Susan Wojcicki dies
Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2024 10:18 pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/busi ... -dead.html
https://archive.ph/OYRzl
Who cares? You better care. She was one of the most prominent figures in the history of Google, Wikipedia's favorite search engine and a major supporter of the WMF. She ran YouTube for several years, making her easily one of the most important persons in the history of streaming video.
The Wojcickis are drilled deeply into the history of Google/Alphabet. Google's first servers were set up in Susan's garage in 1998. Her husband still works at Google. Her sister Anne was married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin (and divorced his ass after he was caught porking a Google employee on the side). Their mother Esther, a retired schoolteacher with few qualifications to advise a tech-focused firm, was hired by Creative Commons, a nonprofit with very close ties to Google, as a member of their board of directors. She soon became the Chair of the board, albeit not for very long. (A fact not mentioned in her Wikipedia article.) Esther remains on the "Advisory Board" of Creative Commons today.....right next to Jimbo Wales.
Nepotism much? Logrolling much?
And now for my question: why did a middle-aged woman who worked in an office and (apparently) didn't smoke die of lung cancer? I'm not the only one asking.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2487069/su ... ceos-death
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ ... r-AA1ozxje
https://archive.ph/OYRzl
Who cares? You better care. She was one of the most prominent figures in the history of Google, Wikipedia's favorite search engine and a major supporter of the WMF. She ran YouTube for several years, making her easily one of the most important persons in the history of streaming video.
The Wojcickis are drilled deeply into the history of Google/Alphabet. Google's first servers were set up in Susan's garage in 1998. Her husband still works at Google. Her sister Anne was married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin (and divorced his ass after he was caught porking a Google employee on the side). Their mother Esther, a retired schoolteacher with few qualifications to advise a tech-focused firm, was hired by Creative Commons, a nonprofit with very close ties to Google, as a member of their board of directors. She soon became the Chair of the board, albeit not for very long. (A fact not mentioned in her Wikipedia article.) Esther remains on the "Advisory Board" of Creative Commons today.....right next to Jimbo Wales.
Nepotism much? Logrolling much?
And now for my question: why did a middle-aged woman who worked in an office and (apparently) didn't smoke die of lung cancer? I'm not the only one asking.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2487069/su ... ceos-death
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/ ... r-AA1ozxje