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Former YouTube CEO Passes Away At 56
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki passed away after a two-year battle with cancer.
She was 56.
“My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non-small cell lung cancer,” Wojcicki’s husband, Dennis Troper, wrote on Facebook.
“Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many. Her impact on our family and the world was immeasurable. We are heartbroken, but grateful for the time we had with her. Please keep our family in your thoughts as we navigate this difficult time,” he added.
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away at the age of 56 after battling cancer.
RIP pic.twitter.com/SOfNOPlAKB
— DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) August 10, 2024
#BREAKING: Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has just passed away after battling with cancer she was 56 years old pic.twitter.com/3Ig2SHc5d3
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 10, 2024
Per Fox Business:
Wojcicki and Troper got married in 1998.
Earlier this year, one of their children, Marco Troper, was found dead inside a dorm room at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sunder Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google, wrote on the social media platform X that he is “Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend” after learning of Wojcicki’s passing.
“She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her,” he wrote. “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.”
Wojcicki resigned from YouTube in February 2023 to “start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects.”
Wojcicki served as YouTube CEO from 2014 to 2023.
BREAKING Former CEO Susan Wojcicki dead at age 56.
This comes after her 19 Year Old Son was found dead in his dorm room at UC Berkeley in February pic.twitter.com/Z1rVi8kQzV
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) August 10, 2024
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
People reports:
Wojcicki became CEO of YouTube in 2014. She was a prominent figure during the emergence and development of video-sharing in social media and held her position as CEO for nine years before stepping down in February 2023.
YouTube CEO, Neal Mohan, wrote of his predecessor at the company on X (formerly Twitter): “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 her friendship and guidance. I will miss her tremendously,” he added, before concluding his message by passing on his condolences to her family.
Wojcicki’s career started as one of just 16 employees working at Google in 1999. She became the first marketing executive there and the one in charge when the company branched out to Google Video in 2005 and purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion the next year, per Variety.
While working at Google, Wojcicki also led the early development of Google’s image search and supervised product management of Google Book Search and AdSense according to the outlet.