Dformer YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki is mourning the loss of her 19-year-old son Marco Troper. A Berkeley student was found dead in her dorm on Tuesday. Rescuers came too late and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of death is still unclear. However, his grandmother, American teacher and journalist Esther Wojcicki, told the SFGATE portal that the family assumed it was a drug overdose. The family is currently awaiting a toxicology report, but that could take several weeks. “We want to prevent another family from having to experience something like this,” Wojcicki told a San Francisco news portal. He wants to work on it with other relatives.
Susan Wojcicki is one of the most famous women in the American technology industry. He worked at Google for almost 25 years, which he himself joined in the early days. From 2014 to 2023, the now 55-year-old was the head of YouTube and brought billions in sales to the group. Wojcicki is married to Google executive Dennis Troper. The couple had five children, including the now deceased Marco.
“We are all devastated”
Wojcicki's sister Anne and her mother Esther are also well-known names in Silicon Valley. Anne Wojcicki co-founded the genetic testing company 23andMe and was married to Google founder Sergey Brin for several years. Esther Wojcicki is an award-winning educator. Among other things, he advises the US government on education issues, in 2019 he published the book “Panda Mama. How to raise happy and confident children.
Esther Wojcicki shared memories of her grandson on social networks. “Marco was the kindest, most loving, smartest, funniest and most beautiful person,” she wrote on Facebook. He had just started his second semester as a math student. “Marco's life was too short. We are all devastated to think of the opportunities and experiences he will no longer have and neither will we with him.