Wojcicki played a key role in Google’s creation and served nine years as YouTube’s CEO, stepping down last year to focus on her “family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about,” she said at the time.

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    3 months ago

    Husband’s statement says she’d been living with non small cell lung cancer for 2 years. I hope that time after she stopped working built good memories for her family.

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      This is why I am at odds with this “work hard and retire early” and “live way below your means” thing, you never know if there is going to be a later, and wasting your 20s, 30s, 40s, even 50s to have a happy 60s or 70s seems like a dystopic thing to do.