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Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: The Internet 'could use a lot more women'

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6538 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was one of the first women hired at Google, and today she is the only female CEO within Google. She says the internet "could use a lot more women." Interview recorded October 18, 2016. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In this episode of Boss Files, Time magazine dubbed her the most powerful woman on the internet.

0:06.2

YouTube CEO Susan Wojicki was one of the first women hired at Google in the early 90s.

0:11.7

That was after she, luckily, rented out her garage to Google founder, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin.

0:17.9

Well, today, she is the only female CEO at Google, helping grow YouTube

0:22.4

to over a billion users a month. She and her team are certainly changing the way we watch

0:27.8

content and changing television as we know it. She's also pushing for more women in top

0:33.3

roles at tech companies. All of this while leading the charge for a generous parental leave policy.

0:40.2

I sat down with her in October at the Fortune Most Powerful Women's Summit.

0:44.8

You've been described by Time magazine as the most powerful woman on the internet.

0:49.6

How does that sit with you? Well, I think there are a lot of powerful women on the internet,

0:56.0

but I wish there were more. I think the internet really could use a lot more women.

0:59.0

And one of the things that I've tried to do is use the position that I'm in to try to encourage

1:04.0

the next generation of girls to think about the internet as a career opportunity and learn

1:09.0

the skills so we can have even more women on the

1:12.7

internet in the future and creating the internet and changing the internet and growing and changing

1:17.8

our world. Let's not forget Ada Lovelace, right? I mean the first computer programmer in the

1:21.3

world was a woman. People seem to have forgotten that. Yeah, I think people have forgotten

1:25.7

the role that some early women played in computer

1:29.5

science and Ada Lovelace is a great example of that.

1:34.3

And I mean, I think there have been lots of women that have really made a difference.

1:40.1

Grace Hopper is a great example of that too.

1:42.6

And so there have been many talented women over history

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