Susan Wojcicki, Internet Pioneer at Google, YouTube, Dies at 56
- Among the highest-profile female executives in Silicon Valley
- She joined fledgling Google in 1999 as just its 16th employee
Susan Wojcicki
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Susan Wojcicki, an early Google executive and long-time head of its YouTube video service who shaped how fortunes and fame are created on the internet, has died. She was 56.
Wojcicki died after a two-year battle with cancer, according to social media posts by her husband, Dennis Troper, and Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of YouTube parent Alphabet Inc.