Susan Wojcicki, the former YouTube chief executive officer and longtime Google executive, has died. Her husband, Dennis Troper, said in a statement posted on social media late Friday that Wojcicki, who was 56, has died after suffering with non small cell lung cancer for the past two years.

Susan Wojcicki, a pioneering tech executive who helped shape Google and YouTube, has died, her husband said. She was 56.

Wojcicki played a key role in Google’s creation and served nine years as YouTube’s CEO, stepping down last year to focus on her “family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about,” she said at the time.

  • @expatriado
    24•4 months ago

    was she the lady that rented the garage?

    • worldwidewave
      38•4 months ago

      Yep

      Her collaboration with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin began shortly after they incorporated their search engine into a business in 1998. Wojcicki rented the garage of her Menlo Park, California, home to them for $1,700 a month, cementing a formative partnership. Page and Brin — both 25 at the time — continued to refine their search engine in Wojcicki’s garage for five months before moving Google into a more formal office and later persuaded their former landlord to come work for their company.

        • @mean_bean279English
          7•4 months ago

          It was in Menlo Park. Any space in that area is a premium so the rent fee and the size is kind of irrelevant.

          • @SpaceNoodle
            4•4 months ago

            I know what the prices are like in the Bay Area - I lived there for a significant fraction of my life. $1,700 in 1998 dollars is around $3,300 today. In the mid-to-late 2010s I was paying about $4k for around 1,300 square feet, so there’s still something amiss.

  • @3ntranced
    -2•4 months ago

    Is everyone forgetting she led the charge toward the enshittification of YouTube? Like when she stepped down 2 years ago the general concensus was “Thank God shes gone”?

    • Shadow
      9•4 months ago

      She’s still a person, and nobody deserves cancer.