TOP 100 WOMEN
04 Susan Wojcicki
CEO
YouTube
• Has an MBA and an MS in Economics from the University of California , Los Angeles
• Previously the SVP of Adwords & AdSense at Google
• Has experience in Product Management and Analytics
• As CEO of Youtube , she is responsible for overseeing the operations of the company
Profile
As its 16th employee , Susan Wojcicki has been fully immersed in the world of technology at Google having worked on AdSense , Google Analytics , Google Books and Google Images .
" Wojcicki has been an advocate for the expansion of paid family leave , countering gender discrimination at technology companies , and getting girls interested in computer science and prioritising coding in schools " |
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Now Wojcicki is CEO of Alphabet subsidiary YouTube , which has 2 billion monthly users . The technologist advocated for the US $ 1.65bn acquisition of YouTube in 2006 and has run the company since 2014 .
Wojcicki graduated with a Bachelor of Arts / Science degree from Harvard University and went on to complete her Master of Science at the University of California , Santa Cruz . In 2021 , the CEO made it onto Forbes ’ Power Women List and its America ’ s Self-Made Women list .
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