
1:49.9	with the CEO of YouTube. Neil Mohan, we recorded this yesterday. That's Tuesday. You're hearing us on
1:56.5	Wednesday or later. So you'll hear us talking about some of time travel here. We're talking about an event
2:00.4	that hasn't happened, but now it has. Anyway, you'll figure it out. This is a good conversation about stuff that I care deeply about. I think you will too. Now here's me and Neil Mohan. I'm here with Neil Mohan. He is the CEO of you too. Welcome, Neil Mohan. He is the CEO of YouTube. Welcome, Neil. Hey, Peter. Nice to be with you. And sort of welcome. Thanks for having me. I'm here with Neil Mohan. He is the CEO of YouTube. Welcome, Neil. Hey, Peter. Nice to be with you.
2:19.7	And so welcome. Thanks for having me. I'm here in one of the many, many giant spaces you guys own in New York City.
2:25.5	Yeah, welcome. Where you are in the venue where we're going to be having our meet on YouTube.
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