Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died.
She was aged 56 years.
The tech pioneer, who was one of Google’s earliest employees, died after living with lung cancer for two years.
News of her death was announced by her husband, Dennis Troper in a Facebook post.
Mrs Wojcicki had been involved with YouTube’s parent company Google from its earliest days, when its two founders worked out of her garage in California to build a search engine.
Wojcicki was named the CEO of YouTube in 2014. She introduced new forms of ads and helped steer its growth by launching a streaming television service as viewers increasingly turned to the internet for shows and films.
She also oversaw the company as it navigated concerns over child privacy, hate speech and the spread of misinformation, notably during the Covid-19 pandemic.
She later became Google’s 16th employee and had worked at the company for nearly 25 years.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressed condolences in a post on X today, saying Wojcicki was “core” to Google’s history.
