Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's 'most important lesson' revealed in final message she wrote while dying of cancer

YouTube released a last connection from erstwhile CEO Susan Wojcicki that revealed her 'most important beingness lesson' earlier she died from lung crab successful August.

Wojcicki, who was the CEO of YouTube from 2014 to 2023, wrote the short message successful 'the last weeks of her life' and intended to people it this fall, according to existent CEO Neal Mohan.

In the message, she talks astir her archetypal diagnosis, her enactment for cancer probe and the astir important acquisition she wanted to impart connected her chap quality beings.

That acquisition was to bask the elemental quality of mundane life.

'Having crab hasn’t been easy. As a idiosyncratic I person changed a lot, and astir apt the astir important acquisition I person learned is conscionable to absorption and bask the present!' she wrote. 'Life is unpredictable for everyone, with galore unknowns, but determination is simply a batch of quality successful mundane life.'

Wojcicki besides revealed however amazed she was erstwhile she was told she had cancer.

'I had astir nary symptoms and was moving a fewer miles a time astatine the time. I had ne'er smoked truthful I was wholly shocked with this diagnosis,' she wrote.

That's erstwhile she began digging up immoderate startling statistic astir lung crab showing however women are disproportionately affected. 

She pointed out that astir two-thirds of lung crab cases among non-smokers are women. Women who person ne'er smoked are more than doubly arsenic likely to make lung crab than men who person ne'er smoked.

Not lone that, current research also indicates that lung crab is rising among non-smokers careless of gender.

Wojcicki and her hubby Dennis Troper, who had already been donating to assorted crab causes, stepped up her engagement successful lung crab probe aft her diagnosis. 

'We rapidly learned lung crab was nether researched and misunderstood. We person since fixed millions of dollars to enactment aboriginal detection research, caller immunotherapy options that could cure cancer, gathering a assemblage of genotyped patients to amended recognize the disease, and cardinal probe to amended recognize the mechanisms and subject down the cancers,' she wrote.

She ended her enactment by saying: 'My goals going guardant are to bask the contiguous arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable and combat for amended knowing and cures for this disease.'

YouTube shared her connection due to the fact that November successful Lung Cancer Awareness Month. 

Wojcicki died connected August 9 successful Santa Clara, California.

Wojcicki was a well-known fig successful the tech world, particularly erstwhile she was astatine the helm of YouTube.

Earlier successful her vocation erstwhile she was an enforcement astatine Google, she was credited with pushing Google to bargain YouTube.

She became the video-sharing site's main enforcement 8 years aft the $1.65 cardinal acquisition successful 2006. 

Wojcicki and her hubby shared 5 children together, nevertheless their household experienced calamity successful February erstwhile their lad Marco Troper was recovered dormant from an evident cause overdose.

Marco, 19, was a freshman astatine UC Berkeley and was found unresponsive successful the Clark Kerr pupil complex.