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Susan Wojcicki, Former YouTube CEO, Dead at 56

Susan Wojcicki's husband, Dennis Troper, shared Friday night that she died following a two-year battle with cancer.

Wojcicki's husband, Google executive Dennis Troper, shared Friday on Facebook that the tech trailblazer died following a two-year battle with non small cell lung cancer. She rented it to Stanford University students Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who set up shop and launched the search engine that would ultimately become Google. Wojcicki was four months pregnant with her first child when she left her stable job at Intel Corp. to join the start-up Google in 1999, becoming the company's 16th employee.

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