Susan Wojcicki, a pioneering tech executive who assisted shape Google and YouTube, has passedaway, her partner stated. She was 56.
Wojcicki played a secret function in Google’s production and served 9 years as YouTube’s CEO, stepping down last year to focus on her “family, health, and individual tasks I’m enthusiastic about,” she stated at the time.
She was one of the most appreciated female executives in the male-dominated tech market.
Her cooperation with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started quickly after they included their search engine into a company in1998 Wojcicki leased the garage of her Menlo Park, California, home to them for $1,700 a month, sealing a developmental collaboration. Page and Brin — both 25 at the time — continued to improve their search engine in Wojcicki’s garage for 5 months before moving Google into a more official workplace and lateron encouraged their previous propertymanager to come work for their business.
Wojcicki signedupwith Google, now understood as Alphabet, as its marketing supervisor in 1999 and served in numerous positions as Google grew its online marketing existence by obtaining YouTube in 2006 and DoubleClick in2008 She served as Google’s senior vice president of marketing and commerce from 20