Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away. 

The technology and business executive was 56 years old.

In a Facebook post Wojcicki's husband, Dennis Troper, broke the news to the public about her demise. 

Troper wrote, "It is with profound sadness that I share the news of Susan Wojcicki's passing. My beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non small cell lung cancer."

Wojcicki leaves behind her husband and four children. She was battling lung cancer. 

Wojcicki joined Google in 1999 to become one of its first few employees, years before it acquired YouTube. Google bought YouTube in 2006 for USD 1.65 billion. Before becoming CEO of YouTube in 2014, Wojcicki was senior vice president for ad products at Google. 

After nine years at the helm, Wojcicki stepped down from her role at YouTube in 2023 to focus on "family, health, and personal projects." She was replaced by her deputy, Neal Mohan, a senior advertising and product executive who joined Google in 2008. At that time, Wojcicki planned to take on an advisory role at Alphabet, Google's parent company.

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google, expressed his condolences and grief through an X post.