Former YouTube CEO’s son discovered lifeless in UC Berkeley dorm

Marco Troper, 19, was a freshman at UC Berkeley. A drug overdose is suspected. 

“He ingested a drug, and we don’t know what was in it,” Troper’s grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, told SFGATE. “One thing we do know, it was a drug.” The household, she added, is awaiting a toxicology report that might assist affirm the reason for dying, nevertheless it may take as much as a month.

“I think the most important thing is that teenagers and college students need to know that drugs today are not the same as the drugs of yesterday, they’re often laced with fentanyl,” Esther Wojcicki told the Every day Put up in Palo Alto.

A college spokesperson wrote to Fortune: “We can confirm that Marco Troper, a first-year freshman at UC Berkeley, has died. He was an undeclared major in the College of Letters & Science. We do not know the cause of death, that is to be determined by the coroner’s office.”

There have been “no signs of foul play” and an investigation is underway, in keeping with the College of California Police Division.

“Our family is devastated beyond comprehension,” Esther Wojcicki wrote in a Facebook post. “Marco was the most kind, loving, smart, fun and beautiful human being He was just getting starting on his second semester of his freshman year at UC Berkeley majoring in math and was truly loving it.”

The household is well known in Silicon Valley. Susan Wojcicki rented her garage in Menlo Park to Google’s founders—Larry Web page and Sergey Brin—in 1998, when she was a advertising and marketing supervisor at Intel. She went on to work for a few years at Google, together with as the top of YouTube, a job she stepped down from final 12 months. 

Anne Wojcicki, Susan’s sister, is the cofounder and CEO of the private genomics agency 23andMe, and was beforehand married to Brin.

Esther Wojcicki wrote a 2019 book entitled The best way to Increase Profitable Folks and, as a journalism instructor, mentored Lisa Brennan-Jobs, daughter of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.

Troper’s grandfather, the late Stanley Wojcicki, was chairman of Stanford’s physics division. He died last year.

“Marco’s life was cut too short,” Esther Wojcicki wrote in her Fb put up. “And we are all devastated, thinking about all the opportunities and life experiences that he will miss and we will miss together. Marco, we all love you and miss you more than you will ever know.”

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