SAN FRANCISCO, California — Tech pioneer and former YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki, who played an instrumental role in the rise of Google, has died at the age of 56 after battling lung cancer, her husband announced Friday (Saturday in Manila).
SAN FRANCISCO, California — Tech pioneer and former YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki, who played an instrumental role in the rise of Google, has died at the age of 56 after battling lung cancer, her husband announced Friday .Wojcicki, one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, spent nearly two decades helping transform Google from the search engine startup that was launched in her garage to a global tech behemoth.
Wojcicki was working at Intel when her friends Sergey Brin and Larry Page set up shop in the garage of her Menlo Park, California, home in 1998. A year later, she joined the company as its 16th employee and first marketing manager.At Google, she played a role in creating image search and worked on the acquisitions of YouTube and ad platform DoubleClick.
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