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Tragedy has again struck a famous Silicon Valley family. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away, according to social media posts by her husband, Dennis Troper, and by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Wrote Troper on Facebook earlier Friday night, “It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki passing.

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 57 points 1 month ago

I have no love for the CEO class but no one deserves to go that young.

Fuck Cancer.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh fuck.

I worked for Susan, I stan very few tech people but she was fucking great.

Her kids are at least in their teens by now, but wow that sucks.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

One of her kids also died last yesr. Sad asf

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

...left us today after 2 years of living with non-small cell lung cancer.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

So thats why she stepped down huh

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Ah man. Not to say she was great, but it felt like she tried to limit enshitification in hindsight. It could have been a lot worse

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's very young for a rich person.

[–] colderr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Very young for anyone.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I hate hearing the term “passed away” used for someone who died decades before their time.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well cancer sucks in general so my sympathy is to her family I guess? Otherwise I don't give a shit. YouTube sucks.