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> Wojcicki, who joined Alphabet nearly 25 years ago…

I’m not a journalist, but that doesn’t sound right.

Read the article:

  Wojcicki has been involved with Google practically since the beginning. The company's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, set up office in her parents' garage soon after they incorporated Google in 1998. Wojcicki became Google's first marketing manager the following year and played a role in the earliest Google Doodles. In 2006, she encouraged Google to buy YouTube, which launched a year earlier.

> In September 1998, the same month that Google was incorporated, its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up office in Wojcicki's parents' garage in Menlo Park, California. [1]

2023-1998=25

Sounds right to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki#Career

Google started as a research project in 1995 and incorporated in 1998. Susan was an employee number 16. 25 years sounds about right.

Google's first office was in her parents' garage

No, her garage.

> With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki

https://about.google/intl/en_us/our-story/

It’s accurate. Google was started out of her parent’s garage, and she became involved around then.

>Google was founded on September 4, 1998

Maybe she was an early employee?

Google is that old, Alphabet isn't.

Splitting hairs. "Joined the entity that would later become <a part of> Alphabet", big deal.

You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.

I think k8sToGo's point is that she never "joined Alphabet", Alphabet did not exist when she joined Larry and Sergey. She joined concurrent with Google's founding as a company, she probably joined when the search engine was named Backrub. Alphabet would be created decades later.

Exactly. But I guess people don’t care about accuracy anymore.

If I'm not mistaken she was Sergei's girl friend back then or maybe it was her sister. Not sure but I remember his first wife had this last name.

Anne, sister, founded 23andme.

Yes, Alphabet was created less than 8 years ago. She probably joined Google.

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