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THE POWER LIST

Source: Ursula Burns, Safra Catz, Susan Wojcicki, Mary Barra

Susan Wojcicki

CEO, YouTube

Wojcicki, who grew up in Stanford, California, was Google’s first marketing manager, joining the company in 1999, and by 2006 was heading up Google Video, which was then competing with a small upstart called YouTube. Wojcicki initiated Google’s $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube in 2006 and was named the video-sharing service’s CEO in 2014. Since that time, Wojcicki has increased the number of women working at YouTube to 30 percent of the total staff. Wojcicki—whom magazine once called “the most powerful woman on the Internet”—is worth an estimated $350 million, according to . “Whether it’s salary or

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