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YouTube's former chief Susan Wojcicki dies aged 56

One of Google's earliest employees, Ms Wojcicki had been ill with lung cancer for two years.

Google's chief executive Sundar Pichai announced that Ms Wojcicki had passed away after two years of living with lung cancer. Once described as the "most important Googler you've never heard of", Ms Wojcicki was present at the company's beginnings when, in 1998, she rented out her Menlo Park garage to the search engine firm's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Ms Wojcicki would go on to lead YouTube, the online video sharing company owned by Google, for nine years until 2023 when she stepped down to focus "on my family, health and personal projects I'm passionate about".

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