Big Tech has lost one of its giants.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. Susan Wajiskiski, the former CEO of YouTube, and a visionary force at Google from its earliest days has died.

Wajiski appeared on Marketplace shows multiple times over the years,

and we wanted to listen back to some key moments.

In 2016, she told Marketplace's Kai Rizdahl that that growing up she wanted to be an artist.

She majored in literature and history, then studied economics and business before landing

in tech.

And I made this connection at one point

that technology actually had a lot of creative components

and that's actually what I think is missing a lot

and that's what drives a lot of girls to not understanding technology and I wish

they did like I just made this connection like wow I can I love creating things but I can create

with technology and I can make products and those products can be used around the world and that's like an amazing I mean anyone who has experienced this like you create a product you launch it and then you then an hour later you log on and hundreds of people have written

to you around the world telling you what they thought about your product or how it changed

them or how their kids use it.

They'll send a picture of them and their kid.

As soon as I discovered that, I realize like this is the art form for me.

In 1998, while working at Intel, Wajiski rented her garage to a couple of

Stanford grad students, Larry Page and Sergei Brin, who founded Google.

Wajiski went to work for the company as its 16th employee.

As the first marketing manager, she pioneered Google's ad business.

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