Beloved Former YouTube CEO and Google Veteran Susan Wojcicki Passes Away at 56

Wojcicki stepped down as YouTube’s CEO in 2023 after spending nine years running the video site that reshaped entertainment, culture, and politics.

WASHINGTON — Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of YouTube and longtime Google executive, has passed away at the age of 56. Her husband, Dennis Troper, announced the news late Friday.

Troper shared through social media, “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.”

He added, “Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many.” No further details about her death are available at this time.

Susan Wojcicki was instrumental in Google’s creation. Shortly after Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998, Wojcicki rented her Menlo Park, California, garage to the co-founders for $1,700 a month.

Earlier this year, Wojcicki and Troper’s 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, tragically passed away in February at UC Berkeley, where he was a freshman student.