Susan Wojcicki is an American business executive, served as the chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 until 2023. With a net worth estimated at $765 million in 2022, Wojcicki boasts over two decades of experience in the technology sector.
Bio/Wiki
Age-55 years
Full name-Susan Diane Wojcicki
Height-1.65m
Weight-55 kg
Born-5 July 1968
Birthplace-Santa Clara County, California, United States
Spouse-Dennis Troper (m. 1998)
Profession-Former CEO of YouTube
Nationality-American, Polish
Family
Her parents are Esther Wojcicki, an American journalist, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish physics professor at Stanford University. Susan Wojcicki has two sisters: Janet, a doctor of anthropology and epidemiology, and Anne, an entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe.
Husband
She is married to Dennis Troper, who is Google’s director of product management. The couple tied the knot on August 23, 1998.
Children
They have five children. Unfortunately, on February 13, 2024, Wojcicki’s son Marco passed away from a suspected drug overdose while he was a student at the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Before joining Google as its first marketing manager in 1999, Wojcicki had marketing roles at Intel Corporation and worked as a management consultant. In September 1998, Google’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin began working from Wojcicki’s garage, where she contributed to early viral marketing efforts, logo creation, and the launch of Google Doodles and Google Image Search. She later became the first product manager of AdSense and was promoted to senior vice president of Advertising & Commerce, overseeing products like AdWords and Google Analytics. Wojcicki also played a key role in Google’s acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006.
In February 2014, Wojcicki became CEO of YouTube. She was recognized as a key figure in advertising, listed among Time’s 100 most influential people in 2015, and dubbed “the most powerful woman on the Internet.” She joined the board of Salesforce in December 2014 and is involved in organizations like Room to Read and UCLA Anderson School of Management. Under her leadership, YouTube reached 2 billion monthly logged-in users and users watched one billion hours daily by 2021, with over $30 billion paid to creators.
Wojcicki focused on expanding YouTube’s offerings for family, gaming, and music content, introducing various monetization options and subscription services. However, she faced scrutiny over YouTube’s handling of hate speech and violent extremism. Wojcicki emphasized educational content and raised concerns about the European Union’s Copyright Directive’s impact on content sharing. On February 16, 2023, Wojcicki announced her resignation from YouTube to prioritize family, health, and personal projects, while maintaining an advisory role across Google and Alphabet.
Net Worth
Susan Wojcicki’s estimated net worth stood at $780 million.
