Dennis Troper, Susan Wojcicki’s husband, said on Friday night that his wife had passed away after a protracted fight with cancer that lasted for two years.
The loss has occurred of Susan Wojcicki, who served as the former CEO of YouTube and whose garage in California was the birthplace of Google. 56 was her age.
Dennis Troper, an official at Google, revealed on Facebook on Friday that Wojcicki had passed away after a two-year fight with non-small cell lung cancer. Wojcicki was acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of technology.
When I heard the news that Susan Wojcicki had passed away, I was overcome with an overwhelming sense of sorrow. According to a post that Troper made on Facebook, “My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children passed away today after two years of living with non-small cell lung cancer.” It is not enough to say that Susan was my closest friend and life partner; she was also a bright thinker, a loving mother, and a loyal friend to a great number of others. She had an incalculable influence on both our family and the world at large. Our hearts are devastated, but we are thankful for the time we were able to spend with her. While we are going through this challenging period, we ask that you remember our family in your thoughts.
On X, Sundar Pichai, the Chief Executive Officer of Google and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, paid homage to Wojcicki.
Susan Wojcicki, a great friend of mine who had been battling illness for two years, passed away recently. I am overwhelmed with grief over her passing. According to a tweet that he sent, “She is as fundamental to the history of Google as anyone else, and it is difficult to imagine the world without her.” She was a fantastic person, a leader, and a friend who had a big influence on the world, and I am one of the numerous Google employees who is better off as a result of having an acquaintance with her. We are going to miss her terribly. We are keeping her family in our thoughts. So long, Susan.
In the year 1998, Wojcicki leased out her garage in the state of California in order to assist her in paying off her mortgage. She leased it out to students at Stanford University named Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who went on to establish a commercial enterprise and build the search engine that would eventually become known as Google. Brin even tied the knot with Wojcicki’s sister, Anne Wojcicki, who was the co-founder of 23andMe, from 2007 to 2015.
When Wojcicki left her secure career at Intel Corporation in 1999 to join the start-up business Google, she was four months pregnant with her first child. She was the sixteenth employee of the company at the time. In spite of the fact that many of her close friends and coworkers thought the move was insane, Wojcicki would later describe it as one of the finest choices she had ever made in her life.
She swiftly rose through the ranks at Google, eventually becoming the company’s senior vice president of advertising and commerce. She is mainly credited with the creation of Google Images and Google Books thanks to her contributions. After Google paid an astounding $1.65 billion to acquire YouTube in 2006, Wojcicki was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of the site.
Wojcicki received her education at Harvard University, where she worked in the fields of history and literature. After that, she went on to get a master’s degree in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, as well as a master’s degree in business administration from UCLA.
Both Wojcicki’s spouse and her five children will go on after her passing.