{"id":954623,"date":"2025-08-13T11:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=954623"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:09:22","slug":"former-youtube-product-officer-on-money-struggles-during-early-days-google-had-a-cash-pile-over-there-but-i-had-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/13\/former-youtube-product-officer-on-money-struggles-during-early-days-google-had-a-cash-pile-over-there-but-i-had-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Former YouTube product officer on money struggles during early days: \u2018Google had a cash pile over there, but I had to\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former YouTube chief product officer Shishir Mehrotra said that securing funds at YouTube during its early growth years was more difficult than raising money in the open market. Speaking on the Grit podcast (via Business Insider), Mehrotra recalled that even though Google had a \u201ccash pile\u201d, he had to request funding internally. &#8220;Google had a cash pile over there, but I had to go ask for investment from it,&#8221; Shishir Mehrotra said during the podcast interview. \u201cIt&#8217;s just like raising money from a venture capitalist,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Even with Google\u2019s resources, he said the internal funding process was restrictive. \u201cEverybody around you can say no, and only one person can say yes,\u201d he said, referring to Google CEO Sundar Pichai as the sole decision-maker for major investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former YouTube chief product officer Shishir Mehrotra said that securing funds at YouTube during its early growth years was more difficult than raising money in the open market. Speaking on the Grit podcast (via Business Insider), Mehrotra recalled that even though Google had a \u201ccash pile\u201d, he had to request funding internally. &#8220;Google had a cash pile over there, but I had to go ask for investment from it,&#8221; Shishir Mehrotra said during the podcast interview. \u201cIt&#8217;s just like raising money from a venture capitalist,\u201d he added. Even with Google\u2019s resources, he said the internal funding process was restrictive. \u201cEverybody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}