Words matter. These are the best Susan Wojcicki Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The great thing about the Internet is you can launch a product, and within just a few hours, people will tell you what they think about it.
My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.
Unless we make computer science a priority, we risk making gender, class, and racial disparities worse as jobs flow to those with a computer science background.
People at different stages of their lives are doing different things, and they’re all using Google.
If a third of Americans’ time is being spent online, why is only a quarter of ad dollars spent there? It’s not proportional.
I love taking an idea… to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.
YouTube has moved culture forward in attitudes – on refugees, on LGBT issues – especially trans issues. There was untapped demand there; a lot of our users would still be under-served without us. We’re a platform that enables everyone to have a voice.
Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.
Let’s face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.
Underrepresented employees already have to overcome discriminatory barriers in their careers; they shouldn’t be expected to volunteer their time to help their companies do the same.
I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
People don’t understand the logistics of advertising. To have the ads purchased and run, you need to have a series of products that work together.
I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
What’s important is that I do my job really well, that I build great products and that I’m a great leader. All those things matter independent of gender. But I do think there’s a responsibility for me to support other women at Google.
Whether it’s salary or a promotion or a job, I think it’s important for women to ask for what they think they deserve.
People used to say that advertising wasn’t in Google’s DNA, and that’s obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn’t in Google’s DNA, and that’s not true any more.
It’s important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!
Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they’re not useful. They’re not relevant, or slow.
Don’t overplan your life. Joining Google when I was four months pregnant was a bit of a leap, but sometimes you have to do the right thing for you right now.
Google is fascinating, and the book isn’t finished. I’m creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.
Work smart. Get things done.
My smartest move was joining Google. It wasn’t obvious at the time that it would be a good decision. A lot of people, many of my friends, advised me against it.
Advertising is a very fundamental need, so I don’t think it’s going to go away.
Having a child is a big life change, but the really hectic period is relatively short. You can get through it.
Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be.
Paid leave is a not just a mother and child issue, it’s a societal issue we have.
First there’s my role just as an executive being responsible for advertising, regardless of gender. I think that’s a position that I take seriously. That’s the first role. But I think for my role as a woman at Google, you try to set a good example and be a role model for the other women in the organization.
My daughter was 10 years old when she told me she hated computers. As someone who has spent her career helping build one of the largest tech companies in the world, I was in shock. Suddenly an issue I faced repeatedly at work – the lack of women in tech – hit squarely at home.
I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.
I think I’ve always been able to see what’s coming, and when I was joining Google, people always said, ‘Why are you joining this company?’ It was so small at the time. I could see the importance of Google. I could see the way it was going to grow; it was going to become a big company.
My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology.
I see tech as… a force that is changing pretty much all parts of our society. It’s really sad for me that we don’t have enough women that are part of that.
Google is a business that gets paid when users want to see – want to click on – the ad. If we show ads that no one wants to see, we don’t generate revenue.
If you are working 24/7, you’re not going to have any interesting ideas.
In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are writing all over the Web what they think about things.
If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at school.
Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal.
Even in a culture where people are well meaning, there are sometimes ‘microaggressions.’ People who will just cut you off. You’ll be talking, and someone will interrupt you. That’s become a big pet peeve of mine.
I think the phone is a really personal device in a lot of ways. If you drop your phone or lose it there’s a moment of panic. On the other hand there’s a lot of control that users have.
As someone who’s been lucky to have a great career in tech, I know how creative and fulfilling a career in this industry can be for women. And I want to make sure we continue to recruit and retain great female hires.
