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She quite literally got this far because of family. Geez I wonder why Youtube remains one of the most underperforming media assets.

Edit: SV is full of nepotism.



Not true. Her sister met Sergey because they were in her garage. She got the job fair and square.


This is like saying Ron Wayne should run the freaking Mac division because he was there first. She’s just not that smart. She only got around on her dad’s legacy prior to Google. She added zero value to Youtube.


How do you figure? She worked for Google for nearly 15 years before becoming the CEO of YT. If anything it sounds like she was peter principled.


Well given that Youtube gets its money from making the user experience terrible via ad bombardment... that sounds like a good thing?

They'd get more revenue by breaking things like uBlock origin being able to completely remove all ads. Not something we really want them to do I think.




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