YouTube’s Indian-origin Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Neal Mohan has been named as the 2025 CEO of the Year by TIME magazine.

“In many ways YouTube is creating the cultural diet that the globe is beginning to subsist on. Mohan is the farmer; what he cultivates will be what we eat,” TIME said in its profile of the executive.

“YouTube provides the soil, and everyone comes and plants whatever nourishing or noxious plants they care to. As the garden takes over more of the planet, even threatening some old-growth forests, whatever grows there becomes what everyone consumes, because it’s what’s available, and often what’s free,” it said.

Describing Mohan, TIME said the pilot of the world’s most powerful distraction machine is “surprisingly mellow”.

“He’s quiet-spoken, deliberative, hard to r

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