Susan Wojcicki was the quietest of her sisters, her mother said earlier

“Susan was the quietest,” Wojcicki told CNN in May. “He was very easy to take care of, baby and baby. It’s as if she was born rational. And I thought it was so great that I was like, “Oh, I’m going to have another one.”

Then came Janet, whose number one goal as a child was to beat Susan, Esther said, and then Anne.

Janet is now a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and Anne is the founder and CEO of genetic testing company 23andMe.

Longtime educator at Palo Alto High School and author of the 2019 book How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Resultsthe family matriarch said her goal as a mother was to empower her daughters and teach them that they could handle any situation they found themselves in.

Although they did not become student body presidents, they were still independent thinkers and leaders in other ways.

“They weren’t afraid to take a stand, which is what we were hoping for,” she told CNN.

When asked what the secret to successful parenting was, Esther said she didn’t have a specific parenting style, but was more collaborative and took her children’s opinions into account, such as what to make for dinner and how to make it .

“So they were responsible for a lot of choices and responsible for a lot of things,” she explained. “Everyone has little setbacks, but that’s okay. In fact, if you don’t fail, you don’t learn. The more you do for your children, the less empowered they are.”

In an interview with wealth in 2019, Esther reduced her parenting approach to the acronym TRICK, which stands for trust, respect, independence, collaboration and kindness.

She said executives can also learn from TRICK and pointed out that Susan’s former company gives employees a sense of freedom with a policy that allows them to do whatever they want 20% of the time.

“Google has proven to be one of the most creative companies on the planet,” said Esther.

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