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☆ Female leadership in tech is falling
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Mikaela Cohen | Kevin Travers | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

With the backdrop of Women's History Month, Tacy Byham, chief executive officer of DDI, an international human resources and leadership development consultancy company, says it's no surprise the number of women in tech leadership roles is still low. Her company's research over the past 20 years shows that while the number of women in technology leadership roles has been rising, it's only ever reached 33%. But across the entire tech sector, the percentage of women in tech leadership roles is trending down, currently at 28%, according to DDI's 2023 Global Leadership Forecast, which surveyed 1,827 human resources professionals and 13,695 business leaders from over 1,500 companies around the world. Compounding the problem is the fact that on average, most companies don't offer leadership training to employees until nearly four years after they start their role. "These tasks don't always give them the points they need to help them move from a mid-level leader to an executive-level leader," she said.

☆ Twitch cofounder says he’s stepping down as CEO to raise his baby: ‘I want to be fully there for my son as he enters this world’
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Aidan Pollard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Twitch CEO Emmett Shear announced he is stepping down to care for his newborn son. "Twitch has been like my family, the place I've spent more of my waking hours than anywhere else," Shear wrote on Twitch's blog Thursday. "So it is with great poignancy that I share my decision to resign from Twitch as CEO," Shear wrote. "I want to be fully there for my son as he enters this world and I feel ready for this change to tackle new challenges. "Thank you, everyone, for your support, your critical thoughts, your trust, and your help," Shear wrote.

☆ YouTube lifts restrictions on Trump's account
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Lauren Feiner | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Google -owned YouTube will allow former President Donald Trump's account to post new videos as of Friday, lifting restrictions put in place following the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In 2021, then-YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said Trump's restrictions would be lifted when it believed the risk of real-world violence had subsided. The account was not terminated from the site, but could not upload new videos under the restrictions. The company also noted that Trump's posts on YouTube tend to differ from those on other platforms, often including reuploads from news networks. As of Friday, Trump's YouTube account has more than 2.6 million subscribers.

☆ How these 3 sisters grew up to become highly successful CEOs and a doctor: 'It's helpful to realize the world is often wrong'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Believing in yourself has immeasurable value, says Anne Wojcicki. "It's helpful for people to realize the world is often wrong," she tells CNBC Make It. "When you're swimming upstream, it's hard and you're going to have people telling you it's a bad idea or you're not capable," Anne says. Many of those close relationships remain: Anne says she and her two sisters all still "have the same friends from early elementary school." 1 best piece of advice for regular investors, do's and don'ts, and three key investing principles into a clear and simple guidebook.

☆ Wojcicki sisters among seven women pioneers getting their own Barbie doll
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York (CNN) Barbie isn't one to be pigeonholed into a profession just because she's a woman. She's had an impressive 200 careers on her resume — doctor, astronaut, computer engineer, CEO and even presidential candidate. Among them are the Wojcicki sisters — Susan (longtime CEO of YouTube), Anne (CEO of at-home DNA testing company 23andME) and Janet (professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco). Susan Wojcicki announced in February that was "stepping back" from her leadership role at YouTube after nearly a decade of running the video-sharing platform. She later became Google's 16th employee and has worked at the company for nearly 25 years.

☆ A generation of high-profile women tech leaders have stepped aside. What’s next?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The tech industry has now lost an entire generation of trailblazing women leaders and replaced them mostly with men. And in the wake of the pandemic, women leaders in corporate America more broadly are more likely than ever to quit, according to the most recent Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.Org. Now that she’s departing, Big Tech is facing a new reckoning over its failure to promote and support women leaders, and what this could mean for the next generation of women in the industry. “Without women in the C-suite who have come before them, it could make this transition period tougher for next generation women leaders,” Kray said. “I think that what she achieved and what she modeled will be something that will live on beyond the fact that now we don’t have a female Big Tech CEO.”

☆ I was an early YouTube creator. Here's how CEO Susan Wojcicki improved the site in 10 years, helping me make money and even find a community of close friends.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down after nearly ten years at the helm. Under her leadership, the video platform cemented itself as a favorite of online creators. YouTube Shorts, the company's direct competitor to TikTok, recently surpassed 50 billion daily views and opened up monetization to creators. Still, under Wojcicki's tenure the video platform was rarely mentioned in discussions about the ills of social media, and the CEO was not regularly hauled in front of Congress like other tech leaders. Under Wojcicki's tenure, YouTube expanded monetization and released a slew of new ways to make money, like a merchandise shop.

☆ 'It's a huge concern': Senior-level women are calling it quits after decades climbing the career ladder
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Some of the world's most powerful women are calling it quits. To give some context, for every woman stepping into a director-level leadership role, two are choosing to leave, says Alexis Krivkovich, McKinsey senior partner and an author of the joint Lean In and McKinsey "Women in the Workplace" report. The pattern has the potential to unwind decades of progress toward gender equity and increased female leadership in the workplace, she tells CNBC Make It. "They're meeting their goals and being successful, and some are choosing to leave before they get burned out," Workman adds. The problem remains that there are too few women in high levels of leadership, Krivkovich says: "Lots of men leave their positions, but we analyze and scrutinize when women leaders do in a different way.

☆ Esther Wojcicki raised 2 successful CEOs and a doctor—here's why she thinks good grades don't matter
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The grades you got in school don't really matter, says educator and bestselling author Esther Wojcicki. "The number one way I think we need to [encourage creative students] is we need to cut the importance of grades." Wojcicki's decades of teaching high school taught her that good grades are overrated, and not a significant indicator of a child's future success. Yet they're an important factor in how the country's education system views students' success and determines their future opportunities, she said in Dubai. "Everybody is fighting for grades and those grades lead to college, and if you don't have those grades you cannot go," Wojcicki said.

☆ As accomplished, high-profile female leaders step back from their careers, I wonder whether any woman can have it all
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Marguerite Ward | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

I don't fault them; they're women who achieved much and then, it appears, made the best decision for themselves. Women face bias when they're leaders. McKinsey & Company recently said it found that "compared with men, senior women leaders report higher rates of burnout, chronic stress, and exhaustion." A report last year from LeanIn.org and McKinsey said women leaders were leaving their companies at the highest rate ever; the organizations started tracking the data in 2015. "You're not promoting enough women into the leadership ranks, and now you have more women leaving leadership roles," Thomas told CNBC Make It in October.

☆ Meet Anne Wojcicki: the sister of departing YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, and a self-made multimillionaire who founded the genetic testing giant 23andMe
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Bethany Biron | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Anne Wojcicki is the sister of Susan Wojcicki, who announced she was stepping down as YouTube's CEO on Thursday. Anne Wojcicki co-founded the genetic testing company 23andMe after a career on Wall Street. While the focus right now is on Susan Wojcicki — who announced that she was stepping back from her role as YouTube's longtime CEO on Thursday — her younger sister Anne, is a tech industry veteran in her own right. Anne Wojcicki co-founded the genetic testing company 23andMe in 2006, and took the company public in June 2021 through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. Here's a look back at Anne Wojcicki got her start and built a genetic-testing empire.

☆ YouTubers and creator-economy insiders react to the sudden CEO shake-up, and describe the challenges that will define the future of the platform
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Amanda Perelli | Marta Biino | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down, and being replaced by chief product officer Neal Mohan. YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki's sudden announcement on Thursday that she is stepping down has sent shockwaves through the creator community. Wojcicki has been YouTube's CEO since 2014, and joined parent company Google in 1999 as its first marketing manager. Chief product officer Neal Mohan will be taking over her role, having previously been in charge of key products like the short-video platform YouTube Shorts and launched subscription services YouTube Premium and YouTube TV. "Susan understood from the beginning the importance of content creators on YouTube," said Alessandro Bogliari, CEO and cofounder of The Influencer Marketing Factory.

Not only have marketers been pausing ad spend en masse, YouTube is also battling TikTok for audiences and content creators. Industry insiders credit Mohan with building out the ad products that made YouTube Google's main growth engine for so many years. Tal Chalozin, CTO and cofounder of the adtech company Innovid, said that Mohan's expertise stretches across all of YouTube's ad business, particularly adtech. "He was leading product for the launch of YouTube Premium and YouTube TV, and the growth of YouTube Music," said one former YouTube employee. "It's now Neal and YouTube against TikTok, and that's the existential battle for short-form video monetization and creators," Norman said.

☆ YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Is Stepping Down After Nearly a Decade in the Role
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Joseph Pisani | Miles Kruppa | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Susan Wojcicki , the chief executive of YouTube, said she is stepping down after nearly a decade in the role. Ms. Wojcicki said in a blog post Thursday that she plans to focus on her family, health and personal projects. She’ll also have an advisory role at Google and Alphabet Inc., which owns YouTube.

☆ YouTube CEO Wojcicki, one of the first Google employees, steps down
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

The change of guard comes as YouTube's advertising revenue fell for the second straight quarter amid intense competition for viewing time with short-form video services such as TikTok and Facebook's Reels, and streaming services like Netflix. One of the most prominent women in tech, Wojcicki said she will focus on "family, health, and personal projects", and plans to take on an advisory role at Alphabet. She was previously senior vice president for ad products at Google and became the CEO of YouTube in 2014. Mohan, a Stanford graduate, joined Google in 2008 and is the chief product officer at YouTube where he been focusing on building YouTube Shorts and Music. He previously spent nearly six years at DoubleClick, a company Google acquired in 2007, and later served for about eight years as senior vice president of display and video advertising at Google.

☆ YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she's stepping down
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks during the opening keynote address at the Google I/O 2017 Conference at Shoreline Amphitheater on May 17, 2017 in Mountain View, California. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said Thursday that she's stepping down. Wojcicki, 54, joined YouTube as the CEO in 2014. Wojcicki said she agreed with Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to, in the longer term, take on an advisory role across Google and Alphabet. "When I joined YouTube nine years ago, one of my first priorities was bringing in an incredible leadership team."

☆ YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down, the company shared in a blog post Thursday. Chief product officer Neal Mohan will be the new head of YouTube. Wojcicki became CEO in 2014 after moving over from Google. Wojcicki became CEO in 2014, coming from Google, YouTube's parent company. Under her leadership, YouTube launched products like YouTube Gaming, YouTube Music, YouTube Premium, and YouTube TV.

☆ Long-time YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stepping down
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailLong-time YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stepping downCNBC's Deirdre Bosa reports on a change at the top of YouTube.

☆ I raised 2 successful CEOs and a doctor. Here’s the parenting style that turns kids into narcissists
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Esther Wojcicki | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A lot of parents today think the best way to educate kids is to be in total control. This is the foundation of "helicopter parenting," a very involved parenting style in which kids have little or no control of their daily activities. Studies have indicated that kids with helicopter parents who have high expectations for academic performance, or who overreacted when they make a mistake, tend to be more self-critical, anxious and vulnerable. But my biggest problem with helicopter parenting? And if their kids fail, they fail as well.

☆ How monk turned motivational speaker, Jay Shetty, and his wife are building a growing empire of wellness teas— with backing from New Money Ventures
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The sparkling tea brand has raised funding from LA-based firm, New Money Ventures. Liquid Death, a canned water brand, was valued at $700 million during its Series D round in October 2022. In April 2022, Beyonce invested in Lemon Perfect, a lemon water brand. In November 2022, the organic birch water brand Treo announced a partnership with the singer Jason Derulo. Joyo launched direct-to-consumer on January 25, so customers can now order products online to any location in the United States.

☆ Parent who raised 2 successful CEOs: Here's the No. 1 thing I wish I did differently
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Anthony Cortez | Sam Rega | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailParent who raised 2 successful CEOs: Here's the No. 1 thing I wish I did differentlyLooking for parenting strategies that help children grow into successful adults? Esther Wojcicki's resume includes author of "How to Raise Successful People" and mother of three highly accomplished daughters: Susan, CEO of YouTube; Janet, a professor of pediatrics; and Anne, co-founder and CEO of 23andMe. Despite her children's success, there's one thing Wojcicki wishes she'd done differently.

☆ Larry Page, Sergey Brin Post-Google Lives: Investments, Yachts, Islands
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Hugh Langley | Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +33 min

Even before their retirement from Google, Page and Brin relied heavily on their respective family offices to bring order to their worlds. The Bay Area headquarters of Koop, Larry Page's family office, is nondescript and gives little indication of the billionaire's empire. Insider; Marianne Ayala/Insider Show less Bayshore Global Management, Sergey Brin's family office, is based in Palo Alto and has a bit more of a public face. Insider; Marianne Ayala/Insider Show lessThe difference in styles holds true for Brin's family office, Bayshore Global Management. The CEO of Page's family office is Wayne Osborne, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church who attended Princeton Theological Seminary.

☆ I raised 2 successful CEOs and a doctor. Here's the No. 1 skill I wish more parents taught their kids today
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Esther Wojcicki | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Developing skills like curiosity, kindness and emotional intelligence at a young age will help kids succeed as adults. But there's one skill that parents aren't teaching their kids enough of today: self-regulation. When kids learn to self-regulate, they better understand the importance of time and how to manage their own behaviors and actions. But it's not so much the access kids have that worries me. How parents can help kids self-regulate

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailParenting expert: The No. 1 thing every parent should teach their kidsLooking for parenting strategies that help your children develop and grow into successful adults? Esther Wojcicki explains the importance of working as a team and how any parent can easily implement this practice right now. It's a simple mindset that can have a strong impact. Wojcicki's resume includes author of "How to Raise Successful People" and mother of three highly accomplished daughters: Susan, the CEO of YouTube; Janet, a professor of pediatrics; and Anne, co-founder and CEO of 23andMe.

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