Susan Wojcicki died at the age of 56
Google Co-founder Susan Wojcicki passed away due to lung cancer aged 56 in Santa Clara, California. Wojcicki, who was Google’s Co-founder and CEO of YouTube, founded YouTube in 1998 at the age of 26. She later served as the CEO of YouTube until Google acquired it in 2006. Wojcicki had also served as a board member of Salesforce.com.
Susan Wojcicki was the former CEO and visionary of YouTube
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweeted, “The world is built by people.” “What Susan Wojcicki built in an incredibly complex environment isvery special and head and shoulders above what others created,” he added. Meanwhile, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan said Wojcicki was one of the first to take maternity leave and she was one of the first to advocate for parental leave.