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Susan Wojcicki

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Key facts

Full name Susan Diane Wojcicki[2]
Born July 5, 1968, Santa Clara, California[1]
Died August 9, 2024[1]
Role CEO of YouTube, 2014–2023[1]
Education Harvard University; University of California, Santa Cruz; UCLA Anderson School of Management[3]

Susan Wojcicki was an American tech executive who served as CEO of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. She was born on July 5, 1968, in Santa Clara, California, and died on August 9, 2024, of lung cancer.

Context

Susan Wojcicki was an American tech industry executive best known as CEO of YouTube from 2014 to 2023. She was born in Santa Clara, California, on July 5, 1968, and died on August 9, 2024, of lung cancer [1]. She joined Google in 1999 as its first marketing manager [3] and helped guide the development of Google Images and Google Books [3]. She was instrumental in Google's 2006 acquisition of YouTube [3] and oversaw YouTube's content, business operations, engineering, and product development [3]. She ran YouTube until 2023 [1].

Documented claims

  • Wojcicki joined Google in 1999 as its first marketing manager. [3]
  • She was instrumental in Google's 2006 acquisition of YouTube. [3]
  • She was named to Time 100 in 2015. [3]

Questions and answers

What happened to Susan Wojcicki?

She died of lung cancer on August 9, 2024 [1].

Was Susan Wojcicki a smoker?

The sources do not mention whether she smoked.

Why is Susan no longer CEO of YouTube?

She stepped down as CEO in 2023 after nearly a decade in the role [1].

Sources

  1. Susan Wojcicki | Biography, YouTube, Death, & Facts — britannica.com (retrieved August 3, 2026)
  2. Susan Wojcicki - CHM - Computer History Museum — computerhistory.org (retrieved August 3, 2026)
  3. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: Life, Career, Net Worth, Death — businessinsider.com (retrieved August 3, 2026)

Sources last checked August 3, 2026. · More in People