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Susan Wojcicki
Susan Diane Wojcicki was an American business executive who was the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. Her net worth was estimated at $765 million in 2022.
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business · American business executive (1968–2024) · businessperson · manager · tech VIP · also Susan Wojcicki, Susan Diane Wojcicki, Wojcicki
Born 5 July 1968 · Died 9 August 2024 · Q55183
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2026· 5 entries
Public attention spiked: 4,486 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.8× the usual 1,192, with 0 article edits.
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The Business Journals: Lung cancer took tech exec Susan Wojcicki's life. Now her family is doubling down on early diagnosis, treatment
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Yahoo: Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Died of Lung Cancer. Now, Her Family is Relaunching a Foundation to Prevent Similar Tragedies
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Time: Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Died From Lung Cancer in 2024. Her Family Is Trying to Find Out Why
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2024· 8 entries
Yahoo: Dying of Cancer, Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Wrote a Final Message and Shared Her 'Most Important Lesson'
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E!: YouTube Reveals Former CEO Susan Wojcicki's Final Message Before Her Death
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AOL: Susan Wojcicki, YouTube CEO, died at 56 from a type of lung cancer that is often diagnosed late
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Yahoo! Sports: Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died at 56
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Yahoo! Sports: Susan Wojcicki, Former YouTube CEO and Influential Google Exec, Dies at 56
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At the age of 56, after living with non-small-cell lung cancer for two years
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Died 2024-08-09.
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Wojcicki's son Marco Troper, a 19-year-old student at the University of California, Berkeley, died of acute drug abuse
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2023· 4 entries
Published video “5 questions with former CEO of YouTube Susan Wojcicki *Barbie You Can Be Anything*”.
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Wojcicki announced her resignation from YouTube via a company blog post
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“family, health, and personal projects”
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Ranked #32 on Forbes's list of America's Self-Made Women
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2022· 5 entries
Published video “A Red Diamond for MrBeast! #Shorts”.
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Published video “A visit to Ludwig's CEO headquarters #Shorts”.
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Published video “Gifting Ludwig a very special YouTube chair! #Shorts”.
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Published video “Talking leadership lessons with Google Fellow Diane Tang”.
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Published video “Our 2022 Priorities”.
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2021· 5 entries
Published video “KevOnStage Interviews Susan | Trailer”.
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Published video “Joining the first-ever CodeHouse Conversation (and surprise announcement!)”.
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Published video “Cleaning a beach with Mark Rober | #TeamSeas”.
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Published video “ZHC shares how he customized his way to 20 million subscribers | Milestone Meetups”.
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Wojcicki was presented the "Free Expression Award" by the Freedom Forum Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing First Amendment freedoms
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2020· 1 entry
The company launched YouTube Shorts, its short-form video experience, which surpassed 50 billion daily views in February 2023
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2018· 4 entries
Wojcicki wrote that Article 13, as written in the European Union Copyright Directive, would make YouTube directly liable for copyrighted content, and poses a threat to content creators' ability to share their work
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Announced the initiative YouTube Learning, which invests in grants and promotion to support education focused creator content
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Wojcicki ranked #7 on Forbes's list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women
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Ranked #10 on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women
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2015· 1 entry
And described in a later issue of Time as "the most powerful woman on the Internet
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2014· 3 entries
Ahead of taking her fifth maternity leave, she wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal about the importance of paid maternity leave
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (2014–2023).
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Serving until resigning in February 2023
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2013· 1 entry
Was named #1 on the Adweek Top 50 Execs list, which recognizes the top media executives within an organization
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2011).
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2003· 1 entry
Wojcicki was the first product manager of one of Google's seminal advertising products—AdSense
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1999· 2 entries
Leading the company's online advertising business and original video service
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Wojcicki worked in marketing at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, and was a management consultant at Bain & Company and at R
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1998· 2 entries
Studied at UCLA Anderson School of Management, Master of Business Administration (1996–1998).
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When she rented out her garage as an office to the company's founders
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1993· 2 entries
From the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her MBA in 1998 from the UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Studied at University of California, Santa Cruz, Master of Science (1991–1993).
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1990· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts (1986–1990).
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1968· 2 entries
The daughter of Esther Wojcicki, an American journalist, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish physics professor at Stanford University
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Born 1968-07-05.
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