Media personality and tech executive Susan Wojcicki has done tremendously well in the media industry as she is known to be among the founding members of one of the biggest search engines in the world – Google. She was the brain behind Google’s acquisition of YouTube and currently, she is serving as its CEO.
It is also important to note that her contribution to the media industry has not gone unnoticed as Susan has accumulated a series of accolades over the years which include being ranked 6th among the most prominent women according to Forbes in 2017 and has been listed as the 10th most influential woman by Fortune in 2018.
Susan Wojcicki Biography
Susan Wojcicki is a Polish-American who was born on the 5th of July 1968, in California, USA. She has the full name Susan Diane Wojcicki and was raised by her parents. Her mother Esther Wojcicki was a language teacher, journalist, and one-time vice president of the Creative Commons advisory council. On the other hand, her father Stanley Wojcicki was a professor who taught Physics at Stanford University in California, USA.
Susan has two amazing siblings – Jack Wojcicki, a doctorate degree holder in Anthropologist & Epidemiologist, and her sister Anne Wojcicki is a Business Executive who runs her own genomics company in California called 23andMe.
Education
A probe into Susan Wojcicki’s educational background shows that she studied at Gunn High School, located in Pato Alto and it was during her days there that she developed her writing skills – writing for the newspaper owned by the school. Upon graduation from high school, Susan went to further her education at Harvard University where she graduated with a degree in History and Literary Studies in 1990. Later on, she obtained dual master’s degrees – one in Economics from the University of California and another in Business Administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Susan Wojcicki Career
It is known that the tech executive kicked off her career when she started working for the R.B. Webber & Company and Bain & Company as the management consultant, as well as being the marketing personnel for Intel Corporation in California. It was in 1998 – the same year Google was founded, that its pioneers –Larry Page and Sergey Brin met with Susan Wojcicki and requested to hire her garage that was located in Menlo Park as their office. Subsequently, Susan Wojcicki joined the up-rising Google team and became the very first person to head the marketing department of Google.
She continued to work with the team and was made the senior vice president in the department of Advertising and Commerce. More so, Susan Wojcicki pioneered the purchase of the video-sharing platform YouTube – created by tech wizards Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, as it was becoming a leading competitor in the market. Furthermore, she initiated the purchase deal for DoubleClick which was ranked Google’s most expensive acquisition as it was valued at $3.1 billion as of 2007.
Family Life
Moving to her family life, we know that the tech executive has dual citizenship as she was born in the United States but she originally hails from Poland and her grandfather was a political figure during the 1940s in Poland.
Currently, Susan Wojcicki has been married to Dennis Troper since 1998 and the marriage is blessed with five children. On her own side, Susan is known to be an advocate of women being able to shoulder the responsibility of nurturing their families and having a thriving career life. She even wrote a piece in 2014 which was published in the Wall Street Journal about the importance of paying women while they were on maternity leave. The tech executive has done a great job in that aspect of her life as she is not just the Chief Executive Officer of one of the largest video sharing platforms online but she is also a wife and the mother of five adorable children.
Salary & Net Worth
The YouTube CEO who is known to have had a long-standing career with the popular search engine Google has garnered a reasonable amount of wealth thus far in her career. As of now, no information is available on Susan’s salary but her net worth has been estimated to be around $500 million and with prospects of increasing as Susan Wojcicki is actively pursuing her career.
