Susan Wojcicki, the former chief executive of YouTube and longtime Google executive, has died, her husband said. She was 56.
“My beloved wife of 26 years and mother of our five children left us today after living with non-small cell lung cancer for two years,” Dennis Troper said in a social media post late Friday.
“Susan was not only my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother and a dear friend to many,” Troper said.
No other details about her death were immediately released.
Wojcicki, who played a key role in Google’s creation, stepped down as YouTube’s CEO in 2023 after spending nine years running the video-sharing service that reshaped entertainment, culture and politics.
Shortly after Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their search engine into a company in 1998, Wojcicki rented the garage in her Menlo Park, Calif., home to them 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.