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" Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones. "
Susan Wojcicki
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" The fact that women represent such a small portion of the tech workforce shouldn't just be a wake-up call - it should be a Sputnik moment. The tech industry is not America's future; it is our present. "
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" Work smart. Get things done. "
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" 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. "
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" We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it. "
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" I think we have to recognize as an industry that users have a lot more choices and can click away to a lot more media. As a result, the advertising we create really needs to be something users want to see. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Girls are being left out of the conversation when it comes to technology, led to think of tech as insular and antisocial without ever being given a chance to correct those perceptions. "
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" The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. 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. "
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Desire
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Job
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Even though it was a start-up with fewer than 20 people, and I was pregnant with my first child, the best decision I've ever made was to join Google in 1999. Worst decision? Deciding to get a puppy and a bunny right when the baby came. "
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People
Child
Best
" YouTube is growing up, is basically my view of it. Growing up means our creators are growing up; they're getting more well known. We're providing programs for them to generate more revenue so they can generate even better, high-quality shows, and then also connecting them with the advertisers. "
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Better
View
Growing
" 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. "
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Same
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" Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters. "
Susan Wojcicki
Living
Writing
Book
" I think about my own career, and when I graduated from college, the Internet didn't really exist yet. And so not having a specific plan, being able to be opportunistic at the end, is what enabled me to make some of my best decisions, which is to go to places that were growing but that I didn't plan to have happen. "
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College
Think
Me
" Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be. "
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Mobile
Will
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" Advertising is a very fundamental need, so I don't think it's going to go away. "
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Go
Advertising
Going
" I've seen all of these decisions that have been made by all these great leaders who have been part of Google, and this has been an opportunity for me when I'm running YouTube, is to be able to take advantage of all of those memories. "
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Decisions
Great
Memories
" I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use. "
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Product
Prototype
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" If women don't participate in tech, with its massive prominence in our lives and society, we risk losing many of the economic, political, and social gains we have made over decades. "
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Society
Women
Losing
" 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. "
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Leader
Me
Responsibility
" If you are working 24/7, you're not going to have any interesting ideas. "
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" I've been, like, the mom of Google. "
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" I don't feel like I'm a perfect mom, and then there are times at work where I feel like maybe I wasn't perfect here because of constraints on my time. But having the sum of both of those things going on in my life makes me a better mom at the end of the day, and I think gives me really important perspectives in the workplace as well. "
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Mom
Work
Time
" Google has been doing well. As much as possible we're trying to share back with the employees. They will continue to create a lot of value. "
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Value
Create
Doing
" Employing more women at all levels of a company, from new hires to senior leaders, creates a virtuous cycle. Companies become more attuned to the needs of their female employees, improving workplace culture while lowering attrition. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Coding is like writing, and we live in a time of the new industrial revolution. What's happened is that maybe everybody knows how to use computers, like they know how to read, but they don't know how to write. "
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