Posted on 08/10/2024 7:42:12 AM PDT by dennisw
Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO, died at 56 after living with lung cancer. Wojcicki led YouTube from 2014 to 2023. She is survived by her husband, Dennis Troper, and their children.
Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, died "after two years of living with cancer," Alphabet CEO Sunder Pichai wrote on X, adding that he was "unbelievably saddened by the loss." She was 56.
"She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it's hard to imagine the world without her," Pichai continued. "She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous impact on the world and I'm one of countless Googlers who is better for knowing her. We will miss her dearly. Our thoughts with her family. RIP Susan." Wojcicki is survived by her mother, journalist and educator Esther Wojcicki; her sisters, Janet, an anthropologist and epidemiologist, and Anne, the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe; her husband, Dennis Troper, and their four living children.
Wojcicki was predeceased by her father, Polish American physicist Stanley Wojcicki, and her son Marco, who died in February of this year. He was 19 years old.
Wojcicki married Troper in 1998.
On Facebook, Troper wrote on Friday night: "My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non small cell lung cancer."
"Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many," Troper wrote.
Many prominent tech figures have also paid tribute to the late executive.
Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, described Wojcicki in a post on X as "a trailblazer in the industry, an exemplary mother, and a cherished friend."
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Aw shucks.
She died young.
I hope she came to Christ.
Susan Wojcicki, her sister Anne was first wife of Sergy Brin.
The Wojcickis are quite the connected SV family!!!!
turbocancer? vax? smoker?
Darn.
Very likely all three. Sad.
56? wow. that’s young.
In honor of her...I’ll censor my comments.
I bet the clot shot gave her cancer. She dies doing what she loved.
Silicon Valley royalty.
Dang, I was trying to get in before the vax question.
Just moving slow this morning.
Valid question, though.
She urged Google to buy YouTube, and eventually instituted a policy of deplatforming, beginning with the most extreme type, and then expanding the censorship net.
YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China’s Communist Party.
Google broadens takedown of extremist YouTube videos.
YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed.
YouTube Is Banning All Content That Spreads Vaccine Misinformation.
There may be cosmic justice.
That said, 56 is too young, and I’m sorry for her families loss.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
“turbocancer? vax? smoker?”
I have no theory, but I live in the Bay Area, and I will note that among women of her age (50s), education (Harvard) and socioeconomic status (super-rich), tobacco use is very, very low. In other words, it’d be pretty unusual for someone like her to be a cigarette smoker. Not impossible, but statistically unlikely. Cannabis smoker would be more likely.
I don’t know how much cannabis is linked to lung cancer but it sure ain’t healthy for them I would guess.
The timing is what triggered me. 2 years with cancer puts its diagnosis somewhere in 2022. That’s right in the wheelhouse of the vax.
From Proverbs 10 today:
27 The fear of the Lord prolongs life,
but the years of the wicked will be short.
28 The hope of the righteous ends in gladness,
but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing.
29 The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the upright,
but destruction for evildoers.
30 The righteous will never be removed,
but the wicked will not remain in the land.
31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom,
but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
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