YouTube Just Shared the Final Message From Its Former CEO Susan Wojcicki Who Died From Lung Cancer This Summer. Read Her 'Most Important Lesson.'

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki died successful August from lung crab astatine property 56. She was Google's 16th worker and reportedly rented retired her car shed to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page successful the precocious 1990s erstwhile they were forming the company.

On Monday, YouTube shared a letter they titled, "From Susan," that Wojcicki wrote earlier she died. It was to beryllium a blog post she created for Lung Cancer Awareness Month.

"Susan wrote a station successful the last weeks of her life that she planned to people this fall," Neal Mohan, the existent CEO of YouTube, writes of Wojcicki.

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Wojcicki fought lung crab for 2 years and spent the clip educating group connected the illness and advocating for investigation funding.

"Through Susan, I learned that lung crab is the number 1 origin of crab decease successful women," Mohan said. "She wanted to alteration those odds."

In the letter, Wojcicki said that she was "totally shocked pinch this diagnosis" because she ne'er smoked and was moving a fewer miles a day.

The 'Most Important Lesson' I Have Learned

In the letter, Wojcicki, who was CEO of YouTube for almost a decade (2014 to 2023) said that "the astir important lesson" she learned "is conscionable to attraction and bask the present!"

"Life is unpredictable for everyone, pinch galore unknowns, but location is simply a batch of beauty successful mundane life," she added. "My goals going guardant are to bask the coming arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable and conflict for amended knowing and cures for this disease."

Read the afloat letter, here.