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FYI Sundar Pichai posted a tribute: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588

> Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend @SusanWojcicki after two years of living with cancer. She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her. She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous impact on the world and I’m one of countless Googlers who is better for knowing her. We will miss her dearly. Our thoughts with her family. RIP Susan.

I'll say personally it's tragic to see someone like this pass in their 50s. Given Susan's impact on both Google as a whole and more specifically YouTube it's no understatement to say that she changed the world profoundly.

I don't think that YouTube, in its current form, or the creator economy that it produced, would exist in anywhere near the same shape had Google not acquired and then spent years funding the company at a financial loss.

She had a huge impact on YouTube and with it the world as I personally feel YouTube has become one of the largest resource of information on how to do almost anything for the newer generations as well as for people that had no access because they could not read. And as ai translation get better the impact on billions of people will be huge.

Her sister, Anne, is the ex spouse of Google founder Brin, and 23andme cofounder.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki

I can’t get the link to load, but here’s Pichai’s take:

> Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend @SusanWojcicki after two years of living with cancer. She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her. She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous impact on the world and I’m one of countless Googlers who is better for knowing her. We will miss her dearly. Our thoughts with her family. RIP Susan.

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588?s=46

I always thought it was cool that Google started in her garage in Menlo Park. Too young to be gone :-(

whoa, I believe her son also passed away like ~5 months ago.

An accidental drug overdose on campus at UC Berkeley.

One wonders if his mom having terminal cancer was a factor in his overdoing it.

And I cannot imagine how news like that would hit a mother with cancer, when the only thing left for her is legacy.

Truly tragic.

That's a nice way of looking at it. Or, while his mom was struggling with cancer, this kid was partying it up and doing drugs. You're worth a billion dollars... Your mom is sick and probably will soon die. But you can't defer and spend some time with her because the "college experience" awaits.

Don't be so quick to judge. Your mother dying of cancer at such a young age is hard. Everyone deals with it their own way.

Yes just read that in Wikipedia. Really sad.

Yeah super sad recent events in the family. Reminds me that no matter how much money you have life can still hit us hard.

> no matter how much money you have life can still hit us hard

Us? Poor rich people :(

Rest in peace. A true SV legend.

Interesting how it's a threads link, and how it loads infinitely faster than Twitter

Regardless of how people feel about it, Meta/FB is sure putting a lot of resources into it and it seems like it's growing even on people who didn't do a text-first social network in the past.

They both seem to load in about the same amount of time for me.

Edit: Elon haters downvoting as usual, but my post wasn't a lie.

Twitter loads in a reasonable time for me, yet Facebook loads slow.

what a tragedy... I can't think of many sites with the impact that YouTube has had, especially during her tenure as the lead.

lung cancer as well, I don't think she was a smoker so what a bad stroke of luck.

Tragic loss to the world

One thing I've heard is that before age 40, people die of trauma or suicide. After age 40, people, including the healthy, just starting dying of everything.

Wow. Way too soon :(

RIP she will be missed.

Rumble and X posts are gloating that she blocked/delisted anti covid vaccine videos on YouTube, and then gets cancer, something the videos tried to warn people of related to vaccines.

I'm not sure what to say about that anymore.

just say that there are a lot of idiots in the world

On both sides probably. One side exaggerates statistics to make their point, and the other wishfully accepts unproven statements to feel better.

I've taken basically all vaccines ever recommended while growing up and traveling, but to say that the covid vaccine was "safe and effective" a year after coming out was a crazy stretch. Why couldn't they just say "we didn't have time to do long term studies, but we think it's fine and worth the risks"? But to say it's safe was a lie IMO and lost the vaccine side a lot of credibility.

R.I.P. - too soon.

Original post on fb: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/qe2ZMcs9Bz4K1SPt/

Who is this guy on Threads? Sundar's tweet should be the canonical source:

https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588

Casey Newton, former editor @ The Verge & who currently runs platformer.news, a pretty significant tech news site in his own right. I'm not sure why he's going by 'crumbler' these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Newton

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No? The person on Threads does not appear to be her husband. They're merely posting a screenshot of her husband's Facebook post.

The link now points at Facebook fwiw

Huh I swear when I was looking at this post it was the Facebook thread

Not the depicted post, the dude on Threads. The link has been changed now.