Long-time Google exec Susan Wojcicki has died at 56

Susan Wojcicki, Google’s 16th worker who helped jumpstart the institution successful her garage, ran its advertizing business, and past helmed YouTube for astir of the past decade, has died astatine 56, according to posts by her husband Dennis Troper and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Googlers,

By present you whitethorn person heard the quality that Susan Wojcicki has passed distant aft 2 years of surviving with lung cancer. Even arsenic I constitute this it feels intolerable to maine that it’s true. Susan was 1 of the astir progressive and vibrant radical I person ever met. Her nonaccomplishment is devastating for each of america who cognize and emotion her, for the thousands of Googlers she led implicit the years, and for millions of radical each implicit the satellite who looked up to her, benefited from her advocacy and leadership, and felt the interaction of the unthinkable things she created astatine Google, YouTube, and beyond.

Susan’s journey, from the store she rented to Larry and Sergey … to starring teams crossed user products and gathering our Ads concern … to becoming the CEO of YouTube, 1 of the world’s astir important platforms, is inspiring by immoderate measure. But she didn’t halt there. As 1 of the earliest Googlers — and the archetypal to instrumentality maternity permission — Susan utilized her presumption to physique a amended workplace for everyone. And successful the years that followed, her advocacy astir parental permission acceptable a caller modular for businesses everywhere. Susan was besides profoundly passionate astir education. She realized aboriginal connected that YouTube could beryllium a learning level for the satellite and championed “edutubers” — particularly those who extended the scope of STEM acquisition to underserved communities.

Over the past 2 years, adjacent arsenic she dealt with large idiosyncratic difficulties, Susan devoted herself to making the satellite amended done her philanthropy, including supporting probe for the illness that yet took her life. I cognize that was precise meaningful to her and I’m truthful gladsome she took the clip to bash it.

Susan ever enactment others first, some successful her values and successful the time to day. I’ll ne'er hide her kindness to maine arsenic a prospective “Noogler” 20 years ago. During my Google interrogation she took maine retired for an crystal pick and a locomotion astir campus. I was sold - connected Google and Susan.

I consciousness truthful fortunate to person spent truthful galore years moving with Susan closely, arsenic I’m definite galore of you bash — she was perfectly loved by her teams here. Her clip connected world was acold excessively short, but she made each infinitesimal count.

We’re successful adjacent interaction with Susan’s family, including her hubby and chap Googler, Dennis. We volition stock much soon astir however we’re going to observe her unthinkable life. In the meantime, let’s grant Susan’s representation by continuing to physique a Google she would beryllium arrogant of.

-Sundar