{"id":779,"date":"2024-08-10T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T16:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/?p=779"},"modified":"2024-08-10T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T17:21:38","slug":"youtubes-former-chief-susan-wojcicki-dies-aged-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickmen.us\/news\/youtubes-former-chief-susan-wojcicki-dies-aged-56\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube&#8217;s former chief Susan Wojcicki dies aged 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Susan Wojcicki, the previous boss of YouTube and considered one of Google&#8217;s earliest workers, has died aged 56. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Google&#8217;s chief govt Sundar Pichai introduced that Ms Wojcicki had handed away after two years of dwelling with lung most cancers.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Mr Pichai, who can be the boss of Google&#8217;s father or mother firm Alphabet, stated on X\/Twitter he was &#8220;unbelievably saddened&#8221; and Ms Wojcicki  was &#8220;as core to the history of Google as anyone&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Once described because the &#8220;most important Googler you&#8217;ve never heard of&#8221;, Ms Wojcicki was current on the firm&#8217;s beginnings when, in 1998, she rented out <!-- -->her Menlo Park storage<!-- --> to the search engine agency&#8217;s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. <!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">She was later persuaded to go away her job at chip big Intel to affix Google, turning into the agency&#8217;s sixteenth worker. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Ms Wojcicki would go on to steer YouTube, the web video sharing firm owned by Google, for 9 years till 2023 when she stepped right down to focus &#8220;on my family, health and personal projects I&#8217;m passionate about&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Ms Wojcicki was considered one of comparatively few ladies to carry a senior position within the know-how business.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">She needed to encourage extra women to enter the sector, <!-- -->telling the Daily News&#8217;s Newshour in 2013 <!-- -->that the longer term was going to be &#8220;increasingly digitally influenced&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;But then I see there are very few women in the industry,&#8221; she stated. &#8220;Overall the tech industry has, on average, probably about 20% women and I also look at the pipeline of girls coming out of technical degrees and it is very small.&#8221; <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">While Ms Wojcicki rose to turn into the boss of YouTube, her tenure was not with out controversy. The platform confronted criticism over its dealing with of on-line disinformation, together with in the course of the Covid pandemic.  <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In 2022, quite a few fact-checking organisations wrote to her accusing YouTube of being &#8220;one of the major conduits of online disinformation and misinformation worldwide&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Ms Wojcicki stepped down a 12 months later to give attention to her private life and well being. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Announcing her dying &#8220;with profound sadness&#8221;, her husband Dennis Troper stated: &#8220;My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after two years of living with non-small-cell lung cancer.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c75nwnvvqr1o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Susan Wojcicki, the previous boss of YouTube and considered one of Google&#8217;s earliest workers, has died aged 56. 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