Susan Wojcicki served as YouTube’s CEO for almost a decade fell down died last year. He was 56 years old. She has a husband, Dennis Troper shared the news on FacebookIt revealed that Wojcicki had been living with non-small cell lung cancer for two years. “Susan was not only my best friend and wife, but also a brilliant mind, a loving mother and a dear friend to many,” he wrote in his post. “His impact on our family and the world was immeasurable.”
When Google started the company, it worked out of Wojcicki’s garage, which co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin also used as an office. He became the company’s first marketing manager, co-founded Google Image Search, and became AdSense’s first product manager. Wojcicki also led Google’s video efforts and was the one who pushed the company to buy YouTube in 2006, a year after the video-sharing platform debuted.
In 2014, he was appointed CEO of YouTube, which became a major part of Google under his leadership. For fiscal year 2022, the year before he steps down, YouTube ads brought It generated $29.24 billion in revenue, which is more than 10 percent of the company’s total profit. Wojcicki drew attention outside of her work with Google the problem of the gender gap in technology and for plight of refugees. He is also a in favor of long parent leaves and talked about how they were really good for the job. a Type in XAlphabet’s current CEO, Sundar Pichai, said Wojcicki was “as central to Google’s history as anyone” and described her as someone who had “an enormous impact on the world.”
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