Susan Wojcicki

Susan Wojcicki (5 July 1968 to 9 August 2024) was an American business executive who served as chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 until she resigned in February 2023. Her connection to Google began in 1998, when co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up their first office in her garage in Menlo Park, California. She joined Google in 1999 as its first marketing manager and went on to lead its online advertising business and its original video service, later rising to senior vice president of Advertising and Commerce. After watching YouTube outcompete Google Video, she recommended that Google buy it, and the 1.65 billion dollar acquisition was approved in 2006. As YouTube's chief executive she oversaw the launch of YouTube Premium, YouTube TV and YouTube Shorts, and her tenure included public debate over how the platform enforced its content policies. She studied history and literature at Harvard University, then earned a master's degree in economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MBA at UCLA.