Former YouTube CEO and Silicon Valley trailblazer Susan Wojcicki has died at age 56

Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who was also one of the most influential early Google employees, has died at the age of 56 according to posts shared online by her husband Dennis Troper and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday night.

Wojicki led YouTube for nearly ten years and was one of the only women to hold the CEO role at a big tech company in Silicon Valley.

Wojcicki’s husband Dennis Troper wrote on Facebook early Friday night, “It is…