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Susan Wojcicki, one in every of Google’s earliest workers and the previous chief government of its video web site YouTube, has died at 56.
Her husband Dennis Troper introduced the information on Fb. “It’s with profound unhappiness that I share the information of Susan Wojcicki passing,” he mentioned. “My beloved spouse of 26 years and mom to our 5 youngsters left us at this time after 2 years of residing with non-small cell lung most cancers.” He referred to as her “an excellent thoughts, a loving mom, and a pricey pal to many”.
Sundar Pichai, chief government of Google guardian Alphabet, mentioned in a publish on X that he was “unbelievably saddened”.
“She is as core to the historical past of Google as anybody, and it’s arduous to think about the world with out her,” he mentioned. “She was an unimaginable particular person, chief and pal who had an amazing impression on the world.”
Throughout Google’s earliest days, its founders Larry Web page and Sergey Brin constructed the search engine from Wojcicki’s storage at her residence in Menlo Park. In 1999 she turned its sixteenth worker, working its promoting enterprise for nearly 15 years. After being concerned in Google’s acquisition of YouTube in 2006, she ran the video web site from 2014 till she stepped down final yr.
