Susan Wojcicki is dead: Former YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive dies at age 56

SAN FRANCISCO — Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO and longtime Google executive, has died, her husband said. She was 56.

“My beloved wife of 26 years and mother of our five children passed away today after 2 years of living with non-small cell lung cancer,” Dennis Troper said in a social media post late Friday evening.

“Susan was not only my best friend and life partner, but also a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a close friend to many people,” said the Troper.

No other details about her death were released.

Wojcicki, who played a key role in the founding of Google, resigned as YouTube CEO in 2023 after nine years at the helm of the video-sharing service that transformed entertainment, culture and politics.

Shortly after Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin turned their search engine into a business in 1998, Wojcicki rented a garage in her Menlo Park, California, home for $1,700 a month.

Marco Troper, the 19-year-old son of Wojcicki and Troper, died in February on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he was living as a freshman.