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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by k8sToGo on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:36PM (#34822042)
> Wojcicki, who joined Alphabet nearly 25 years ago…

I’m not a journalist, but that doesn’t sound right.

Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by ejvincent on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:39PM (#34822106)
Read the article:

  Wojcicki has been involved with Google practically since the beginning. The company's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, set up office in her parents' garage soon after they incorporated Google in 1998. Wojcicki became Google's first marketing manager the following year and played a role in the earliest Google Doodles. In 2006, she encouraged Google to buy YouTube, which launched a year earlier.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by michaelt on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:41PM (#34822169)
> In September 1998, the same month that Google was incorporated, its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up office in Wojcicki's parents' garage in Menlo Park, California. [1]

2023-1998=25

Sounds right to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki#Career

Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by yurylifshits on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:39PM (#34822125)
Google started as a research project in 1995 and incorporated in 1998. Susan was an employee number 16. 25 years sounds about right.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by joewhatkins on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:39PM (#34822124)
It’s accurate. Google was started out of her parent’s garage, and she became involved around then.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by nickelpro on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:39PM (#34822105)
?

Google's first office was in her parents' garage

Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by jonny_eh on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:54PM (#34822448)
No, her garage.

> With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki

https://about.google/intl/en_us/our-story/

Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by thetinguy on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:38PM (#34822088)
>Google was founded on September 4, 1998

Maybe she was an early employee?

Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by flebron on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:41PM (#34822162)
I think k8sToGo's point is that she never "joined Alphabet", Alphabet did not exist when she joined Larry and Sergey. She joined concurrent with Google's founding as a company, she probably joined when the search engine was named Backrub. Alphabet would be created decades later.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by k8sToGo on Thursday February 16, 2023 @01:29PM (#34823231)
Exactly. But I guess people don’t care about accuracy anymore.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by mikece on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:39PM (#34822111)
Google is that old, Alphabet isn't.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by Arrath on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:42PM (#34822182)
Splitting hairs. "Joined the entity that would later become <a part of> Alphabet", big deal.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by AlexandrB on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:43PM (#34822206)
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by tinyhouse on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:41PM (#34822164)
If I'm not mistaken she was Sergei's girl friend back then or maybe it was her sister. Not sure but I remember his first wife had this last name.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by ggambetta on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:45PM (#34822250)
Anne, sister, founded 23andme.
Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down by layer8 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:47PM (#34822309)
Yes, Alphabet was created less than 8 years ago. She probably joined Google.