Susan Wojcicki

Susan D. Wojcicki (/woʊˈdʒɪtski/ woh-JIT-skee; born July 5, 1968) is an American businesswoman and CEO of YouTube.^[10][11] Wojcicki is the daughter of Esther Wojcicki, an educator, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish American physics professor at Stanford University. Wojcicki studied history and literature at Harvard University and graduated with honors in 1990. She also received her master's in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1993 and a Master's in Business Administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 1998.^[12][13]

In September 1998, the same month that Google was incorporated, its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up office in Susan's garage in Menlo Park.^[14][15] Wojcicki, called "the most important person in advertising"^[16] and "the most important Googler you've never heard of", was 16th on Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2011.^[17] In 2012 she was 25th on this list^[18] and in 2013 she was 30th.^{[19][citation needed]} She was also named on Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business list in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 at #43,^[20] #28,^[21] #18^[22] and #19,^[23] respectively. Wojcicki was named #1 on the Adweek 50 list in 2013.^[24] She was named #36 on Vanity Fair's New Establishment list in 2013^[25] and #39 in 2012.^[26]

Personal life

Wojcicki is married to Google executive Dennis Troper and they have four children.

She is the sister of Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe.

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