Susan Wojcicki (Google / YouTube exec) has died at 56.

[AndYesTheWeeDonkeys]

Awful shame. I only knew of her through the positions she held when it was so rare for women to be at the forefront of tech enterprises.

https://www.ft.com/content/c82b7fc6-c6de-40e2-ad20-41d78557bb21

(Sorry - can’t get my FT gift sharing to work. The news will be available elsewhere, anyway)

I saw this. And found it unspeakably tragic that she passed only 8 months after her son passed of a drug overdose.

Yes, that was very shocking.

More about her here:

The life of Susan Wojcicki: the woman who helped build Google

https://www.thetimes.com/article/6a5bee5b-01b5-4d47-b782-58b47be41b00?shareToken=c73e382a2ce40722763117babe5b7542

Her poor husband, though …

Sorry, that’s just an observation on their recent family history. Obviously she was quite staggeringly brilliant and successful and deserves to be celebrated everywhere.