November 13, 2024

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Former YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki has died of cancer at the age of 56

Former YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki has died of cancer at the age of 56

Susan Wojcicki, the technology pioneer and former YouTube boss who played a key role in the growth of Google, has died at the age of 56 after a battle with lung cancer, her husband announced on Friday.

Susan Wojcicki, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent women, spent nearly two decades building the Internet search engine Google started in her garage into a global technology giant.

Ms Wojcicki operated YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006, for nearly a decade before stepping back last year to focus on personal and family projects as well as her health.

Her husband, Dennis Troper, wrote on Facebook that she had been suffering from lung cancer for two years.

My beloved wife of 26 years and mother of our five children left us todayHe wrote.

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