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Emma Hinchliffe, Nina Ajemian

Susan Wojcicki blazed a trail for women in Silicon Valley

(Credit: Patrick T. Fallon—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Citigroup is selling its trust business, Sen. Elizabeth Warren is concerned about Elon Musk using Tesla resources to benefit his other companies, and we remember Susan Wojcicki.

- Rest in peace. Silicon Valley lost a pioneering executive who broke barriers for working women on Friday, when former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki died at 56 after two years living with lung cancer.

Wojcicki was famously part of Google from its earliest days, renting her garage to founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. She advocated for the tech giant to buy YouTube in 2006 and served as its CEO for nine years as the platform grew to define the modern media era, with the accompanying challenges of massive growth. Today, users stream more than 1 billion hours of video via the platform every day.

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