Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and outstanding tech chief, died at 56 after two years of residing with non-small cell lung most cancers.
“It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki passing,” wrote her husband, Dennis Troper, on Fb on Friday. “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.”
Over the weekend, the tech group has been mourning her passing and celebrating her achievements.
Wojcicki joined YouTube as CEO in 2014, main the corporate for almost a decade earlier than stepping down in February 2023 to “start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about.” On stepping down, she stated she’d proceed working with YouTube groups, teaching members and assembly with creators.
However her affect stretches far additional again.
Wojcicki was instrumental in serving to construct Google in its early years, and she or he has been credited with shaping a few of its most profitable merchandise, together with co-creating writer monetization program AdSense, wrote CNBC.
In 1998, to assist cowl her mortgage, Wojcicki rented her Menlo Park, Calif., storage house for $1,700 per thirty days to 2 Ph.D. college students at Stanford College, Google founders Larry Web page and Sergey Brin.
On the time, Wojcicki was working within the advertising division at Intel. However after recognizing its early potential, she joined Google in 1999 as its sixteenth worker, shifting up the ranks, rising the platform’s client and analytics merchandise, and constructing its promoting enterprise.
Apart from rising two tech titans, Wojcicki was dedicated to bettering the office for ladies and oldsters, being the primary to take parental go away at Google and advocating for insurance policies within the workforce, wrote NPR.
“Susan always put others first, both in her values and in the day-to-day. I’ll never forget her kindness to me as a prospective ‘Noogler’ 20 years ago,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a press release Saturday. “During my Google interview, she took me out for an ice cream and a walk around campus. I was sold—on Google and Susan.”
In 2006, Wojcicki advocated for Google’s then-$1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube and oversaw its speedy enlargement over the previous decade, in addition to navigating the platform’s battles controlling hate speech, misinformation, and inappropriate content material.
“I had the good fortune of meeting Susan 17 years ago, when she was the architect of the DoubleClick acquisition,” wrote present YouTube CEO Neal Mohan in a social media publish Friday night time. “Her legacy lives on in everything she touched at Google and YouTube.”
