Susan Wojcicki, Former YouTube CEO and Influential Google Exec, Dies at 56

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Susan Wojcicki, Former

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CEO and Influential

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Exec, ***** at 56

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, who served as CEO of

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for nine years during a ******* of massive growth for the video platform and was one of

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’s first hires, ***** on Friday, Aug. 9. She was 56.

Wojcicki’s ****** after a two-year ****** with ******* was announced by her husband, Dennis Troper, in a public post Friday evening on

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“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 *******,” Troper wrote in the

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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.”

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, CEO of

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and Alphabet, in a tribute

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on X said, “Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend @SusanWojcicki after two years of living with *******. She is as core to the history of

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as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her.” Pichai continued, “She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous impact on the world and I’m one of countless Googlers who is better for knowing her. We will miss her dearly. Our thoughts with her family. RIP Susan.”

Wojcicki joined

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in 1999 as the 16th employee, becoming the search engine’s first marketing exec. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin initially ran the company out of her garage in Menlo Park, Calif. Among her other accomplishments, she cut the company’s first deals to license search technology and led the initial development of

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’s image search.

In February 2014, 

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’s appointment of Wojcicki, one of the company’s most senior execs, reflected how important the video platform had become to its advertising business. She

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, while remaining an adviser to the company.

Neal Mohan, who succeeded Wojcicki as

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CEO, said he’d had “the good fortune of meeting Susan 17 years ago when when she was the architect of the DoubleClick acquisition,” the ad-tech company where he had been an executive. “Her legacy lives on in everything she touched @

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and @

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,” Mohan

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. “I am forever grateful for her friendship and guidance. I will miss her tremendously. My heart goes out to her family and loved ones.”

In her multiple stints at

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, Wojcicki had overseen product management of AdSense,

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Book Search and

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Video as well as the syndication of the company’s products. Prior to

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, she worked at Intel, Bain & Co. and R.B. Webber & Co.

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