Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube and longtime Google executive, has died, her husband said. She was 56 years old.
“My beloved wife of 26 years and mother of our five children left us today after 2 years living with non-small cell lung cancer,” Dennis Troper said in a social media post Friday.
“Susan was not only my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother and a dear friend to many,” Troper said.
No other details of his death were immediately provided.
Wojcicki, who played a key role in the creation of Google, went down as CEO of YouTube in 2023, after spending nine years running the video-sharing service that reshaped entertainment, culture and politics.
Shortly after Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their search engine into a business in 1998, Wojcicki rented them the garage of his home in Menlo Park, California, for $1,700 a month.
Wojcicki and Troper’s 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, died in February on the UC Berkeley campus, where he resided as a freshman student.
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