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Susan Wojcicki has died
- dredmorbius 2y ago[flagged]
- threeseed 2y agoWhen you look at X today and Reddit in years past, YouTube was well run. And her legacy will be the incredible and I would argue positive impact it has had on society.
- sneak 2y agoCensorship platforms do not benefit society. They benefit the censors and shareholders. Nobody reaps benefit from other people deciding what they shouldn’t be able to watch.
- thomassmith65 2y agoIt's remarkably easy to think of examples that disprove that claim. First one to pop into my head was 'how to make bathroom cleaner at home with bleach and alcohol'
- vsuperpower2021 2y ago[flagged]
- nailer 2y agoWhy? I would absolutely have community notes over political censorship every day.
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoThe most free expression on the internet currently. Of course I t is hated by a majority segment who is mad the old system was taken away.
- pixxel 2y agoAnd I’ll argue the negative impact, but not today.
- tibbydudeza 2y agoAgreed Youtube is still my goto platform for entertainment and it is not a total cesspool like X - she left behind a great legacy never mind the fake controversies stoked by some content creators to get clicks. There is always Kick and Rumble if you did not like it.
- bun_terminator 2y agoNot the day to argue about this, but this is definitely not the canonical opinion on her work for youtube
- suddenexample 2y agoAside from the tastelessness of this comment, I really don't see what point this is trying to make.
- popularornot 2y agoYeah it was a tasteless comment. It's not good form to speak ill of the dead. Let sleeping dogs lie. Even the bible says something like that: "Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge." -James 4:11 (KJV) To answer your question and speak to the subject matter in the most mundane and academic sense possible, it was focusing in on YT's having become well-known for its level of having turned to political correctness (part and parcel of advertiser friendliness perhaps) in the form of changes in community standards, terms of service, and anti-mis-and-disinfo policies seen by strict free-speech advocates (and some other groups) as especially onerous and undesirable. Officially, the privately owned [but publicly traded] company can do that, and the matter even was decided upon by the United States Supreme Court recently. Although, it is also officially the case that much of this kind of selective information permissibility was indeed government-suggested, which does raise more questions about kosherness. Further, what could potentially be seen as the recursive externalization and deferral of responsibility (arguably for political, social, or economic reasons) rather than acknowledging and taking on hard tasks is a related moral issue (requiring tremendous courage given the scenario, and perhaps an academic rigor and breadth and depth of capacity not commonly found anywhere, anyway). These are the unsavory matters that many ivory armchair critics of the past, present, and future may sadly think of regarding the past several years of YT in particular (though really many observers were acutely aware of them over the last 10 years or so as a progression), and naturally a topmost corporate face is seen as having been some kind of responsible decision-maker (regardless of the truth of the matter). Instead, those critics could be making better technological and sociological solutions, and educating, and admitting that people are imperfect and can all do their best. Instead of criticizing others.
- georgel 2y agoThis is a very sad day. For her to also lose her son in February too.
- snake_doc 2y agoTragic loss to the world
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- sgammon 2y agoI would also vote for the black bar if possible
- 1234554321a 2y agoI want to vote against this. Thanks.
- sgammon 2y agoI'm honestly curious, why? I didn't expect to be downvoted.
- grandmczeb 2y ago> Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend @SusanWojcicki after two years of living with cancer. She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her. She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous impact on the world and I’m one of countless Googlers who is better for knowing her. We will miss her dearly. Our thoughts with her family. RIP Susan. Posted by Sundar Pichai.
- akchin 2y agoThis sucks. I was at Google many years back and I remember her to be an awesome product leader. In fact even though I was another org, she was helpful and really helped me and our team.
- pas 2y agoexcuse me for this offtopic (?) tangent, but can you please expand on what does being a good/amazing product leader mean? every kind of context helps, as I have no experience working inside these huge super-successful corps. thanks!
- richrichie 2y agoFeel good adjectives.
- gretch 2y agoMakes insightful directives on what to put in as the core value of a product. When you are making stuff that the world really hasn’t seen before, it’s really hard to know what people want, as they often can’t tell you directly. I’m not familiar with Susan’s work directly, but for example, it’s widely accepted that YT has the best revenue share and payout for its creators compared to competitors like twitch or TikTok. Someone has to really sit down and figure out how getting paid for making internet videos works. It didn’t exist before. Also great product leaders give team members principles and tools to work with (like metrics), so they don’t need to micromanage every decision, and the product can still be cohesive.
- rishabhjain1198 2y agoRest in peace. A true SV legend.
- broknbottle 2y agowhoa, I believe her son also passed away like ~5 months ago.
- jjallen 2y agoYeah super sad recent events in the family. Reminds me that no matter how much money you have life can still hit us hard.
- thrownawaysz 2y ago[flagged]
- Xenoamorphous 2y agoYes just read that in Wikipedia. Really sad.
- rottencupcakes 2y agoAn accidental drug overdose on campus at UC Berkeley. One wonders if his mom having terminal cancer was a factor in his overdoing it. And I cannot imagine how news like that would hit a mother with cancer, when the only thing left for her is legacy. Truly tragic.
- talldatethrow 2y ago[flagged]
- underdeserver 2y agoDon't be so quick to judge. Your mother dying of cancer at such a young age is hard. Everyone deals with it their own way.
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- langsoul-com 2y agoInteresting how it's a threads link, and how it loads infinitely faster than Twitter
- celdon25 2y ago[flagged]
- kreetx 2y agoTwitter loads in a reasonable time for me, yet Facebook loads slow.
- kylehotchkiss 2y agoRegardless of how people feel about it, Meta/FB is sure putting a lot of resources into it and it seems like it's growing even on people who didn't do a text-first social network in the past.
- sgammon 2y agoWow. Way too soon :(
- valid4life 2y agoR.I.P. - too soon.
- wetpaws 2y ago[dead]
- sgammon 2y agoWho is this guy on Threads? Sundar's tweet should be the canonical source: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588 https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588
- aaomidi 2y ago[flagged]
- pogue 2y agoCasey Newton, former editor @ The Verge & who currently runs platformer.news, a pretty significant tech news site in his own right. I'm not sure why he's going by 'crumbler' these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Newton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Newton
- CSMastermind 2y agoFYI Sundar Pichai posted a tribute: https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588 https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588 > Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend @SusanWojcicki after two years of living with cancer. She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her. She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous impact on the world and I’m one of countless Googlers who is better for knowing her. We will miss her dearly. Our thoughts with her family. RIP Susan. I'll say personally it's tragic to see someone like this pass in their 50s. Given Susan's impact on both Google as a whole and more specifically YouTube it's no understatement to say that she changed the world profoundly. I don't think that YouTube, in its current form, or the creator economy that it produced, would exist in anywhere near the same shape had Google not acquired and then spent years funding the company at a financial loss.
- xbmcuser 2y agoShe had a huge impact on YouTube and with it the world as I personally feel YouTube has become one of the largest resource of information on how to do almost anything for the newer generations as well as for people that had no access because they could not read. And as ai translation get better the impact on billions of people will be huge.
- guywithahat 2y agoI can’t get the link to load, but here’s Pichai’s take: > Unbelievably saddened by the loss of my dear friend @SusanWojcicki after two years of living with cancer. She is as core to the history of Google as anyone, and it’s hard to imagine the world without her. She was an incredible person, leader and friend who had a tremendous impact on the world and I’m one of countless Googlers who is better for knowing her. We will miss her dearly. Our thoughts with her family. RIP Susan. https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588?s=46 https://x.com/sundarpichai/status/1822132667959386588?s=46
- orionblastar 2y agoRIP she will be missed.
- wetpaws 2y ago[dead]
- Yeri 2y agoOriginal post on fb: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/qe2ZMcs9Bz4K1SPt/ https://www.facebook.com/share/p/qe2ZMcs9Bz4K1SPt/
- nsoonhui 2y agoHer sister, Anne, is the ex spouse of Google founder Brin, and 23andme cofounder. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki
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- momoschili 2y agowhat a tragedy... I can't think of many sites with the impact that YouTube has had, especially during her tenure as the lead. lung cancer as well, I don't think she was a smoker so what a bad stroke of luck.
- talldatethrow 2y agoRumble and X posts are gloating that she blocked/delisted anti covid vaccine videos on YouTube, and then gets cancer, something the videos tried to warn people of related to vaccines. I'm not sure what to say about that anymore.
- seydor 2y agojust say that there are a lot of idiots in the world
- talldatethrow 2y agoOn both sides probably. One side exaggerates statistics to make their point, and the other wishfully accepts unproven statements to feel better. I've taken basically all vaccines ever recommended while growing up and traveling, but to say that the covid vaccine was "safe and effective" a year after coming out was a crazy stretch. Why couldn't they just say "we didn't have time to do long term studies, but we think it's fine and worth the risks"? But to say it's safe was a lie IMO and lost the vaccine side a lot of credibility.
- wetpaws 2y ago[dead]
- chubot 2y agoI always thought it was cool that Google started in her garage in Menlo Park. Too young to be gone :-(
- carabiner 2y agoOne thing I've heard is that before age 40, people die of trauma or suicide. After age 40, people, including the healthy, just starting dying of everything.
- LZ_Khan 2y agoWow. Terribly sad series of events for that family. Life is not fair.
- yyyfb 2y agoNext time you're thinking "I wish I was the one who had made a billion dollars with my startup idea", remember that only health and family matter, and to have fun while you're alive. RIP. Edit: some people misinterpreted my comment. I'm just one anonymous voice on the Internet, but am deeply saddened by the passing of Susan Wojcicki, who meant a lot to me as one of the many people who crossed paths with her professionally. I wish her family strength in a very trying moment. She did not deserve this. I've not met another business leader demonstrate everyday kindness to the degree that she did. Her untimely passing is also a reminder to those of us who sometimes look up to such successful businesspeople that we should all appreciate our luck to be alive and enjoy it to the fullest, as I hope that she did as well, and as I'm sure that she'd prefer we did. RIP
- dyauspitr 2y agoSusan didn’t start YouTube.
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- presentation 2y agoSo this comment applies to people who are at least somewhat affluent and career-ambitious. Perhaps this person does not need to be addressing everybody on the planet to be making a valid statement.
- thrownawaysz 2y agoBoth this and the other posts are full of rich people apologists, “remember billionaires are humans too!”. So out of touch when billions live in poverty but imagine telling them, “remember have fun money doesn’t matter” when they can’t even have basic clean water or clothes
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- daveed 2y agoI'm not a Googler, but would still ask commenters to show some respect for the person who died, and save your opinions about youtube for another day.
- asah 2y agoIn particular, Susan was a lovely soul and specifically deserves all of our respect. If you want to hate, then hate the game, not the player (especially in this case).
- somenameforme 2y agoThis saying never made sense to me as a game is only a game if there are players.
- lotsofpulp 2y agoThe point of the saying is that the player is not necessarily in position to change the rules, or at least not in the immediate short term. How far one wants to accept this as acceptable reasoning is a subjective matter.
- sleeplessworld 2y agoOr maybe not that subjective when looked at closer. It may just as well be a saying that the entitled classes use to defend their selfish and less than good behaviour. Beacause the classes of the not-entitled buy this as somehow having reasonable meaning. The entitled classes have no reason to change rules that are clearly stacked in their favour. But it sounds way better to say the rules cannot be changed. But it is hard to see why this should be self-evidently true.
- wruza 2y agoYou can offset basically anything with it. It's another way to say "it's just a collection of atoms working by the laws of nature". Most of these proverbs are just selling bs.
- rubyn00bie 2y agoCan we have another black bar at the top of hackernews? Feel free to delete this comment, dang, et. al. She’s just obviously had an outsized effect on us all whether we realize it or not.
- reducesuffering 2y agoHer son just died of a fentanyl overdose just a few months ago too? Not even a billion $ will protect you from America's problems with cancer and fentanyl. We need to fix this. I mean, just look at this chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-incidence?tab=chart&country=OWID_WRL~European+Region+%28WHO%29~WHO_SEAR~USA~AUS~GBR~DEU~MEX~CAN~JPN~BRA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cancer-incidence?tab=char... Is it pesticides like this recent HN thread alludes to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182121 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182121 Idk. But the US is uniquely doing something very wrong.
- mieses 2y agothe pharmocracy will allow a cure for cancer?
- viraptor 2y agoWe've got a number of working cures and preventions for cancers, just not most types and many are not 100% reliable. I'm happy to complain about pharma and we've still got a long way to go, but this is a bad take. Yes, they've "allowed" it for years. (Did you get your HPV vaccine already?)
- asah 2y ago+1 - cancer prognosis used to be treated as a death sentence for most forms of cancer and "stage 4" was almost immediately referred to hospice. Amazing progress in our lifetimes, and an impressive roadmap ahead.
- throwaway2037 2y agoAs I understand about the HPV vaccine: It only prevents new infections. It does not cure existing infections. And you need to get it very young to reduce chances of infection before vaccine.
- viraptor 2y agoCorrect. That one falls under preventions. But that one also protects your partners.
- lchengify 2y agoWas shocked to hear this news. I worked for Google years ago but I was in the NYC office, so we didn't run into the YouTube folks much. Opinions about YouTube may be mixed here on HN, but it is objectively one of the most successful businesses in tech or media to emerge in the past 15 years. If it weren't buried inside Alphabet, Youtube would be worth on the order of $400 billion, more than Disney and Comcast combined. It's a weird mix of a huge creator monetization network, a music channel, an education platform, a forever-store of niche content, and a utility. It's also not a business that rested on it's laurels. It's easy to forget how novel creator monetization was when YouTube adopted it. They do a lot of active work to manage their creators, and now have grown into a music and podcast platform that is challenging Apple. To top it off, YouTube TV, despite costing just as much as cable, is objectively a good product. Few products have the brand, the reach, monetization, and the endurance that YouTube has had within Google. And I know for a fact that this is in no small part due to the way it was managed. I've probably watched tens of thousands of hours of YouTube at this point. Some of it sublime, some of it absurd, some of it critical for my work or my degree. I couldn't imagine a world without it. RIP.
- georgel 2y agoAgreed, I have gotten insane amount of value from YouTube.
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- TMWNN 2y ago>Opinions about YouTube may be mixed here on HN Who? Who has a negative opinion about YouTube? The occasional "My kids watch too much of it" != "mixed opinions" about the site in general.
- cheeseomlit 2y agoI like a lot of content hosted on YouTube but that doesn't mean I like YouTube, especially under Google.
- postatic 2y agoWe argue about agile processes, front end frameworks, languages, microservices, revenues, fundings, options, shares, hustles and all and at the end of the day we return back to the earth.
- silisili 2y agoThe thought helps ground me(no pun intended), whether during aforementioned battles at work or worrying over something in life. Not really religious, but always liked the short line 'For dust you are, and to dust you shall return'
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- DanielleMolloy 2y agoRIP. Her son just died early this year, from a drug overdose. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/31/marco-troper-susan-wojcicki-son-cause-of-death/73920826007/ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/31/marco-t...
- sva_ 2y ago> Troper's autopsy found high concentrations of cocaine, amphetamine, alprazolam (Xanax), What a strange mix.
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- kamikaz1k 2y agoWere they being sarcastic? Why is it funny/not? Thank you
- shortrounddev2 2y agoThey weren't being funny, that is a strange mix to OD on
- AbstractH24 2y agoBy and large overdose is a result of irrational thinking, or misguided attempts to apply logic. So it doesn’t make sense to make judgements about or apply ration to the drugs someone ODs on. Also, it doesn’t seem so weird for someone to try and mix uppers and downers. And those are all commonly abused drugs. For those reasons, I can only assume this comment was a poor attempt at sarcasm and/or humor.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoCocaine and Xanax is a strange combination. I have never heard of their mixing before.
- oyebenny 2y agoShe is internet history.
- deadbabe 2y agoCrazy how so many young people are just dying of cancer these days.
- jasonvorhe 2y agoCrazy, right?
- sumedh 2y agoYou are getting aware of it more due to social media.
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- halfmatthalfcat 2y agoOh brother.
- blangk 2y agoIt does seem somewhat relevant
- halfmatthalfcat 2y agoIt's a doomer, conspiratorial take without any evidence, especially when it's a vailed insinuation.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoAll evidence starts as anecdotal observation. Even the world’s most groundbreaking papers are, at their root, a collection of anecdotal observations others look into. Secondly, absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence. Just because there’s no evidence for something being harmful, doesn’t mean there’s any evidence proving the something isn’t harmful. So look, I’m not an antivaxxer, but I say, “prove it.” Instead of saying “there’s no evidence it’s causing cancer,” write papers proving that it can’t be. I have no problem with the burden of proof being on for-profit billion-dollar companies repeatedly convicted of wrongdoing.
- LoveMortuus 2y agoRest in peace Susan
- mrkramer 2y agoSuch a devastating news from the human therefore emotional perspective; just 6 months after her freshman son overdosed, now she is gone too. I hope they will be reunited in the afterlife.
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- CoastalCoder 2y agoI'm not a Christian, but IIUC (apologies if I get this wrong): They hold that none of us can ever be good enough for God's standards. That's why Jesus' atoning sacrifice is such a big deal. So pick the person you hold in highest regard, and they're still too sinful to merit eternal life. And pick the worst person you can imagine, and Jesus' sacrifice is enough to cover them too.
- mrkramer 2y agoYea, God will judge her because she banned XY content or whatever....Google is liberal company which operates in the capitalistic liberal democratic USA and that's how YouTube is run. It's very hard to balance the freedom of speech and the artistic expression or whatever else you want to balance, there is no silver bullet.
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- pshirshov 2y agoYou may ask me where my tinfoil hat is, but something strange seems to be happening. My neighbour who never smoked suddenly discovered he has terminal lung cancer. Radon tests in his house were negative. The cases of early lung cancer in healthy non-smoking individuals seem to be on rise in Ireland over last 5-6 years according to the official statistics. In the news I'm reading about massive amount of cases of persistent cough which "takes weeks to resolve".
- sampo 2y ago> In the news I'm reading about massive amount of cases of persistent cough which "takes weeks to resolve". There is one more covid wave going on, so that could be a reason for many people coughing.
- wslh 2y agoMore familiar information about her and her successful family [1]. The book is available here [2] (the Kindle version is more expensive than the physical book editions though). Interesting to mention about the Polgar sisters again [3]. Z''L. [1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-godmother-of-silicon-valley-offers-advice-for-raising-successful-people/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-godmother-of-silicon-va... [2] https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Successful-People-Lessons/dp/1328974863/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GLN6XPQC8XPK&keywords=esther+wojcicki&qid=1561530828&s=books&sprefix=esther+woj%2Caps%2C264&sr=1-1&dplnkId=336ccfdc-6076-479c-84bc-5dca975c741a&nodl=1 https://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Successful-People-Lessons/d... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
- strikelaserclaw 2y ago[flagged]
- wslh 2y agoHave you read the book?
- _zagj 2y agotl;dr: wealth + connections = successful children
- wslh 2y agoI know many cases of no wealth, no connections, South American(s) and success. You should deep dive in hard work that helps the well prepared. Also culture plays. The world is not static. It sounds resentment to not follow the thread and argue more sustanciously.
- strikelaserclaw 2y agoI'm not saying people without any background or connections can't be successful. I'm saying that it is like winning a lottery to be even born to parents who even read books about how to make their kids successful. With that kind of parental dedication, i have no doubt that their kids would be successful even without reading the book above. Lets look at the timeline : 1. Be born to a stanford physics professor and his very conscientious/intelligent wife 2. Have google start in your garage 3. Pivot and be successful
- pmarreck 2y agoRIP. I hear that not everyone liked some of her decisions. Personally, I wish I had any control at all over YouTube Shorts.
- paxys 2y agoPeople of course associate her with YouTube, but Susan Wojcicki has had an overall fascinating career. Page and Brin started Google in her garage. She was employee #16 at the company. She was behind the Google logo, Google Doodles, Image Search, AdSense, then all of advertising, and ultimately YouTube. Safe to say Google would not be where it is today without her role. RIP.
- cmrdporcupine 2y agoYeah it's interesting to see the press and others really pushing on the YouTube thing when it is AdSense that made Google what it was and is still today. An advertising revenue money machine. And it was in many ways her baby.
- igetspam 2y agoI personally wouldn't be where I am without her. Google wasn't my first job but it was the first one that mattered and I was there pretty early (2004). The founding team set Google up for success. The tech was obviously key but you can still ruin good tech by running a bad business. She earned her success, multiple times and I have a deep appreciation for what she did and what she was part of. It's a sad day, for sure.
- strikelaserclaw 2y agoI always wonder how many people could have replicated similar successes if put in similar positions and i always feel like it is a lot. Like i can't imagine you taking someone from the same time period as newton or einstein and replacing them and seeing similar success but in a rich environment surrounded with bright people like early google, i feel like just being early to google is enough to guarantee that you'll have some good ideas. Using advertising to make money has always existed that is what tv channels and magazines did for a long time before the internet, i'm sure google would have been just as successful without google doodles or put another way - google's success allowed it to be whacky and not vice versa.
- hahamaster 2y agoYou're very wrong. Most people put in her position would be a disaster and they would either leave quickly or would be kicked out. Lots of people at Google left or were fired because they were crap, and they were definitely not randomly picked up from the street. She stayed and wasn't fired and that's because she was of the highest caliber.
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- bushbaba 2y agoSusan not only built up YouTube but also the community around her. She will be missed but not forgotten
- NelsonMinar 2y agoI admired Susan in the early days, long before Youtube. She did a remarkable job earning respect and leadership roles in a company that mostly only valued engineers. Also she was kind and humane in a way that was not entirely common at the company.
- Balgair 2y agoShe was someone who left a huge mark on my life. Though not in the forefront, but in the backend, so to speak. Fuck cancer.
- mupuff1234 2y agoI always assumed that ultra wealthy people can utilize preventive medicine to the max and catch stuff like cancer as soon as it appears - but i guess not?
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- meepmorp 2y agoYou should try to develop a personality that's not "terminally online weirdo with no empathy and an axe to grind."
- toomuchtodo 2y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208582
- whyenot 2y agoI went to school with her starting in elementary school on the Stanford campus through high school at Gunn. My mom was one of her teachers and just told me “this is so sad, she was such a beautiful kid. She went on to do amazing things.” Yes, she did.
- danjl 2y agoSusan lived four houses away from me on Tolman Dr.and I remember walking to Nixon elementary school carrying our instruments for music on Thursdays. Such a rough final year and such a wonderful life. RIP
- omot 2y agoare we not going to put a black bar on HN for her?
- crowcroft 2y agoI might be drawing too much from one specific example (although there aren't many examples to draw from in this case) but it smacks of ...something, that the passing of a female leader in the tech industry seems to draw a lot more ire than others, and also doesn't meet the standards for a black bar at the time of this comment (unless I missed it). Perhaps not as much of a 'technical' contributor to tech world, but one of the largest companies in the world started in her garage, she was an early employee and served in senior leadership for decades.
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- drblastoff 2y agoIt’s incredibly difficult to run a large social platform without it quickly devolving into a cesspool of hate speech, pornography, extremism, misinformation, propaganda, etc. It’s a never-ending tightrope walk, and you ultimately need to empower a team to make decisions they believe are in the best interests of the site and its users. But you can never please everybody. People who leave comments like this only reveal their naivety. But leaving comments like this today reveals something worse than naivety.
- 00_hum 2y agoit looks like she resigned as soon as she got cancer. crazy that it ended in such a similar way to so many ordinary people
- bsimpson 2y agoSame age as Steve Jobs when he died.
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- interludead 2y agoSusan's impact on the world and on those who knew her is undeniable. May she rest in peace.
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- tills13 2y agoHumbling that you can literally have it all and still not even make it to 60.
- danielktdoranie 2y agoCan’t say I will miss her. She was a tyrant who bragged about shutting down free speech and censoring people she did not agree with, the standard communist tactic of controlling language.
- rldjbpin 2y agoas a "youtuber" (yet to paid for their videos), SW was from my memory the only public leadership face of youtube. being ignorant to her role in the parent company, i like many directed all of our frustrations of the platform at her. definitely miss that now after the switch back to the faceless leadership, and saddened by the loss. condolences to the family.
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