Susan Wojcicki, the former Chief Executive Officer of YouTube and a long-serving Google executive, has passed away at the age of 56, according to her husband.
“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,” said Dennis Troper in a social media post late Friday.
“Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many,” Troper added.
No other immediate details about the circumstances of her death were provided.
Wojcicki played a pivotal role in Google’s early development and stepped down as YouTube’s CEO in 2023 after leading the video platform for nine years, a period in which it transformed 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 the garage of her Menlo Park, California home to them for $1,700 per month.
Tragically, Wojcicki and Troper’s 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, passed away in February while attending the UC Berkeley campus as a freshman student.