Marco Trooper, the 19-year-old son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, was found dead in his UC Berkeley dormitory on Tuesday local time.
Marco Tropper.
Janet Gilmore, a spokeswoman for the University of California, Berkeley, said that around 4:23 p.m. local time on Tuesday, the university did find a student unresponsive in the dormitory.
At the same time, Marco Troop's grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, posted on her social ** to remember her grandson who passed away suddenly.
Marco Tropo's death is reportedly suspected to be related to a drug overdose. Janet said there is no sign of the death and that the investigation into the death is ongoing.
According to his grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, the family was devastated by the tragedy, and Marco was in the second semester of his freshman year of college, majoring in mathematics, which he loved so much. She said that while the cause of Troper's death has not yet been determined, she believes her grandson died of a drug overdose. She said the family is awaiting the results of the toxicology report.
Marco comes from the famous Wojcicki family in Silicon Valley, and his mother, Susan Wojcicki, rented a garage to his friends Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start their own business, and this became the place where Google was founded. Later, when Susan Wojccicki was 4 months pregnant, she joined Google Inc. and became Google's No. 16 employee and Google's first marketer.
Susan is known as "Google's goddess of wealth", and 97% of Google's profits are generated by the department she manages. Every year since 2011, she has been named one of Forbes magazine's "100 Most Powerful Women of the Year." Forbes estimates that she has a net worth of $7$800 million.
One of her greatest accomplishments at Google was convincing the company to buy YouTube and became YouTube's CEO in 2014. During her tenure, she worked to increase the representation of women in technology and advocated for paid parental leave.
On February 16, 2023, Susan announced her resignation as CEO of YouTube.
In addition to the most famous Susan Wojcicki, the Wojcicki family also has Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of the well-known genetic testing company 23andme.
According to ** reports, Anne Wojcicki has a net worth of about 6$900 million, her genetic testing company is currently valued at about $2.5 billion, and she was ranked 60th among global technology leaders in 2019.
According to Red Star News.