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Ex-CEO of YouTube Susan Wojcicki passed away at the age of 56 after battling cancer for two years. He husband Dennis Troper announced the news of her death on Facebook read more
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Ex- YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speaks during the introduction of YouTube TV at YouTube Space LA on Feb. 28, 2017, in Los Angeles. File Image / AP
Former CEO of YouTube Susan Wojcicki passed away at the age of 56 after battling cancer for two years. Wojcicki, who was one of the first employees at Google was touted as a pioneer for women in tech. The former YouTube chief’s husband Dennis Troper announced the news of her death on Friday
“It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki’s passing. My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after two years of living with non-small cell lung cancer," Troper wrote in a Facebook post.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai took to X, formerly known as Twitter to express grief over the matter. “Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend @SusanWojcicki after two years of living with cancer,” he wrote in the post.
Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend @SusanWojcicki after two years of living with cancer. She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her. She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous…
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) August 10, 2024“She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her. She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous impact on the world and I’m one of countless Googlers who is better for knowing her. We will miss her dearly. Our thoughts with her family. RIP Susan,” the chief executive of Alphabet Inc added.
The life and legacy of Susan Wojcicki
One of the most notable women in tech, Wojcicki joined Google in 1999 and became one of the first few employees of the web search company. In the year 2006, Google acquired YouTube for a whopping $1.65 billion. Before she was appointed as the CEO of YouTube Wojcicki was senior vice president for ad products at Google.
After leading the video-sharing platform for nine years she stepped down from her role and chose her deputy, Neal Mohan, a senior advertising and product executive, to take over her post. At that time Susan said that she was stepping down to focus on her “family, health, and personal projects”.
Meanwhile, Mohan who succeded Wojcicki was a long-term Google employee as well, who joined the company in 2008. Mohan also reacted to the tragic news. “Today we @youtube lost a teammate, mentor, and friend, @SusanWojcicki. I had the good fortune of meeting Susan 17 years ago when she was the architect of the DoubleClick acquisition. Her legacy lives on in everything she touched @google and @youtube,” Mohan wrote on X.
Today we @youtube lost a teammate, mentor, and friend, @SusanWojcicki. I had the good fortune of meeting Susan 17 years ago when she was the architect of the DoubleClick acquisition. Her legacy lives on in everything she touched @google and @youtube. I am
forever grateful for…
“I am forever grateful for her friendship and guidance. I will miss her tremendously. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones,” he added. After stepping down, Wojcicki at that time planned to take on an advisory role at Alphabet, Google’s parent company.
“Twenty-five years ago I made the decision to join a couple of Stanford graduate students who were building a new search engine. Their names were Larry and Sergey… It would be one of the best decisions of my life,” Wojcicki wrote in a blog post on the day she left YouTube. In the post, she was referring to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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