One of Google's earliest employees, Ms Wojcicki had been ill with lung cancer for two years.
Susan Wojcicki was one of Google's earliest employeesGoogle's chief executive Sundar Pichai announced that Ms Wojcicki had passed away after two years of living with lung cancer.
Once described as the "most important Googler you've never heard of", Ms Wojcicki was present at the company's beginnings when, in 1998, she rented outShe was later persuaded to leave her job at chip giant Intel to join Google, becoming the firm's 16th employee. "But then I see there are very few women in the industry," she said. "Overall the tech industry has, on average, probably about 20% women and I also look at the pipeline of girls coming out of technical degrees and it is very small."
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