The Daily Populous Saturday August 10th, 2024 day edition
Authored by moneycontrol.com and submitted by cardscook77

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away at the age of 56, after battling cancer for two years. The news of her demise was shared by Wojcicki's husband Dennis Troper in a Facebook post.

"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" Troper said in a post on August 10.

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"Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many. Her impact on our family and the world was immeasurable. We are heartbroken, but grateful for the time we had with her. Please keep our family in your thoughts as we navigate this difficult time" he said.

Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai also shared his tribute to Wojcicki in a post on X, previously Twitter, on August 10.

"Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend @SusanWojcicki after two years of living with cancer. She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and itâ€™s hard to imagine the world without her. She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous impact on the world and Iâ€™m one of countless Googlers who is better for knowing her. We will miss her dearly. Our thoughts with her family. RIP Susan," he wrote.

Wojcicki had stepped down as YouTube CEO in February 2023 after nine years at the helm. At the time, Wojcicki said she would focus on "family, health, and personal projects I'm passionate about."

Neal Mohan, then chief product officer of the Google-owned video platform, became the new head of YouTube.

In a post on Meta's Threads on August 10, Mohan saidÂ he had the "good fortune of meeting Susan 17 years ago when she was the architect of the DoubleClick acquisition. Her legacy lives on in everything she touched at Google and YouTube"

"I am forever grateful for her friendship, guidance and impact on my life. I will miss her tremendously. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones" he said.

Wojcicki was vital to the founding of Google (now Alphabet), having rented garage space in her parent's house to co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start the company in 1998. She joined the tech giant as its 16th employee and its first marketing executiveÂ in 1999, stayingÂ with the company for 25 years.

During her stint, Wojcicki oversaw the development of multipleÂ advertising and measurement platform products, including AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, and Google Analytics.Â She also led the initial development of several consumer products including Google Images, Google Books, and (now-defunct) Google Video. She was named as YouTube CEO in 2014.

Wojcicki's sister Anne Wojcicki, who co-founded personal genomics company 23andMe, was married to Brin until their divorce in 2015. Wojcicki's other sister Janet Wojcicki was an anthropologist and epidemiologist.

She is the daughter of Esther Wojcicki, an American journalist and educator, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish physics professor emeritus at Stanford University.

The former YouTube CEO married Troper, the product lead for Google Consumer Trust's User Data team, in 1998. They had five children.

Wojcicki's demise is the second tragedy in the family, after her oldest son 19-year-old Marco Troper died of a reported drug overdose at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a freshman.

CraftyFoxeYT on August 10th, 2024 at 06:39 UTC »

From Wikipedia: "She became involved in the creation of Google in 1998 when she rented out her garage as an office to the company's founders. She worked as Google's first marketing manager in 1999, and later led the company's online advertising business and original video service.

After observing the success of YouTube, she suggested that Google should buy it; the deal was approved for $1.65 billion in 2006. She was appointed CEO of YouTube in 2014, serving until resigning in February 2023."

CrispyMiner on August 10th, 2024 at 06:07 UTC »

Is that why she stepped down? That really sucks

goforth1457 on August 10th, 2024 at 05:42 UTC »

Her son had also passed away earlier this year from a drug overdose. This year has been so unfortunate for her family, I can't imagine how they are dealing with these circumstances.