Susan Diane Wojcicki was born in Santa Clara County, California, USA of Polish American (father) and Russian Jewish (mother) descent. She is the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of YouTube, responsible for the acquisition of YouTube and DoubleClick under Google, as well as the development of AdSense.
So just how rich is Susan Wojcicki. Her net worth is estimated by sources to be $300 million, which she has amassed from her successful business career under Google, where she has been at the forefront since its inception.
Susan Wojcicki Net Worth $300 Million
Wojcicki was born on 5 July 1968 to parents Stanley and Esther, both of whom are educators. Her father was a physics professor at Stanford University and her mother a high school journalism teacher. Due to her father’s job, the family was able to live inside the Stanford campus. Her sisters, Janet and Anne, shared their father’s love for science, with Janet obtaining PhDs in anthropology and epidemiology and Anne founding the biotechnology company 23andMe. Wojcicki attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California. She then completed her college education at Harvard University in 1990 with flying colors, majoring in history and literature. She studied further, earning a master’s degree in economics in 1993 and business administration in 1998, both from the University of California (UCLA), Santa Cruz.
After finishing her schooling, she rented out her garage to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Menlo Park for $1,700 a month to serve as their makeshift office. Wojcicki then worked at Intel, Bain & Company, and R.B. Webber & Company before becoming Google’s first official marketing manager in 1999. She focused on initial viral marketing programs and was central to the creation of Google doodles, and then took part in the development of Google Images and Google Books. She was eventually promoted as the senior vice-president of Advertising & Commerce and spearheaded the development of AdSense, which became Google’s second biggest source of revenue. She also managed the acquisition of YouTube (2006) and DoubleClick (2007), worth $1.65 billion and $3.1 billion, respectively. She was then named the Senior Vice-President of YouTube and subsequently CEO not long after in 2014. Her net worth rose accordingly.
Wojcicki has made it on to the list of several publications such as Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women (2010-2013), Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People (2015), Vanity Fair’s New Establishment (2015), and Forbes’ list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women (2011, 2014), Forbes’ list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women (2015), and number one on Adweek 50 (2013). In addition, she’s also widely regarded as Google’s most important woman. Her net worth continues to grow.
As for her personal life, Susan married Dennis Troper, who also works at Google, in 1998, and their nearly 18 years of marriage has given them five children. She wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal advocating paid maternity leave as well as being behind Google’s in-house day care center. Despite her very busy schedule, Wojcicki still tries to maintain a work-life balance.
