Susan Wojcicki, Former YouTube CEO, Dies at 56
By Rediff Money Desk, Oklahoma City Aug 10, 2024 17:23
Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive, has passed away at the age of 56 after a battle with lung cancer. Wojcicki played a key role in Google's founding and led YouTube for nine years.
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Oklahoma City (US), Aug 10 (AP) Former Youtube chief executive officer and long-time Google executive Susan Wojcicki has died at age 56, according to her husband.
"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, Dennis Troper said in a social media post late Friday.
Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many, Troper said.
No other details of her death were immediately provided.
Wojcicki, who played a key role in Google's creation, stepped down as YouTube's CEO in 2023 after spending nine years running the video site that reshaped entertainment, culture and politics.
Shortly after Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their search engine into a business in 1998, Wojcicki rented the garage of her Menlo Park, California, home to them for $1,700 a month.
Wojcicki and Troper's 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, died in February at the UC Berkely campus where he resided as a freshman student.
"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, Dennis Troper said in a social media post late Friday.
Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many, Troper said.
No other details of her death were immediately provided.
Wojcicki, who played a key role in Google's creation, stepped down as YouTube's CEO in 2023 after spending nine years running the video site that reshaped entertainment, culture and politics.
Shortly after Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their search engine into a business in 1998, Wojcicki rented the garage of her Menlo Park, California, home to them for $1,700 a month.
Wojcicki and Troper's 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, died in February at the UC Berkely campus where he resided as a freshman student.
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