A pioneering tech executive who helped shape Google and YouTube, Mrs Susan Wojcicki has died, her husband announced. She was 56.
Wojcicki a founding staff of Google and played a key role in the company’s creation. She served nine years as YouTube’s CEO, stepping down last year to focus on her “family, health, and personal projects she is passionate about.
The Information technology expert was one of the most respected female executives in the male-dominated tech industry.Her alliance with Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the two other co-founders of Google, started soon after they transformed their search engine into a company in 1998.
Wojcicki rented the garage of her Menlo Park, California, house to them, for $1,700 a month, building an early alliance. Both Page and Brin, who were 25 years old at the time, spent five months developing their search engine in Wojcicki’s garage before relocating Google into a more official office and subsequently recruiting their former landlord to join the team.
The CEO Google and Aphabet, Sundar Pichar in a note to employyes said Mrs Wojcick loss is devastating for all of us who know and love her, for the thousands of Googlers she led over the years, and for millions of people all over the world who looked up to her, benefited from her advocacy and leadership role, and felt the impact of the incredible things she created at Google, YouTube, and beyond.
Her husband , Dennis Troper in his social media on Friday wrote “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.
“She 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 and Troper’s 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, died in Fubruary at the UC Berkeley campus where he resided as a freshman student.
