From Google’s 16th Employee to YouTube CEO: Susan Wojcicki’s Family Shares Her Story

Susan Wojcicki helped build Google and led YouTube for nearly a decade. In this episode, I sit down with her husband, Dennis Troper; her mother, Esther Wojcicki; and her sisters, Anne and Janet Wojcicki, to hear the stories that show who Susan was beyond her work.

They talk about how Susan made time for her five children, what happened when she was diagnosed with lung cancer despite having no smoking history, and why her family is working to change how the disease is understood. We discuss the need for earlier detection, the stigma that keeps people from seeking care, and the Lung Cancer Genetics Study Susan helped inspire.

Learn more about the Susan Wojcicki Foundation and its work on early detection and prevention of lung cancer: https://susanwfoundation.org/

Resources:

Susan Wojcicki Foundation: https://susanwfoundation.org/

About lung cancer: https://susanwfoundation.org/about-lung-cancer

Lung Cancer Genetics Study and eligibility: https://www.23andme.com/lung-cancer/

How Susan helped inspire the study: https://susanwfoundation.org/post/susan-wojcicki-lung-cancer-genetics-study

Thank you to the Susan Wojcicki Foundation and Susan’s family for sharing their archival photos and footage. Archival family materials courtesy of the Susan Wojcicki Foundation.

The opening excerpt of Susan speaking is courtesy of Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California (2017).

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbEeamhK2Kk. Thank you to the Commonwealth Club for sharing this material.

Commonwealth Club channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC78euTMh9KcVbql3UeWOqBw

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