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Susan Wojcicki

Google's 16th employee, whose Menlo Park garage was Google's first office; CEO of YouTube from 2014 to 2023.

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Dates
1968 – 9 Aug 2024
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Over time
  1. Life 1968 – 9 Aug 2024
  2. CEO of YouTube 2014 – Feb 2023

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CEO of

  • YouTube 2014 – Feb 2023 Primary record 12

    She announced on 16 February 2023 that she was stepping back, and became an adviser to Google and Alphabet.

worked at

  • Google 1999 marketing manager; later Senior Vice President of Advertising & Commerce (2011–2014) Primary record 13

older sister of

  • Anne Wojcicki Primary record 45

    23andMe's filing names her as Anne Wojcicki's sibling in disclosing a January 2024 research agreement with the Troper Wojcicki Foundation, where she was a director and officer. Fortune reports that Anne Wojcicki and Sergey Brin met through her.

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Timeline 3 dates
  1. 1968 – 9 Aug 2024 Susan Wojcicki
  2. 1999 Susan Wojcicki worked at Google
  3. 2014 – Feb 2023 Susan Wojcicki CEO of YouTube
Proof 9 sources
  1. Salesforce, Inc. proxy statement (DEF 14A), 16 May 2024, Salesforce, 16 May 2024. Primary record
    Former Chief Executive Officer of YouTube, a digital video platform and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (previously Google Inc.) (2014 – 2023)
    Joined Google as its marketing manager in 1999, and after serving in various positions in marketing and product development, served as Google’s Senior Vice President of Advertising & Commerce (2011 – 2014)
  2. A personal update from Susan, YouTube, 16 Feb 2023. Primary record
    Today, after nearly 25 years here, I’ve decided to step back from my role as the head of YouTube and start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects I'm passionate about.
  3. Susan Wojcicki, former YouTube CEO, dies at 56, CNN, 10 Aug 2024. Scholarship & press
    She later became Google’s 16th employee and had worked at the company for nearly 25 years.
    had been involved with YouTube’s parent company Google from its earliest days, when its two founders worked out of her garage in California to build a search engine.
  4. 23andMe Holding Co. annual report amendment (Form 10-K/A), 25 July 2025, 23andMe, 25 Jul 2025. Primary record
    At the time, Susan Wojcicki was a director and officer of TWF, and a sibling of the Company’s former CEO and current member of the Board of Directors, Anne Wojcicki, and therefore the Company determined that TWF is a related party.
  5. Google’s Sergey Brin and 23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki legally divorced, Fortune, 24 Jun 2015. Scholarship & press
    The couple, who met through Wojcicki’s older sister, Susan (now heading up Google’s YouTube) were married in 2007
  6. Professor Stanley Wojcicki has died at age 86, Stanford University, 5 Jun 2023. Primary record
    They married in Berkeley in 1961, just after Esther got her BA degree and just prior to his PhD. In 1966, they moved to Stanford and in 1968 their first daughter, Susan, was born. Two other daughters followed: Janet in 1970 and Anne in 1973.
    He was very proud of his daughters and their chosen professions: Susan as CEO of YouTube, Janet as professor of pediatrics at UCSF Medical School and Anne as founder and CEO of 23andMe.
  7. She raised two CEOs and a doctor. Here’s her advice on how to help your child succeed, CNN, 10 May 2024. Scholarship & press
    Esther Wojcicki's daughter Susan is the former CEO of YouTube, her middle child, Janet, is a doctor and professor, and her youngest, Anne, is the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe.
  8. Stanley Wojcicki 1937–2023, CERN Courier, 23 Aug 2023. Scholarship & press
    He met his wife, Esther, while he was a PhD student at Berkeley. They married in 1961 and had three daughters of whom he was very proud, Susan (CEO of YouTube), Janet (professor of paediatrics at UCSF Medical School) and Anne (founder and CEO of 23andMe).
    They married in 1961 and had three daughters of whom he was very proud, Susan (CEO of YouTube), Janet (professor of paediatrics at UCSF Medical School) and Anne (founder and CEO of 23andMe).
  9. Our history in depth, Google. Primary record Archived copy
    Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage
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