Susan Wojcicki, a pioneering tech executive who helped shape Google and YouTube, has died, her husband said. She was 56.

Wojcicki played a key role in GoogleB次元官网网址檚 creation and served nine years as YouTubeB次元官网网址檚 CEO, stepping down last year to focus on her B次元官网网址渇amily, health, and personal projects IB次元官网网址檓 passionate about,B次元官网网址� she said at the time.

She was one of the most respected female executives in the male-dominated tech industry.

Her collaboration with Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin began shortly after they incorporated their search engine into a business in 1998. Wojcicki rented the garage of her Menlo Park, California, home to them for $1,700 a month, cementing a formative partnership. Page and Brin B次元官网网址� both 25 at the time B次元官网网址� continued to refine their search engine in WojcickiB次元官网网址檚 garage for five months before moving Google into a more formal office and later persuaded their former landlord to come work for their company.

B次元官网网址淗er loss is devastating for all of us who know and love her, for the thousands of Googlers she led over the years, and for millions of people all over the world who looked up to her, benefited from her advocacy and leadership, and felt the impact of the incredible things she created at Google, YouTube, and beyond,B次元官网网址� Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in a note to employees.

B次元官网网址淢y beloved wife of 26 years and mother to our five children left us today after 2 years of living with non small cell lung cancer,B次元官网网址� her husband, Dennis Troper, said in a social media post late Friday.

B次元官网网址淪usan was not just my best friend and partner in life, but a brilliant mind, a loving mother, and a dear friend to many,B次元官网网址� Troper said.

No other details of her death were immediately provided.

Wojcicki and TroperB次元官网网址檚 19-year-old son, Marco Troper, died in February at the UC Berkeley campus where he resided as a freshman student.

Ken Miller, The Associated Press