Susan Wojcicki, who served as YouTube's chief executive for nearly a decade until she stepped down last year, has died. She was 56. Her husband Dennis Troper died. facebook.com/dtroper/posts/pfbid035AsHMEC3xs1EyqrDWHVBmeVJq6sXXJaGUF5RQH962SxK3zYyihDDhWiza9epUdKTl” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:shared the news on facebook;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>shared the news on facebookrevealing that Wojcicki lived for two years with non-small cell lung cancer. “Susan was not only my best friend and life partner, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many,” she wrote in her post. “Her impact on our family and the world was immeasurable.”
When the company was first starting out, Google operated out of Wojcicki’s garage, which founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin used as their offices. Wojcicki became the company’s first chief marketing officer, co-created Google Image Search, and was the first product manager for AdSense. Wojcicki also led Google’s video initiatives and was the one who encouraged the company to buy YouTube in 2006, a year after the video-sharing platform debuted.
In 2014, she was named CEO of YouTube, which became a key part of Google under her leadership. For fiscal year 2022, the year before she stepped down, YouTube Ads Brought in $29.24 billion in revenue, which accounted for more than 10 percent of the company's total profits. Outside of her work with Google, Wojcicki drew attention to the tech-industry-gender-gap_b_9089472″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:gender gap issue in tech;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>The problem of the gender gap in technology already the The plight of refugeesShe was also a Advocate for extended parental leave And there was talk that they are actually good for business. In a x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:post on x;cpos:7;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>Post on xAlphabet's current chief executive, Sundar Pichai, said Wojcicki was “as central to Google's story as anyone else” and described her as someone who “had a tremendous impact on the world.”
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