Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies at 56 After Battle with Lung Cancer

Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, paid tribute to Susan Wojcicki’s dedication to philanthropy even as she faced immense personal challenges.

Susan Wojcicki
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of YouTube and a long-serving Google executive, passed away on Saturday at the age of 56 after a two-year struggle with lung cancer.

Her husband, Dennis Troper, shared the heartbreaking news on Facebook, stating, “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki’s passing. My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non-small cell lung cancer.”

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Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, paid tribute to Susan Wojcicki

Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, paid tribute to Wojcicki’s dedication to philanthropy even as she faced immense personal challenges. “Over the last two years, Susan continued to work tirelessly to make the world better through her philanthropic efforts, including supporting research for the disease that ultimately took her life,” Pichai wrote in a blog post.

A trailblazer in the tech industry, Wojcicki joined Google in 1999 as one of its earliest employees, well before the company acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion. Her journey with Google saw her rise through the ranks, serving as Senior Vice President for ad products before taking on the role of YouTube’s CEO in 2014.

After nine impactful years leading YouTube, Wojcicki stepped down from her role in 2023 to prioritize “family, health, and personal projects.” She was succeeded by Neal Mohan, a senior advertising and product executive at Google since 2008. Upon stepping down, Wojcicki planned to continue contributing to Alphabet, Google’s parent company, in an advisory capacity.

Reflecting on her career, Wojcicki once wrote, “Twenty-five years ago I made the decision to join a couple of Stanford graduate students who were building a new search engine. Their names were Larry and Sergey… It would be one of the best decisions of my life,” referring to Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

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Neal Mohan, her successor at YouTube, expressed his sorrow, stating, “Today, we at YouTube lost a teammate, mentor, and friend, Susan Wojcicki,” in a post on X.

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