09-08-2024
The
former head of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, died yesterday owing to her
ongoing lung illness. Wojcicki is left behind by her husband, Dennis
Troper, and their four living children.
She became head of YouTube in 2014, where she ran it up until early
last year, when she stepped down and put Neal Mohan in her stead so
that she could deal with her health hardships and set aside more time
with her kin.
Amid her oversight of YouTube, the film and streaming webstead, she started
sundry new things, like YouTube Red and YouTube Shorts, which were well
liked. However, Wojcicki was called out by some folks for not handling
the spread of mislore on YouTube well. In answer, she is known for having
tightened the laws on YouTube to put an end to it.
Wojcicki had been with Google almost since the beginning, when she
hired out her wainshed for Sergey Brin and Larry Page to work in. The
head of Google, Sundar Pichai, said on X that he was greatly
saddened by her death and that Wojcicki was at the heart of Google's
yorelore.