Susan Wojcicki has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by pogue » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 5:37 AM UTC

sgammon wrote: post #10

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

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by nsoonhui » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 5:37 AM UTC

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

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

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by kylehotchkiss » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 5:38 AM UTC

langsoul-com wrote: post #6

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.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by Xenoamorphous » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 5:43 AM UTC

broknbottle wrote: post #5

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

Yes just read that in Wikipedia. Really sad.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by saagarjha » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 5:45 AM UTC

fells wrote: post #19

aaomidi wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by slinky6 » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 5:46 AM UTC

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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by rottencupcakes » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 5:55 AM UTC

broknbottle wrote: post #5

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.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by dredmorbius » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 6:01 AM UTC

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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by momoschili » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 6:03 AM UTC

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.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by xbmcuser » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 6:10 AM UTC

CSMastermind wrote: post #11

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…

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.