RIP: Prominent Figure Dies of Cancer at 56
Former YouTube Chief Executive Officer, Susan Wojcicki, has died at the age of 56 after battling lung cancer, her husband announced.
Tech pioneer, who played an instrumental role in the rise of Google, is one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley.
Wojcicki spent nearly two decades helping transform Google from the search engine startup that was launched in her garage to a global tech behemoth.
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At YouTube, which Google acquired in 2006, Wojcicki helmed operations for nearly a decade, before stepping down last year to focus on her family, health and personal projects.
Her husband, Dennis Troper, wrote on Facebook that she had been living with lung cancer for the last two years. She and Troper had five children.
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