FinTech Magazine October 2019 | Page 82

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SUSAN WOJCICKI

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Beginning as Google ’ s 16th employee in 1999 , Susan Wojcicki is currently the CEO of Youtube . According to Forbes , she is the 7th most powerful woman in the world . With a bachelor ’ s degree in Literature and History from Harvard , as well as an MA in economics from UC Santa Cruz and an MBA from UCLA , she was responsible for the $ 1.65bn purchase of Youtube by Google in 2006 . Forbes places the current value of Youtube at approximately $ 90bn . OCTOBER 2019