Susan Wojcicki

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Susan Wojcicki by Mind Map: Susan Wojcicki

1. ABOUT HER LIFE

1.1. She born on July 5 of 1968 in Santa Clara County

1.2. She is the daughter of Esther Wojcicki, an educator of Russian Jewish descent, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish American physics professor at Stanford University.

1.3. She has 2 sisters: Janet Wojcicki, PhD, anthropologist and epidemiologist; and Anne Wojcicki, founder of 23andMe.

1.4. Wojcicki married Dennis Troper on August 23, 1998 in Belmont, California. They have five children. On December 16, 2014, ahead of taking her fifth maternity leave, Wojcicki wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal about the importance of paid maternity leave.

1.5. She is often quoted talking about the importance of finding balance between family and career.

2. COMPANIES

2.1. She also is the mother of youtube.

2.2. Google has bought youtube.

2.3. The site allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report and comment on videos, subscribe to other users, and it makes use of WebM, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos.

3. IMPORTANT THINGS

3.1. Is an American technology executive. She is the current CEO of YouTube.

3.2. She is considered one of the richest people in the United States and in the Forbes list are one of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

3.3. Wojcicki studied history and literature at Harvard University and graduated with honors in 1990.

3.4. She originally planned on getting a PhD in economics and pursuing a career in academia, but changed her plans when she discovered technology.