Tracing the Lucknow origins of Youtube's new CEO Neal Mohan through his teachers and mates

YouTube has a new CEO and the news is making a bunch of people in Lucknow grin ear to ear. mid-day chats up Neal Mohan’s classmates and teachers to put together a picture of the introvert everyone knew would strike big (Left to right) Justine Ezarick, Cassey Ho, MatPat, Kingsley, Glozell Green, Neal Mohan (then Chief Product Officer, YouTube), FouseyTube, Gigi Gorgeous, Joey Graceffa, Casey Neistat ring in the Nasdaq Stock Market closing bell at NASDAQ in New York City in 2016. Pic/Getty ImagesYou*d be forgiven for assuming that the top boss of global online video sharing platform YouTube, is a social media addict. But, irony thy name is Neal Mohan. The newly appointed CEO of a business that generated $28.8 billion in 2021 is determined to challenge definitions. Mohan is only seldom active on two social media platforms, Twitter and LinkedIn. He remains largely hidden from the public eye. The 49-year-old, who took over from Susan Wojcicki who served the parent company Google for 25 years, was until last week its Chief Product Officer. Mohan was born in Lucknow to an engineer father Dr Aditya Mohan and mother Deepa, and spent his early years in the US where his
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