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TIME on Instagram: "YouTube CEO @neal_mohan is TIME’s CEO of the Year. The pilot of one of the world’s most powerful companies is surprisingly mellow when we meet him. He’s quiet-spoken, deliberative, hard to ruffle. He likes watching sports, going to his daughters’ dance recitals, and his favorite candy is the not-very-exciting Butterfinger. In an era where tech titans are also sometimes trying to dismantle a government agency or take tourists into space, Neal Mohan’s focused on one thing. He just runs YouTube. For him, that’s more than enough. “The dynamics of the entire media industry are changing before our eyes,” he says. “It’s incredibly disruptive.” YouTube, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, is both a brand and a universe. More than 2 billion people, a quarter of the world’s population, visit it every day, where they are greeted by 500-plus hours of new footage every minute. As mayor of the global megalopolis, Mohan knows one of his chief duties is to communicate a genial unflappability rather than a slick charm. He’s superior at it: uncle level. “He walks around almost like he’s the manager at a restaurant,” says Kinigra Deon, one of YouTube’s rising stars. Read our interview with Mohan at the link in bio. Photograph by Jessica Chou (@choutoo) for TIME"