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Susan Wojcicki, Longtime YouTube CEO and Google Executive, Dies at 56


Susan Wojcicki, the longtime CEO of YouTube and a Google pioneer, has died at the age of 56.

Her collaboration with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin began shortly after they incorporated their search engine into a business in 1998. Page and Brin — both 25 at the time — continued to refine their search engine in Wojcicki’s garage for five months before moving Google into a more formal office and later persuaded their former landlord to come work for their company. “She taught me the business and helped me navigate a growing, fairly chaotic organization at the beginning of my career in tech,” Sandberg wrote.

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