Indian-American CEO of YouTube, Neal Mohan, has been named 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 Mohan.

“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.

The magazine also noted that the CEO of the “world’s most powerful distraction” is “surprisingly mellow.” The 52-year-old executive likes to describe what he and his colleagues do as buildi

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