Indu Jain

Indu Jain (8 September 1936 – 13 May 2021) was an Indian media executive and philanthropist. She belonged to the Sahu Jain family and was the chairperson of India's largest media group, popularly known as The Times Group.

As of 2006, Indu Jain had an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion, making her 317th-richest person in the world. She was involved in philanthropy related to development and disaster relief, as well as literary endeavours.

In 1999, following the death of her husband, publishing magnate Ashok Kumar Jain, Indu Jain became chair of The Times Group, India's largest media group (formally named Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd). This group owns The Times of India and other newspapers and media outlets. In 2012, the Times Group employed 11,000 people, and controlled 38 percent of the Indian newspaper market. The key to the success of the Times Group is that the newspapers are not about investigative reporting, but selling advertisements with large parts of the papers dedicated to Bollywood and paid editorials.

According to Forbes's 2006 rankings, Indu Jain had a net worth of $2.4 billion and was the 317th-richest person in the world. In 2006, Indu Jain filed charges against Forbes for breach of privacy and stated that the estimates were speculative. The Delhi High Court dismissed the case in October 2007. As of 2007, she was estimated to be the richest woman in Asia.

In 2000 Jain founded The Times Foundation, which she also chaired. The Times Foundation runs Community Services, Research Foundation and Times Relief Fund for relief from disasters such as floods, cyclones, earthquakes and epidemics. In 2000, Jain addressed the Millennium Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders at the United Nations.

Jain was founder and president of the ladies' wing of FICCI (FLO) as of March 2017. From 1999 to her death, she chaired the Bharatiya Jnanpith Trust, a literary organization founded by her father-in-law Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain in 1944. The Trust administers the Jnanpith award, the highest honour for authors writing in Indian languages.

Jain was an author, publishing a two-volume Encyclopedia of Indian Saints and Sages in 2012 and 2019. Co-authored with N. K. Prasad and published by Times Group Books, the second instalment was launched at an event for World Environmental Day with religious leaders.

Indu Jain was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the government of India in January 2016.

Susan Wojcicki

Susan Diane Wojcicki is an American business executive who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. She has been in the tech industry Susan Diane Wojcicki born July 5, 1968) is an American business executive who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at $765 million in 2022.

Wojcicki was involved in the founding of Google, and became Google's first marketing manager in 1999. She later led the company's online advertising business and was put in charge of Google's original video service.  After observing the success of YouTube, Wojcicki proposed the acquisition of YouTube by Google in 2006, and has served as CEO of YouTube since 2014.

Wojcicki has an estimated net worth of $580 million.

In September 1998, the same month that Google was incorporated, its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up office in Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park. Before becoming Google's first marketing manager in 1999, Wojcicki worked in marketing at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, and was a management consultant at Bain & Company and R.B. Webber & Company. At Google, she worked on the initial viral marketing programs, as well as the first Google Doodles. Wojcicki also took part in the development of successful contributions to Google such as Google Images and Google Books.

In 2003, Wojcicki helped lead the development of one of Google's seminal advertising products—AdSense. She served as its first product manager, and for her efforts, was awarded the Google Founders' Award. She rose to become Google's senior vice president of Advertising & Commerce, and oversaw the company's advertising and analytic products, including AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, and Google Analytics.

YouTube, then a small start-up, was successfully competing with Google's Google Video service, overseen by Wojcicki. Her response was to propose the purchase of YouTube.

She handled two of Google's largest acquisitions — the $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube in 2006 and the $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick in 2007.

CEO of YouTube

In February 2014, Wojcicki became the CEO of YouTube. She was called "the most important person in advertising," as well as named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2015 and described in a later issue of Time as “the most powerful woman on the Internet.”