Masters of ScaleSusan Wojcicki's secret recruiting advice during YouTube shooter crisis
“So at lunch, she kinda snuggled up to me and was just like, you know, I hear Sundar wants to talk to you.”
The first conversation that I ever had with the late Susan Wojcicki, literally the first conversation I ever had, is when I was at Salesforce, and I was interviewing for the Google job, and she very sort of secretly came up to me because she was on the Salesforce board. So at lunch, she kinda snuggled up to me and was just like, you know, I hear Sundar wants to talk to you. He's great. You should go talk to him. And I asked her about the shooting at YouTube. They had had an active shooter in their building, in Northern California, and that it was known, that the shooter was looking for her
About this clip
A tech executive shares their first conversation with late YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who secretly approached them about a Google opportunity while serving on Salesforce's board. The conversation took an unexpectedly serious turn when they discussed the active shooter incident at YouTube's headquarters, where the shooter was specifically targeting Wojcicki.
Why this clip
This intimate anecdote reveals how top tech leaders navigate recruiting and crisis management, offering rare insight into Susan Wojcicki's character during a dangerous situation.
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