25 years at Google, 9 as CEO of YouTube, created AdSense and was a driver of the DoubleClick acquisition. Just a hell of a career. Maybe the single person who did the most for Google in that time frame?<p>Editing to add that her garage was Google's first office
I hope whoever takes over implements one simple change to the YouTube algorithm:<p>If a user subscribes to a channel, show the user videos from that channel on their front page.
YouTube has gotten consistently worse under her leadership in my experience. Creators have been squeezed dry with less and less revenue, ads are obnoxious and terrible, and experiments like shorts are badly implemented, make little money for creators and should be aborted.<p>YouTube 10 years ago was a place for people to do what they loved and build a following, now it's just a click bait farm where everyone is gaming the algorithm with the same thumbnails, the same content, and even hawk their own ads/partnerships because YouTube revenue can't support them anymore.<p>Good riddance IMHO. I hope whoever comes next actually focuses on creators and their needs.