Death of Silicon Valley figure Susan Wojcicki at 56
Susan Wojcicki died at age 56 after a two year battle with non small cell lung cancer. A longtime Google early employee and YouTube chief, she helped launch AdSense Google Analytics Google Books and Google Images and led the 2006 acquisition of YouTube. Survivors include two sisters and her mother. Her husband Dennis Troper announced the death and noted she stepped down from YouTube last year to focus on health and family. She was born July 5 1968 in Santa Clara California and leaves a legacy as a pivotal tech leader.
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Susan Wojcicki
Google
Silicon Valley
YouTube
Dennis Troper
Wojcicki
Wo-jis-key
Intel
Menlo Park
California
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Page
Brin
AltaVista
Netscape
AdSense
Google Analytics
Google Books
Google Images
Shepherd
DoubleClick
Justice Department
Sundar Pichai
New York Times
Atlantic Council
Erin
Susan Diane Wojcicki
Santa Clara
Stanford University
Harvard University
University of California At Santa Cruz
UCLA
The
Wall Street Journal
Fortune
Marco
Anne Wojcicki
23andMe
Janet Wojcicki
University of California At San Francisco
Esther Wojcicki
Forbes
Planet
Randy Kehler helped spark Pentagon Papers leak legacy
The obituary outlines Randy Kehler as a pivotal antiwar activist who inspired Daniel Ellsberg to copy the Pentagon Papers after meeting Kehler at a 1969 antiwar conference. It details Kehler’s life from New York to Massachusetts, his tax resistance stand, the 1989 IRS seizure of his Colrain home, his 1991 jail stint, and his ongoing influence as a mentor while advancing nuclear freeze and campaign finance reform.
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Daniel Ellsberg
Pentagon
New York Times
Ellsberg
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Edward Snowden
Randy Kehler
Philadelphia
Kehler
Vietnam
Shelburne Falls
Massachusetts
Betsy Corner
New York
Kee-Ler
Internal Revenue Service
Colrain
Pete Seeger
Daniel J. Berrigan
Martin Sheen
Haverford College
Pennsylvania
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Marine Corps
South Vietnam
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Rand Corp
Oakland
California
Selective Service
Anthony J. Russo
Times
Neil Sheehan
Gordon Randall Kehler
Bronxville
Scarsdale
Arnold Baking Company
Phillips Exeter Academy
Harvard
Harlem
Congress of Racial Equality
Washington
Max Sandin
Inter
Christian G. Appy
Tanzania
Stanford University
San Francisco
War Resisters League
Woolman Hill
Deerfield
Quakers
Corner
Randall Forsberg
United States
Soviet Union
Manhattan
Ronald Reagan
Moscow
IRS
Betty Prashker publisher who shaped modern women in publishing
Betty Prashker, pioneering editor who acquired Sexual Politics and Backlash and guided careers of Jean Auel, Dominick Dunne, and Erik Larson, died July 30 at 99 in Alford Massachusetts. She helped build Crown and Doubleday into Penguin Random House divisions, championing women’s advancement and pay. Born Betty Arnoff in New York, she began at Doubleday in 1945, later helped publish Millett, Larson, Auel, and Dunne, and influenced industry policies and leadership.
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New York
Betty Prashker
Kate Millett
Susan Faludi
Jean Auel
Dominick Dunne
Erik Larson
Prashker
Alford
Massachusetts
Lucy Prashker
Crown
Doubleday
Penguin Random House
Betty
Crown Publishing
Tina Constable
Betty Arnoff
New York City
Vassar College
Herbert Prashker
James Baldwin
Columbia University
Millett
Larson
White City
Auel
Dunne
Previ
Faludi
Medium.com
Crown Publishers
U.S
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