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Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who died of cancer last week at the age of 56, was a visionary leader in tech and in life. Unlike Elon Musk, who has stoked fear about a population collapse while cutting parental leave at Twitter (now X), Wojcicki understood the importance of paid maternity leave as a retention tool. She was Google’s first employee to take it, having let its cofounders work out of her garage before joining the startup in 1999 when she was four months pregnant.
