Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki dies at 56

Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube and longtime director of Google, has died, her husband said. She was 56.

“My beloved wife of 26 years and mother of our five children left us today after two years of living with non-small cell lung cancer,” Dennis Troper said in a social media post late Friday.

“Susan was not only my best friend and partner in life, but also a brilliant mind, a loving mother and a dear friend to many,” Troper said.

No other details about her death were immediately provided.

Wojcicki, who played a key role in the founding of Google, got off as CEO of YouTube in 2023, after nine years leading the video-sharing service that reshaped entertainment, culture and politics.

Shortly after Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin integrated their search engine into a company in 1998, Wojcicki rented the garage of her Menlo Park, California, home for $1,700 a month.

Wojcicki and Troper’s 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, died in February on the UC Berkeley campus where he lived as a freshman.