Susan Wojcicki was CEO of Alphabet subsidiary YouTube from 2014 until early 2023. She now serves in an advisory role to Google and Google-parent Alphabet.
In 1998, Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page rented Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California and developed Google's search engine there.
She was hired in 1999 as Google employee number 16, and worked on everything from AdSense and Google Analytics to Google Books and Google Images.
In 2006, she advocated for the $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, which has grown to 2.5 billion monthly viewers.
Before Google, Wojcicki worked in the marketing department at Intel and as a management consultant at Bain & Company.
Master of Business Administration, Anderson School of Management; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Harvard University; Master of Science, University of California, Santa Cruz
Did you know
Wojcicki's first business was selling "spice ropes" door-to-door at age 11. A humanities major in college, she took her first computer science class as a senior.
Susan Wojcicki's sister Anne Wojcicki, who cofounded DNA testing firm 23AndMe, was married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin for 8 years, until mid 2015.
Wojcicki sits on the board of Salesforce.
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