Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki passed away at the age of 56 after a two-year battle with lung cancer, Reuters reported.
“It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki passing. 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,” Dennis Troper, Wojcicki’s husband, said in a Facebook post.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said: “Over the last two years, even as she dealt with great personal difficulties, Susan devoted herself to making the world better through her philanthropy, including supporting research for the disease that ultimately took her life.”
Prior to Google, Wojcicki worked at Intel and Bain & Company. She joined Google in 1999 to become one of the few female employees of the Web search leader, a few years before it acquired YouTube. Wojcicki was senior vice president of ad products at Google before she became YouTube’s chief operating officer in 2014.
Wojcicki stepped down from her role at YouTube in 2023 to focus on family, health and personal projects. She ended up being replaced by her deputy, Neal Mohan, a senior advertising and product manager who joined Google in 2008. At the time, Wojcicki planned to take an advisory role at Alphabet, Google’s parent company.
