Tom Li is a Bay Area News Group regional news reporting intern for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Raised in Pleasanton, Tom is currently a student at Brown University studying economics and international and public affairs.
Susan Wojcicki, YouTube CEO, addresses the crowd at the annual Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, Calif., on Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, a Silicon Valley native and tech pioneer, has died after a two-year struggle with cancer, her family reported. She was 56.
“My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non small cell lung cancer.” wrote her husband, Dennis Troper, in aFriday night. “Susan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many. Her impact on our family and the world was immeasurable.
“We are heartbroken, but grateful for the time we had with her,” Troper added. “Please keep our family in your thoughts as we navigate this difficult time.”out her Menlo Park garage to co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, then Stanford students living in the university’s dorms who needed a space to create a new search engine that would later become Google. Wojcicki soon joined the company as its 16th employee —Friday night. “It’s hard to imagine the world without her.
Ron Conway, a prominent Silicon Valley early-stage investor, said Wojcicki was “one of the kindest, thoughtful human beings in addition to being a great Mom,” in a Saturday morningAn early investor in Google, Conway described Wojcicki as “one of the biggest contributors to the tech community.”the initial development of products like Google Images and Google Books.
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