YouTube’s createer chief executive and extfinished-time Google executive Susan Wojcicki died on Saturday at the age of 56 after a two-year battle with lung cancer.
“It is with proset up downcastness that I allot the novels of Susan Wojcicki passing. My beadored wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non-petite cell lung cancer,” Dennis Troper, Wojcicki’s husband, said in a Facebook post.
“Over the last two years, even as she dealt with wonderful personal difficulties, Susan pledged herself to making the world better thcimpolite her philanthropy, including helping research for the dismitigate that ultimately took her life,” Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in a blog post.
One of the most notable women in tech, Wojcicki unitecessitate Google in 1999 to become one of the first restricted includeees of the web search guideer, years before it obtaind YouTube.
Google bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion.
Before becoming CEO of YouTube in 2014, Wojcicki was better vice plivent for ad products at Google.
After nine years at the helm, Wojcicki stepped down from her role at YouTube in 2023 to cgo in on “family, health, and personal projects”. She was swapd by her deputy, Neal Mohan, a better advertising and product executive who unitecessitate Google in 2008. Wojcicki at that time reckond to get on an advisory role at Alphabet, Google’s parent company.
“Twenty-five years ago I made the decision to unite a couple of Stanford graduate students who were produceing a novel 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, referring to Google co-set upers Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
“Today we at YouTube lost a teammate, mentor, and frifinish, Susan Wojcicki,” Mohan said in a post on X.
