硅谷传奇人物、被誉为“谷歌之母”的油管前CEO苏珊·沃西基（Susan Wojcicki）在与肺小细胞肺癌抗争两年后，于8月10日离世，享年56岁。苏珊·沃西基是谷歌的第16号员工，也是其首批20名员工之一。
苏珊·沃西基的逝世也让整个科技界感到悲痛，她的丈夫丹尼斯·特罗珀在社交媒体上宣布了这一消息后。谷歌CEO桑达尔·皮查伊、首席科学家杰夫·迪恩、苹果CEO蒂姆·库克等等科技大佬们纷纷发文悼念，表达对她的敬意和哀悼。
从谷歌“房东”到谷歌“女财神”，再到美国商界女性领袖。硅谷最有权力的女性领导人之一、YouTube首席执行官苏珊·沃西基与2023年2月16日突然宣布辞职。在为谷歌效力24年、掌舵YouTube 9年之后，时年54岁的苏珊表示将开始新的篇章，专注于家庭、健康和她热衷的个人项目。
苏珊的经历相当传奇，谷歌在她家车库里创办，第一个营销经理由她担任，知名的涂鸦Logo背后有她的参与，开创性广告产品之一AdSense的第一任产品经理是她，提议和推动谷歌收购YouTube的还是她。
她让YouTube壮大成为全球最大的内容创作平台，可以说是YouTube发展的关键人物。2014年，苏珊出任YouTube CEO，带领YouTube进行了一系列创新，YouTube从此进入了发展的快车道。从17亿美元收购YouTube，到亿万富翁投资者马克·库班当时表示任何购买YouTube的人都是傻瓜，再到沃西基把YouTube发展成一家市值约1600亿美元的企业。
在她的职业生涯，她休了5次产假（生了5个娃），幸运的是她没遇见什么职场危机，因为每当她生下一个孩子，工作上便愈战愈勇，一次次将公司推向全新台阶。以下为油管博主对这位油管CEO的采访，看看沃西基的一天日常是怎样的？
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油管CEO的一天日常是怎样的？
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-My name is Anthony Padilla, and today I'll be spending a day with Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, who began as one of Google's first employees. This is understandably a controversial subject for me to broach, but I'm going to do my best to address the issues that I along with so many of you have, while also getting to know Susan better as a person. By the end of this video, we'll find out what becoming CEO and running this $170 billion company is really like, just how deep she gets into the drama and gossip that occurs on the platform and YouTube's role in de
-platforming its creators. Is holding the highest
-ranking position at one of the most culturally impactful platforms on the internet entirely rewarding or has the sheer amount of attacks and rage that Susan's endured as CEO made her want to avoid looking at the internet altogether? Hello, Susan.
-Hello.
-Do you remember the first time you heard about YouTube and what you thought of it?
-I first heard about YouTube from the very, very beginning. I worked on a product that Google had before YouTube, which was called Google Video. For a variety of reasons, YouTube started growing in a very compelling way. At the time, we lived in this world where there was only traditional media, and no one had really thought about could a normal person just upload and become a star. Then I realized there was a whole new wave of storytelling, and that's why I was such a strong advocate for Google to really invest here.
-That's so interesting that you were on that side of it, seeing that potential, while I was on the content creator side seeing the potential of it. Their little slogan was "broadcast yourself", and I was like, "Whoa, I can upload content." I remember uploading our first video with Smosh and then seeing feedback from people, 12 comments just blew my mind that people were there and ready to interact immediately. What made you feel like you were the right person to take lead in this hugely influential platform?
-It was really Larry Page, who is the founder of Google, who offered me that role. I immediately knew that I had to decide right then and there.
-You had to decide within that conversation if you wanted to be CEO of YouTube?
-Within a second, and it was an easy choice. I knew. I was like, "Yes, I love YouTube. I think it's amazing."
-Were you even able to think about the huge undertaking that you were about to undergo?
-No, I had no idea. You were like, "I'll figure it out. Future me can worry about that." How stressful is this job? You're trying to appeal to the creators, the viewers, the advertisers, the investors, the lawmakers, so many people at once.
-There are definitely stressful moments. First of all, I've done this for a long time, and the fact that I have done it for so many years gives me some perspective on it that whatever the issue is, I know that we can work through it. I think what is really hard about this role is, no matter what you do and how well the platform is doing and how well it's growing, you're always going to have a lot of constituents who are saying you're not doing enough of one or the other.
-I'm sure there's a couple of commenters right now saying some things like that.
-I recognize that there's so many creators and small businesses, and they're dependent on the decisions that we make. I take that very seriously, and I want to do a good job. In the end, all these hard conversations
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- The reason I love doing it is because of the stories that we hear about the impact it has, and that's why, at the end of the day, I'm committed.
-Is there anything that you do to prevent yourself from experiencing burnout?
-For me, the biggest thing is to focus on what I'm excited about. I also need to have a break. I think that's one of the hardest things about this job is, I could do this job 24 hours a day and it wouldn't be enough.
-There's always an email to respond to, always an issue that needs to be addressed.
-There always is. I need at some point to stop.
-Do you have time that you schedule to put your phone down and just get away from your work for a little bit?
-I schedule at the end of the day, I have to stop. Even if I'm not done, I have to stop. I have to get time to exercise and be outside and see friends and family.
-You're telling me self
-care is important?
-It's very important. It's amazing. The next morning, usually, I look at it and it's like, "Oh, that problem isn't so bad," and I just power through it, but at night it looked like I'd never get through it.
-With that said, there are certain elements to YouTube that make it very, very difficult to do that. Considering creators are competing with over 500 hours of content being uploaded to YouTube every single minute and an ever
-evolving algorithm that's exhausting to keep up with, are you aware of the burnout that this creates for creators?
-We actually looked across a large number of channels, I believe it was millions of channels, over a six
-year period to understand what happened to creators' channels when they did take a break. What we saw is that, on average, their viewership and engagement was equal or greater when they returned.
-Really?
-Yes, really. We really want creators to know they can take a break.
-Do you think it's just this innate human behavior, this reaction to seeing success, they feel like, "I can't take a break, I need to continue this momentum," or do you think it is something intrinsically designed within the YouTube platform that makes people feel like they have to continue going at full throttle non
-stop?
-It is a competitive space. The environment changes, culture changes very quickly. I don't know if it's YouTube specific as it is, just media.
-How many hours a week do you spend consuming content on YouTube?
-I probably watch YouTube at least an hour every day, just personally.
-That's me on a very low day. For me, it's probably like three hours at least.
-I watch it for work, too. When you watch it for work, usually those are different kinds of videos. Sometimes there are videos that are of something that's going wrong.
-Many creators feel constant pressure to optimize every single aspect of their content with increasingly eye
-catching titles and thumbnails, as well as the pressure to keep viewers from clicking on the competing related videos that display alongside their content. Do you have any plans to ease this burden on creators?
-To you it might seem like competing content, but I think, to viewers, it might seem like lots of options and an opportunity also to discover different creators.
-Creating content on YouTube has obviously changed my life for the better. I would not be who I am today without YouTube. Then, again, someone might ask me about the struggles, "What's it like creating content on YouTube?" I can say something like, "Imagine that you're in a work environment that doesn't always lay out clear guidelines for what's rewarded and abruptly changes those guidelines and expectations and puts the onus on you to interpret your own performance metrics in order to succeed." What kind of impact on an employee's work and general well
-being do you think this creates?
-In some ways, all jobs have some amount of uncertainty in them. It's not always clearly laid out for you. It can be competitive and difficult. On YouTube, specifically, we want to communicate more with creators. We have a huge initiative to try to make sure that we're doing everything we can for creators to understand our platform and understand how it works.
-Do you think there'll ever be just one place where people know that they can always see constant rollodex of updates, so that it's easy to know what's going on?
-We try to put it in YouTube Studio because that's the place that we know all creators are going to.
-Before we continue learning about the world of being the CEO of YouTube, if there's anyone in the comments right now angrily claiming that you Susan are the key reason that YouTube isn't the way they wish it were, what would you say to them? I'd like to thank the absurdly talented 3D and VFX artist Jacob Dalton for creating the coming up screen that you just witnessed, and also this incredible looping animation that is occurring right between your eyes. Let's just pause and enjoy. Of course, I'd also like to thank you for continuing to support me and giving me the opportunity to sit down with some incredibly remarkable people and being open to this new format I've been experimenting with. Just having one
-on
-one interviews, just a single guest per episode. Like I spent a day with Mia Khalifa, Corpse Husband, Dream and even now, the CEO of YouTube herself. If you will, please take a look down at your Subscribe button, see if you're subscribed. Most people who watch these episodes aren't subscribed and they might not even know it at all, so make sure to click that Subscribe button if you don't want to miss the upcoming episodes that I have planned on bipolar disorder. What I have was some of the most legendary OG Mindcrafters on the platform. Now, back to the world of being a CEO of YouTube. Do you keep up to date with any drama or gossip that goes on on YouTube?
-Yes, I do.
-Like the petty stuff or
-
-? What kind of level?
-It's all my job, in a sense, to know what's happening on YouTube.
-How much does this drama affect your job and the decisions that you make behind the scenes?
-When there is drama, I want to make sure that I'm aware of it, generally understand what's going on. Is this something that we need to step in and to make sure that we're protecting the community, or is there something that's missing in our policies that maybe isn't protected, some kind of action, the creators are upset, and we need policy to deal with this going forward. I'm really looking at it from that perspective.
-Many mental health professionals are beginning to link media trauma, including public humiliation, shaming and misrepresentation campaigns with the intent of tarnishing another creator's reputation for personal gain and monetization. They're linking that with complex PTSD. Do you feel the way that the YouTube platform is designed inadvertently rewards and encourages this kind of behavior?
-We're working to discourage that. One of the things that we saw is that people were sometimes repeatedly attacking someone, but in a small way. It'd be like every video, but it's just a little
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-The one person doesn't feel like the one jab is contributing to this much bigger damage.
-That's why we actually then started to implement policy around that and have a variety of different steps, whether it's monetization, or having a strike, or losing the channel, at least, because we don't want to see creator
-on
-creator harassment.
-I've seen more and more of that with certain sections of the site feeling like tabloids in a way, or gossip sites where they become centers of attack to drive people off the platform and almost deplatform them.
-We're trying to keep tabs on what's happening, and making sure that we have the right policies in place to address that.
-On the opposite side of that, does YouTube plan to deplatform creators based on allegations of illegal activities provided in videos uploaded to the platform?
-When we do see legal activity, or there is clear proof of a crime, there certainly will be times it makes sense to remove them from the platform. These cases take many different forms and some people are accused, but they're actually innocent, or they say they didn't do it, but then the court
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-It's very messy.
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-[?] guilty. There could be many different examples of this, but, yes, we're trying to make sure that we are not having any kind of nexus or connection to illegal activity in terms of things that have happened on the platform.
-I can see that being really difficult to differentiate between the two because, like you said, sometimes there's false allegations that people make. Maybe someone does it just because they know it's going to get them views and make the money with ads, and then there's other people that are being genuine. I feel like it's a very nuanced and difficult situation to be in, especially when people are putting that responsibility on YouTube to make all those decisions and to always know what's best. People have this mob mentality where they say, "We all think this is true, so it might as well be true, and you should act as if it's true."
-I don't want to generalize because we look at every case. We try to go on all the facts, not who's saying what about what, but what are the facts of the case, and what's the right thing for the overall community.
-Why do you feel it makes sense to allow edgier, or even straight
-up lewd contents to remain fully monetizable, even allowing it to sit at the top of YouTube's trending tab if it's in the form of a music video while demonetizing or blacklisting the same type of content, otherwise?
-Advertisers have decisions about where their dollars go. They're spending money with YouTube, and if we put them on a video that they don't like, they're going to pull spend from that creator going forward, and they may pull spend from a lot of other creators, and they might pull it from all of YouTube. There is a lot more tolerance from the advertising community to be on music videos when they're the best
-selling video, when you have really popular music, established, and everybody's singing it, and it's very popular.
-It's more so the advertiser that decides, "I want to be on this lewd content because it's popular."
-We cannot say like, "Hey, you need to be on this creator or what, or we're going take away all your spend." They'll be like, "Okay, fine. I'll leave." Advertisers will literally choose. They'll have a whitelist. They'll have people in their department and they will say, "These are the videos we want to run on," and they just hand us a whitelist.
-If there's anyone in the comments right now angrily claiming that you, Susan, are the key reason that YouTube isn't the way they wish it were, what would you say to them?
-It's much more complicated. It's not just me.
- You're not going to blame someone else?
-I'll take ultimate responsibility for everything, but it has to do with the fact we want to enable as many creators. We want them to have monetization, but a lot of times, these issues are much more complex than people understand. Maybe the changes that we implemented, for example, are due to regulation, or they're due because these changes we've done will enable more advertisers to come and spend more revenue with YouTube creators. It's not like I just made a decision by myself and then was like, "Oh, no. I'll pull you in the back."
-You're not sitting control room flipping switches and saying, "Yes, turn this on. No, turn that off."
-No, no. We want to have as much my free expression as possible.
-How do you feel about people specifically targeting you with these things? When I posted a community tab post asking people to submit questions for this, many people were specifically attacking you in some ways. How do you feel when you receive those attacks? Do you just brush it off?
-It's hard. It is much more complex than people realize. Sure, if I could just wave a magic wand and make everybody happy, I would.
-Do you try not to read those comments, or do you just brush it off your back? Do any of them get to you?
-Look, at the end of the day, I do it because I believe in the value that YouTube's creating, even though there are some people who are angry. I also try to make sure that I'm listening, and I'm hearing them. The demonetization, what was it? The ad apocalypse, right?
-Adpocalyse. Just want to say, you got to say it perfectly or people are going to roast.
-Yes, totally.
-Adpocalypse.
-Adpocalypse.
-Yes. There you go.
-Honestly, it's not a word I said a lot. I read it. That was a period of time where it was really hard. It was so hard. Everyone was yelling at us.
-I can imagine.
-The creators were yelling at us, our advertisers were yelling at us. Internally, people were yelling at us.
-I'm sure you had some prime ministers yelling at you somewhere.
-It wasn't a really good time.
-I'll just leave it at that.
-When you reflect as your time as CEO, what do you think you're most proud of?
-I'm proud overall that the platform has enabled so many people to tell their story and to have careers and storytelling that otherwise they never would have had.
-You know that the community is the foundation for the entire platform. It sounds to me like you're wanting to constantly achieve that and then you appreciate it.
-I do. I definitely do. I watch videos where people are complaining about YouTube. I read the comments, I am on Twitter.
-There you go, leave some comments below, and Susan will read them, maybe.
-I read through them, and when it's something that I think we need to change, I'll send it to our team. I'll send it and say, "Hey, I saw this video, you should watch it." I find gaps in what we do, and I try to fix it.
-It is easy to overlook things because you obviously are not an average user in the sense that you're not on the site 10 hours a day like some people.
-I do have things I have to it.
-Of course.
-I wouldn't to be doing my job if I was on YouTube 10 hours a day.
-You're like, "I just consume YouTube now. I didn't even manage it anymore."
-[?] my job.
-What do you think is the biggest misconception about you?
-There are issues that I just don't want to fix. A lot of times, they're much, much deeper and they're more complicated. You criticized us on our monetization around sexual content.
-I personally feel these topics and the people affected by their discussions are extremely important despite YouTube's advertisers blacklisting this content from being discovered, because I saw it as a point of view of a journalistic perspective, having conversations that I feel could be incredibly impactful and helpful for many people. Yet, YouTube sees the word "sex" and says, "This can't happen." Even though I'm like, "There's a YouTube for kids out there, this is standard YouTube, this is okay for this side of YouTube."
-One of them was around monetization. You're like, "Oh, YouTube has to make this decision."
-Videos discussing anything sexual, whether it be for educational purposes or journalism are almost always demonetized by YouTube.
-Advertisers may not necessarily choose to associate their brand with that content. It's not necessarily YouTube's decision, but I will say that our goal is to try to continue to work on the advertiser community to understand what can work for them and why. Then in that video, you also said that we will not distribute it, like inspiration, recommendations.
-Recommend, or push it, distribute it.
-That's actually a common misconception.
-In that video, yes.
-People always will say that, "Oh, it got demonetized," and we suppressed it in some way in the recommendations and stuff. What happens is, if there's content that is maybe edgier or more adult in themes, then we also have to
- it's not necessarily that we are trying to suppress it, it's that we may need to be just more careful because it's a more of an adult type of content. In reality, things are just much more complicated. There are many aspects about why we're making the decisions that we are.
-You're telling me there's nuance. You got five seconds a shout
-out to promote anything you want directly in the camera, go.
-Thank you to all the creators for all your incredible work, and I'm going to do everything I can to continue to grow the community in the best way I can. Subscribe to the Anthony Padilla channel.
-Subscribe to the Anthony Padilla channel right here right now.
-You want me to point down? There you have it, I spent a day with Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube. I feel like I understand where she's coming from and her position a little bit more. The thing that actually struck me most was just how willing it sounds like she is to listen and try to understand the issues that so many of us are having with the platform. Also, how it's a natural inclination to place full blame on the CEO of any company. Of course, there is so much more nuance to the way that companies actually work behind the scenes. I really hope to spend another day with her soon to see how many of our concerns have actually been addressed, and also to see how much Susan's life has changed as well.
-When you created the Smosh movie and you asked for Mr. YouTube, YouTube's CEO is a total asshole.
-Can you just explain that to me?
-The idea of it was just, wouldn't it be funny if this guy needs to be an asshole because it's funny, and I don't think that it was much deeper than that. It wasn't based off you or anything. I swear. Did you actually watch it?
-I watched that scene, yes.
-I did think it was funny.
-Smosh: The Movie, Susan Wojcicki approved.
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在她的职业生涯，她休了5次产假，但没遇到什么职场危机，因为每当她生下一个孩子，工作上便愈战愈勇，一次次将公司推向全新台阶。2022年，这家公司净赚了292亿美元（约合2000亿人民币），占谷歌母公司Alphabet总收入的10%以上。
女强人不能兼顾家庭？她做到了。几乎每天，她都会18点到家，陪孩子玩3个小时，期间关闭一切电脑和手机。战斗力爆表，都是被逼出来的。
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谷歌第一个休产假的人，
创始人都得抱她大腿！
沃西基的家庭，让她赢在了起跑线上。
她的父亲，是斯坦福大学的物理教授；母亲，是一名高中教师。沃西基曾表示，对她影响最大的两个人，就是她的父母。父亲教会了她如何系统分析，抓住问题本质，从母亲那儿，她学会了新闻和写作，培养出独立思考的能力。
这些家庭教育的伏笔，直到1999年终于爆发。
事情得追溯到前一年。当时的沃西基，完成了人生三件大事，拿下了MBA、买了房、结了婚。因为房子是贷款买的，为了缓解压力，她打算将车库和几间房租出去。
一番挑选后，她决定把车库租给两名斯坦福研究生。这两人，一个叫拉里·佩吉，另一个叫谢尔盖·布林，他们在沃西基家的车库里创办了谷歌。
谷歌这俩创始人，搬进来不久，就对沃西基说：你所在的公司没太大前景了，不如辞职加入我们。
当时的她，是英特尔的市场部高管，还是贝恩咨询公司的管理顾问。这两家公司，随便哪家都能完爆襁褓中的谷歌。还在事业上升期的沃西基，一口回绝。
她还不客气地说，“你们怎么折腾我不管，记得给我乖乖交房租就行。”
但没过多久，沃西基就改变了主意。
1999年的某天，谷歌服务器宕机了。她慌了，同时也很惊讶地发现，原来自己对谷歌如此依赖。其实当时做搜索引擎的公司很多，比如有Alta Vista、Lycos、Excite等等，但谷歌最合她口味。
回过神来，沃西基意识到：或许有很多人都和我一样，都在用谷歌获取信息。
这次沃西基没错过机会。当时怀有4个月身孕的她，毅然从英特尔跳槽到自家车库，加入仅有15名员工的谷歌。
就这样，她成了谷歌第一位女性员工，第一位市场营销人员。
一上来，那两个一心倒腾技术的创始人就抛给她一个难题：没有经费，没有推广人员，如何打出谷歌的知名度？
沃西基也不慌。她利用自己的人脉在高校推广，说服学校将谷歌免费添加到校网的搜索栏上。同时，她还有一招——谷歌涂鸦（Google Doodle），融合了各个国家的经典日子，比如节假日，名人诞辰日，极具趣味性。
今天的谷歌涂鸦
双管齐下，再加上有谷歌的技术做支持，谷歌由此积累了大量高价值用户。
至此，沃西基在谷歌打响了第一枪。
但这时的她，还远称不上“谷歌之母”，即便谷歌是在她的车库诞生的。好戏，还在后头。
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生娃越多，工作越猛！
谷歌女财神如何炼成？
沃西基是谷歌第一个休产假的人，也是第一个休了五次产假的人。
怀孕生孩子，不仅没影响她的工作，甚至她的每次怀孕，都可以看作是谷歌发展史上的一座座里程碑。
怀第一胎时，她跳槽到谷歌，帮谷歌打出了知名度。
到了怀第二胎时，她则扛起了谷歌的盈利大旗——广告。
这时还有人会问，“你什么时候辞职回家带孩子？”不过这问题，以后再没人问过。
广告是当时谷歌最重要的收入方式。但那时候，网页上要么是轰炸式广告，体验极差，要么就是静悄悄躺在角落，只有当你主动搜索才会出现，极不人性化。
在沃西基的倡议下，谷歌推出了自助式广告AdWords。此后，广告主便可自由发布广告，广告会根据用户的搜索词出现在页面两侧，按点击量向广告主收费。另外，谷歌还借助程序分析，根据用户喜好推送广告类型，谷歌的广告业务走上正轨。
后来，沃西基还运作出了竞价排名模式，被同行竞相模仿。
过了3年，基于AdWords的部分功能，她又打造出AdSense，一个完全自助的广告平台。由此，广告摆脱了原本的封闭状态，任何人都可以在自己的第三方网站上发布公告。
正是广告业务的勃发，奠定了谷歌发展的基础之一。
最夸张的时候，沃西基负责的广告产品贡献了谷歌约96%的营收！今天的谷歌，有闲钱去收购，去钻研黑科技，得好好感谢沃西基这位“谷歌女财神”。
事业做到这地步，足以在谷歌历史上青史留名。但沃西基没停下脚步。
在她生第三胎后，她又干成了一件大事——收购YouTube。
其实当时的谷歌也在做视频网站，叫做Google Video，也是由沃西基领导。说到这儿，不得不提后舍男生唱的那首《As Long As You Love Me》，这个Google Video上首个观看次数超百万的视频，让沃西基一度看到了胜利的曙光。
但在2005年2月，YouTube成立了。它的发展势头，完全盖过了Google Video。
沃西基思前想后，还是觉得干不过YouTube。于是，她的思想开始转变：“当你意识到你需要改变战略，或者什么事行不通时，大多数时候我们会有一种本能的抵制情绪，其实你需要的正是拥抱它、接受它。越早调整，就越早走上正轨。”
她决定说服董事会，收购YouTube。
很少人看好她的决定。知名投资人马克·库班还diss道：“只有傻子才会去买YouTube。”要知道，当时的YouTube，成立仅一年，仅25个员工，没有盈利，还有各种版权麻烦。
沃西基力排众议，最终花了16.5亿美元完成收购。
现在，YouTube是全球最大的视频网站，估值千亿美元！
收购YouTube不到一年，沃西基怀上了第四胎。这次她的动静更大，她花了31亿美元收购了曾经最大的网络广告服务商Double Click。这次收购，与收购YouTube，被认为是Google最成功的两次收购。
最终在2014年，46岁的沃西基怀上第五个孩子时，她迎来职业生涯的另一件大事——她被任命为YouTube的CEO。
在她的主导下，YouTube一方面继续加强社交属性、差异化内容，并加大利益分享促使用户不断增强内容质量，另一方面YouTube开始针对不同的线上视频市场做出严格的划分，比如推出YouTube Kids、YouTube Gaming、YouTube Music，以及YouTube Red付费项目。
因此YouTube顺利找到了“下一个十亿用户”。现在，YouTube的月活跃用户超20亿，用户每天观看10亿小时视频。
做完这些，沃西基“谷歌之母”、“谷歌女财神”的地位，才算实锤了。
尽管在谷歌举足轻重，沃西基却很低调，还曾被媒体称为“你从未听说过的最重要的谷歌人”。
因为她的人生中，还有另一大重心：家庭。
03
“当上妈妈，成就了工作中更好的我”
沃西基从小的生长环境，让她深刻明白，家庭教育对于一个孩子的影响会有多大。
在其父母的教导下，不仅沃西基成为了独当一面的女强人，她的两个妹妹，亦不遑多让。
二妹珍妮特·沃西基，毕业于斯坦福大学，成为了加州大学的医学人类学家和流行病学家，精通非洲多国语言，对艾滋病的研究做出过巨大贡献；三妹安妮·沃西基，是基因技术公司23andMe的创始人之一，被誉为“女版乔布斯”，身家超过280亿美元。
因此，沃西基绝不会忽视家庭。
即便成为了Youtube的CEO，她都尽可能六点到家，和家人一起吃饭。
她告诉同事，晚上18点到21点间不工作，有事情她也要九点后才能回复。这段时间，她还让家人不要用电脑和手机等电子设备，这样就有更多的时间一起交流和沟通。
在她看来，5个孩子“培养了我完成多项任务的能力，更好地安排事情的优先顺序。因此当母亲有助于我事业上取得成功”。
同时她认为，一个母亲往往是一个更好的管理者，好的管理者要和母亲一样学会理解他人。
所以她鼓励更多女性加入科技行业，希望女性破除对科技行业的偏见，不要认为只有男性才适合。
为此，她努力为科技公司的女性谋福利。她在谷歌停车场设置了很多准妈妈的停车位，亲自设计了谷歌的日托中心。她还将12周的带薪产假增加到了18周，而且，初为人父的员工也有12周的带薪陪产假。
自2014年她当上YouTube的CEO，YouTube的女性员工比例从24%增加到了30%。
结语：
曾有人问沃西基，她是如何做到带五个小孩还事业成功时，她回答：“这里面暗示女性就应该在家带小孩，其实是有偏见的。”
面对同样的问题，姚晨曾经在星空演讲里反问道：“很多人问我：你是如何兼顾事业与家庭的？我一直很困惑，为什么没有人问我先生同样的问题呢？”
这就是女性的现状，歧视和偏见从不会缺席她们的生活。
世界上绝大多数的女性，恐怕都不具备沃西基这样的好条件。更多的母亲，只是硬着头皮扛下去。她们每个人，也都有资格写本书：《战神是怎样炼成的》。
作者：英语演讲第一站
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