Susan Wojcicki

Susan Wojcicki is one of those rare figures whose influence vastly outweighed her public profile. The image of her renting out her Menlo Park garage to two Stanford grads, only to become Google's sixteenth employee and eventually run YouTube, reads like Silicon Valley folklore made real. What strikes me most is how she steered the world's largest video platform through a decade of impossible moderation debates without ever chasing the spotlight herself. Her death in 2024 felt like the closing of a foundational chapter in the modern internet. I respect builders who shape culture quietly, and few shaped ours more than she did.

Name (English)

Susan Wojcicki

Name (Japanese)

スーザン・ウォシッキー

Reading

すーざん・うぉしっきー

Born

July 5, 1968 – August 9, 2024

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Origin

Santa Clara, California, United States

Occupation

businessperson / manager / tech VIP

High school

Gunn High School

University

University of California, Santa Cruz

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/susanwojcicki/
• Xhttps://x.com/SusanWojcicki
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Wojcicki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A9%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55183

Tags

• California
• businessperson
• manager
• tech VIP

Last updated

2026-06-16

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.