Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive, has died at 56 [Video]

FILE – YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki speakes during a conversation at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. Her husband. Dennis Troper said in a statement on social media late Friday, AUg. 9, 2024 that Wojcicki, who was 56, died after suffering with small cell lung cancer for the past two years. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (Markus Schreiber, Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Susan Wojcicki, a pioneering tech executive who helped shape Google and YouTube, has died, her husband said. She was 56.

Wojcicki played a key role in Google’s creation and served nine years as YouTube’s CEO, stepping down last year to focus on her “family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about,” she said at the time.

She was one of the most respected female executives in the male-dominated tech industry.

Her collaboration with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brinbegan shortly after they incorporated their search engine into a business in 1998. …

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