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Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies at 56
Susan Wojcicki is one of this era's great unsung executives—and was crucial to Google's trajectory from its very beginnings in her garage.
Here was the garage once packed with newly delivered servers and routers; there were the carpeted rooms at the back of the house where Page, Brin, and their first employee Craig Silverstein churned out code; out the window was the backyard with the hot tub. When another early Googler, Salar Kamangar, left the top role of YouTube in 2014, it already had a billion users and was one of the world’s major media properties; the predictable move would have been for CEO Larry Page to tap an experienced industry hand to take it to the next level. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who himself was mentored by Wojcicki, wrote, “Her loss is devastating for all of us who know and love her, for the thousands of Googlers she led over the years, and for millions of people all over the world who looked up to her, benefited from her advocacy and leadership, and felt the impact of the incredible things she created at Google, YouTube, and beyond.”
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