Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies Of Cancer Aged 56
Tech pioneer and former YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki, who played an instrumental role in the rise of Google, has died at the age of 56 after battling lung cancer, her husband announced Friday.
Wojcicki, one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, spent nearly two decades helping transform Google from the search engine startup that was launched in her garage to a global tech behemoth.
At YouTube, which Google acquired in 2006, Wojcicki helmed operations for nearly a decade, before stepping down last year to focus on her family, health and personal projects.
Her husband, Dennis Troper, wrote on Facebook that she had been living with lung cancer for the last two years.
“My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today,” he wrote.
