{"id":818798,"date":"2025-01-10T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/youtube-just-shared-the-final-message-from-its-former-ceo-susan-wojcicki-who-died-from-lung-cancer-this-summer-read-her-most-important-lesson\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:14:00","slug":"youtube-just-shared-the-final-message-from-its-former-ceo-susan-wojcicki-who-died-from-lung-cancer-this-summer-read-her-most-important-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/youtube-just-shared-the-final-message-from-its-former-ceo-susan-wojcicki-who-died-from-lung-cancer-this-summer-read-her-most-important-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Just Shared the Final Message From Its Former CEO Susan Wojcicki Who Died From Lung Cancer This Summer. Read Her &#8216;Most Important Lesson.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former YouTube CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.youtube\/inside-youtube\/susan-wojcicki\/\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">Susan Wojcicki<\/a> died in August from lung cancer at age 56. She was Google&#8217;s 16th employee and reportedly rented out her garage to Google founders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/who-is-google-co-founder-sergey-brin\/432244\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">Sergey Brin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/who-is-larry-page-google-cofounder-billionaire-ex-ceo\/474214\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">Larry Page<\/a> in the late 1990s when they were forming the company.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/inside-youtube\/from-susan\/\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">shared a letter<\/a> they titled, &#8220;From Susan,&#8221; that Wojcicki wrote before she died. It was to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.youtube\/inside-youtube\/from-susan\/\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">blog post<\/a> she created for Lung Cancer Awareness Month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Susan wrote a post in the final weeks of her life that she planned to publish this fall,&#8221; Neal Mohan, the current CEO of YouTube, writes of Wojcicki.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/susan-wojcicki-tech-pioneer-former-youtube-ceo-dies-at-56\/478362\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">Silicon Valley Pioneer and Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies at 56 \u2014 Here&#8217;s How She Transformed the Tech Industry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wojcicki fought lung cancer for two years and spent the time educating people on the disease and advocating for research funding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through Susan, I learned that lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in women,&#8221; Mohan said. &#8220;She wanted to change those odds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/former-youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-wrote-message-final-weeks-before-cancer-death-8751339\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">the letter<\/a>, Wojcicki said that she was &#8220;totally shocked with this diagnosis&#8221; because she never smoked and was running a few miles a day.<\/p>\n<h2>The &#8216;Most Important Lesson&#8217; I Have Learned<\/h2>\n<p>In the letter, Wojcicki, who was CEO of YouTube for almost a decade (2014 to 2023) said that &#8220;the most important lesson&#8221; she learned &#8220;is just to focus and enjoy the present!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life is unpredictable for everyone, with many unknowns, but there is a lot of beauty in everyday life,&#8221; she added. &#8220;My goals going forward are to enjoy the present as much as possible and fight for better understanding and cures for this disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Read the full letter, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/inside-youtube\/from-susan\/\" rel=\"follow\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/susan-wojcicki-shares-important-lesson-in-final-letter\/483500\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki died in August from lung cancer at age 56. She was Google&#8217;s 16th employee and reportedly rented out her garage to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page in the late 1990s when they were forming the company. 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