Former YouTube CEO Susan Diane Wojcicki is dead.
She passed away on aged 56 as she was battling lung cancer for about two years.
Wojcicki’s death comes months after her son Marco Troper died from a drug overdose.
She was CEO of YouTube from 2014 to 2023, serving as the pioneer female tech boss.
She was involved in the creation of tech giant, Google in 1998 when she rented out her garage as an office to the company’s founders.
Her death was first announced by her husband, Dennis Troper on social media, with other tech executives posting tributes to her.
Recognition
Following her position as YouTube CEO, she named one of Time‘s 100 most influential people in 2015 and described in a later issue of Time as “the most powerful woman on the Internet.”
In 2018, Wojcicki ranked #7 on Forbes‘s list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
Also, ranked #10 on Fortune‘s list of Most Powerful Women the same year.
In 2023, she ranked #32 on Forbes‘s list of America’s Self-Made Women.
