The business executive helped turn Google into an internet juggernaut and became one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley.
  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    She made some poor decisions, but that doesn’t mean she deserved to be finished off by cancer.

    I kinda miss the time she was CEO of YouTube, the chaos she brought to the website was just absolutely hilarious and funny. And now that Susan is gone, we’ll never experience that era of imperfections again. Not that I prefer it over the early years of YouTube, it’s trash by comparison, but still, it’s the FUN kind of trash. YouTube today is the painful kind of trash, especially with content farms basically dominating the website.

    Fuck cancer. Also, now that I said all that, I’m kind of expecting a stream of downvotes.

  • Ragdoll X@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Looked up her name on Twitter to see what people were saying about this, that was a mistake 🙄

    A lot of people seem to hate her for whatever reason, she was far from perfect, but all things considered I think she did fine as CEO and I never got the hate. It can’t be easy to manage a company as big and complex as YouTube.

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Looked up her name on Twitter to see what people were saying about this

      I’m seriously wondering what your intentions were when you did that.

    • SilentObserver@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      It’s fine to not like someone. There’s plenty of people in the world that I’m not a huge fan of. But I’d never advocate for or celebrate their deaths.

      I’m also struggling to understand what her being “fully vaxxed” has to do with lung cancer… 🤦🏻

      Anyway, rest in peace Susan Wojcicki.

      • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
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        1 month ago

        You know how vaccine skeptics are. They think the COVID jab is a Jewish plot or some similar bullshit designed to kill everyone who takes it.

    • yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I can’t imagine how hard it must be to manage a company as big and complex as YouTube.

      To be fair, not at all. Someone in her position would be making broad decisions, such as “should we have a downvote button,” and spending her time courting advertisers and handling the whiny board of directors, who are mostly geriatric babies.

      • Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I’ve never been a CEO of a company worth billions, and statistically, the likelihood of you being one is very very low. The truth is you have no idea what she did in her day to day life. I think the reality of it is she was probably working way over 40 hours a week because of the expectations from the alphabet shareholders. If she is paid millions, as an investor, id want the CEO to be working their ass off to give me a good return on my investment

        • yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          1 month ago

          These are billionaire CEOs, not artists. There’s nothing particularly mysterious about their work, which you can learn all about from the many, many self-fellating autobiographies their ghost writers churn out every year.

  • NostraDavid@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    She ignored community feedback (I want customized channels back!) and turned YouTube into the dopamine riddled mess it is today.

    Still, fuck cancer. My condoleances to her survivors.

  • rf_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Oh shit, this is the same person whose son died of an overdose at UC berkeley not long ago. In a sense I’m not surprised she passed, some people die of a broken heart.

    • PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I’m guessing her cancer is one of the factors that drove her son to OD…just speculating, obviously. Her husband must be fucking destroyed, this is awful.

  • Hyrulian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Just saw a post about this on TikTok and every one in the comments where cracking jokes and basically saying it was good she died. Couldn’t believe it. Whether or not you agree with how she ran YouTube, there’s no reason to be so cruel to a parent who died just after having to bury their own child. Glad Lemmy is being more thoughtful and respectful about this horrible situation.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Fuck Cancer.

    I don’t care about anything else about her right now. Everyone in the comments using her death as an opportunity to complain about their YouTube experience can go fuck themselves. Now isn’t the fucking time.

    56 is too young.

  • jaxiiruff@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    WTF I had no idea she was unwell. No matter how bad youtube was handled she didnt deserve this.