Google: Today, known as the CEO of YouTube, Neil Mohan was offered a huge offer of $ 100 million to prevent the company from going from the company at one time. The disclosure was recently in the podcast of Zerodha’s co-founder Nikhil Kamath, where it was mentioned how there was a tremendous tussle between the tech companies over the talent at that time.
The incident is from 2011, when Neil Mohan was playing an important role in Google’s Ad and YouTube product development strategy. Nikhil Kamath said during the conversation, “I had read that Google had given you $ 100 million to not leave the company, not today, but 15 years ago. At that time this amount was very big.” Neil Mohan did not deny this claim.
Why was this offer given?
According to a report in 2011, Google gave this amount not directly cash but as a restricted stock units (RSUS), which was to be met gradually over time. This step was taken because Twitter (which is known today as X) wanted to connect Neil Mohan with him. There his old boss David Rousnbat had already joined the board and wanted to make him the Chief Product Officer of Twitter.
Neel Mohan’s journey
Neil Mohan has studied in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He started his career with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), after which he joined a company called Netgravity. This startup was later bought by Doubleclick, where Neil traveled to the post of Vice President.
In 2007, Google bought DoubleClick for $ 3.1 billion, after which Neil joined Google’s ad team and became an important pillar in the company’s strategy. By 2011, he had made so much importance to Google that the company offered $ 100 million to maintain him – and this step proved to be beneficial for the company.
Not just Neel was the target of Twitter
Neil Mohan was not the only Google executive whom Twitter wanted to associate with him. Meanwhile, Twitter also approached Sundar Pichai, who was at that time taking command of Chrome and Chrome OS in Google. Google offered about $ 50 million stocks to stop them.
Today’s situation
Today Neil Mohan is the CEO of YouTube, he replaced Susan Wojsiki in 2023. Beautiful Pichai is the CEO of Google since 2015 and from 2019 to Alphabet Inc. They are also handling the responsibility of CEO. Both these leaders of Indian origin are counted among the most influential faces in the global tech industry today.
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