India, May 27 -- Neal Mohan isn't a household name, but in Silicon Valley, he is known as the man who shaped the digital advertising landscape and YouTube's product roadmap. The Indian-American executive has long preferred to stay behind the scenes, quietly executing strategies that helped Google and YouTube become global powerhouses.

However, Neal Mohan recently sat down with Nikhil Kamath for a podcast where the host referred to a little-known fact about the CEO of YouTube. Kamath revealed that Google once paid $100 million to retain Neal Mohan so he would not join Twitter (now called X).

Neal Mohan became the centre of a high-stakes talent tug-of-war between Google and Twitter in 2011. The war ended with a jaw-dropping $100 million s...