Tragedy has again struck a famous Silicon Valley family. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away, according to social media posts by her husband, Dennis Troper, and by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Wrote Troper on Facebook earlier Friday night, “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki passing.

  • metaStatic
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    563 months ago

    I have no love for the CEO class but no one deserves to go that young.

    Fuck Cancer.

  • @[email protected]
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    373 months ago

    Oh fuck.

    I worked for Susan, I stan very few tech people but she was fucking great.

    Her kids are at least in their teens by now, but wow that sucks.

    • XNX
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      53 months ago

      One of her kids also died last yesr. Sad asf

  • Transient Punk
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    3 months ago

    …left us today after 2 years of living with non-small cell lung cancer.

    • DacoTaco
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      153 months ago

      So thats why she stepped down huh

  • @bigboismith
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    233 months ago

    Ah man. Not to say she was great, but it felt like she tried to limit enshitification in hindsight. It could have been a lot worse

    • @colderr
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      53 months ago

      Very young for anyone.

  • @aeronmelon
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    53 months ago

    I hate hearing the term “passed away” used for someone who died decades before their time.

  • @Etterra
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    23 months ago

    Well cancer sucks in general so my sympathy is to her family I guess? Otherwise I don’t give a shit. YouTube sucks.

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    3 months ago

    YouTube has only gotten worse so i can’t say i particularly care. i hope her successor isn’t any worse, but i expect they will be.

    • DacoTaco
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      53 months ago

      Fyi, she euh, stepped down from youtube in feb 2023. She had nothing to do with youtube in the last year :')

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          3 months ago

          No, but her successor has been in charge for at least a year now haha.
          Op was talking about her successor like they were yet to be appointed

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          All free services are all just waiting to monetise.

          The default is shittiness. They just play nice to build users.