Indian-origin Neil Mohan is YouTube's new CEO

After 9 years of serving as the CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki is now stepping down to make room for the Indian-origin Neil Mohan, who will be the new CEO of the world's largest video streaming site. She was one of Google's first employees and has spent almost 25 years working for parent company Alphabet Inc.

In a blog post, Susan mentioned that  she is stepping down to focus on "family, health, and personal projects I'm passionate about."

Former Chief Product Officer of YouTube Neil Mohan earned his electrical engineering degree from Stanford. Neil was also a part of the team that launched YouTube TV, Premium, and Shorts.

With this move, Neil will join a growing group of elite CEOs of US-based multinational corporations who are of Indian descent, including Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, Shantanu Narayen, the CEO of Adobe, and Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet.

YouTube's brown roots go way back to the very beginning of the platform. Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube, was a German and Bangladeshi-American software developer working in the United States. He was also the first user to upload a video to YouTube.