Net Worth: | $500 Million |
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Date of Birth: | July 5, 1968 (56 years old) |
Gender: | Female |
Profession: | Businessperson |
Nationality: | United States of America |
What is Susan Wojcicki’s Net Worth?
Susan Wojcicki is an American business executive who serves as the CEO of YouTube. Prior to holding this position, she contributed significantly to the creation of Google which led to her being appointed as Google’s inaugural marketing manager in 1999. Susan Wojcicki has a net worth of $500 million.
Susan had a house in Menlo Park, California, in 1998. She made the decision to rent out her garage to two Stanford Ph.D. students in September 1998 in order to make extra money. These students, named Sergey Brin and Larry Page required the room to run their recently founded web business (Google).
Early Life
Susan Wojcicki was born on 5 July 1968 in Santa Clara County, California. At the time of her birth, her father named Stanley worked as a professor at Standford university, while her mother named Esther was a businesswoman. Susan Wojcicki grew up alongside her sisters named Janet and Anne.
Education
She was a student at Palo Alto’s Gunn High School. Wojcicki attended Harvard University, where she studied literature and history. She enrolled in the University of California, Santa Cruz’s graduate economics department after receiving high honors in 1990, and in 1993 she received her MS. Later, in 1998, Susan Wojcicki earned an MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Career
Susan Wojcicki served as a marketer for Intel Corporation in Santa Clara in the late 1990s, and she also worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company and R.B. Webber & Company.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page set up an office in Susan Wojcicki’s Menlo Park garage when the technology company Google was first founded in September 1998. After that, she joined the company and contributed to its first viral advertising campaigns and Google Doodles.
Later, in 2003, Wojcicki participated in the development of one of Google’s most well-known advertising programs, AdSense. She received the Google Founders’ Award for her contributions and was the first product manager for AdSense.
Susan Wojcicki subsequently rose up the ranks to become Google’s senior vice president of advertising and commerce, in charge of programs including AdWords, DoubleClick, and Google Analytics.
She felt that Google needed to buy the company after seeing the success of YouTube, a competing video platform that was at the time still a fledgling startup.
Susan Wojcicki then supervised the 2006 acquisition of YouTube for $1.65 billion. The following year, she supervised the $3.1 billion acquisition of the advertising firm DoubleClick.
YouTube CEO
In February 2014, Susan Wojcicki was appointed CEO of YouTube. During her stint there, the business declared that it now had two billion monthly logged-in users.
The fact that viewers watched more than a billion hours of entertainment every day was also revealed. Additionally, after Susan Wojcicki assumed the position of CEO, YouTube’s female staff share increased from 24% to about 30%. YouTube’s policy on eliminating videos that promote hate speech and violence was enhanced during her tenure.
Wojcicki also continues to place a high premium on educational content; in July 2018, she announced the launch of the YouTube Learning program, which makes grants available to support creator content that focuses on education.
Personal Life
Susan Wojcicki got married to Dennis Troper in August 1998. Their union is blessed with five children. Anne Wojcicki, Susan’s sister, is the co-founder and CEO of the popular genetics firm named ”23andMe.”
Accolades
Susan Wojcicki has won numerous awards over the years in recognition of her many accomplishments. On Adweek’s list of the Top 50 Execs in 2013, she was ranked No. 1.
She was listed among the 100 Most Influential People in Time magazine two years later. Wojcicki was ranked sixth on Forbes magazine’s list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World after she was appointed CEO of YouTube.
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