Susan Wojcicki
My kids know I'm home every night for dinner.
I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from.
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.
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.
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.
Your kids get something from your career, and your career will get something from your kids.
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.
After my kids go to bed, I check email. It's about having that balance.
Having a child is a big life change, but the really hectic period is relatively short. You can get through it.
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.
Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.Collection: Nice
Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.Collection: Successful
Work smart. Get things done. No nonsense. Move fast.Collection: Smart
From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.Collection: Technology
Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.Collection: Kids
As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up and always saying something that might be kind of controversial . . . . The thing I think that we got out of that that was really good was, like, we weren't afraid to make waves.Collection: Mom
The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to scienceCollection: Motivation
There are unlimited opportunities for display advertising. In fact, we're in the process of massive change in the display industry - how it's bought, how it's sold, and how it's targeted.Collection: Business