Little known to the general public, Robert Kyncl is nevertheless the man behind one of the most popular social networks in the world.
Each month, more than 2.2 billion Internet users watch videos on this Google subsidiary, not far from Facebook and its 2.8 billion users.
At 52, this former Netflix content manager has announced his intention to leave his post as chief business officer at YouTube in early 2023 to pursue another adventure, revealed
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He will be replaced by Mary Ellen Coe, head of customer solutions at Google.
Founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, YouTube was acquired a year later by Google.
But it wasn't until the arrival of Robert Kyncl in 2010 that the video platform really took off with the
Gangnam Style
video, which exceeded 2 billion video views in 2012. In twelve years, he made YouTube a veritable ad-supported free video giant.
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