YouTube CEO Neal Mohan: ‘Still in early days of our growth… want to be the best place to create, share and watch videos’

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Neal Mohan took charge YouTube in February 2023, after one of Google's founding employees, Susan Wojcicki, decided to step down from the role.A Stanford graduate, Mohan became part of Google, YouTube's parent company in 2008 and before becoming CEO, was chief product officer of the company.Speaking to Bloomberg about the video streaming platform's vision for the future, outlook on artificial intelligence and creators' economy, Mohan was optimistic that this is “still early days" for YouTube.Track | Markets LIVE Updates here“I want to be a place where we are the best place to create, to share, to watch, a video that you can think of regardless of where you are in the world or what device you're on. That's our that's that's my vision.

That's the vision for YouTube," Mohan shared. When asked about making YouTube bigger, Mohan said he saw the platform as “its own unique thing" and that the company is “still in the early days of our growth story".“YouTube's really kind of its own sort of unique thing.

We're not a social media platform, we're not traditional media in the sense that we're not linear television. We're really sort of our own thing.

And so if we live up to that vision, we think we're really still in the early days of our growth story and fulfilling what our mission is, which is to give everyone a voice and show them the world." Mohan believes.He also acknowledged YT surpassing Netflix as the biggest streamer in the world, adding that it is “getting recognized as that platform on television screens".Also Read | Tata Motors share price gains as brokerages maintain bullish stance; stock up 7% in one week“We just surpassed a billion hours of watch time on living room screens. And the Nielsen ratings is certainly