Susan Wojcicki Named to Planet’s Board of Directors

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Planet Labs PBC&comma; a provider of daily data and insights about Earth&comma; announced former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has been appointed to Planet’s Board of Directors&period; With over two decades of leadership experience in the technology industry helping to scale disruptive companies&comma; Planet believes Ms&period; Wojcicki is uniquely positioned to support the Company’s continued growth and scalability across markets as an independent director&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Susan was voted in at Planet’s Annual General Meeting on July 11&period; This is the company’s second board addition since going public in December 2021&comma; following <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cts&period;businesswire&period;com&sol;ct&sol;CT&quest;id&equals;smartlink&amp&semi;url&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Finvestors&period;planet&period;com&percnt;2Fnews&percnt;2Fnews-details&percnt;2F2022&percnt;2FPlanet-Announces-Board-Expansion-with-Addition-of-Kristen-Robinson&percnt;2Fdefault&period;aspx&amp&semi;esheet&equals;54094589&amp&semi;newsitemid&equals;20240715477219&amp&semi;lan&equals;en-US&amp&semi;anchor&equals;Kristen&plus;Robinson&percnt;26&percnt;238217&percnt;3Bs&plus;appointment&amp&semi;index&equals;2&amp&semi;md5&equals;b5eb95b6488373ed442a8430850e3c71" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" shape&equals;"rect">Kristen Robinson’s appointment<&sol;a> in November 2022&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Susan has an incredibly impressive career scaling technology companies&comma;” said Will Marshall&comma; co-founder and CEO of Planet&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Planet has huge ambition&comma; which we’ve only tapped a small fraction of to date&comma; so Susan’s experience will help us in both strategy and tactics as we grow and scale Planet’s business&period; I look forward to working together&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is an exciting time for Planet’s business&period; With the launch of the Tanager and Pelican satellites this year&comma; growth of AI capabilities&comma; and rollout of the recent Planet Insights Platform&comma; Planet is on the edge of scaling in a big way&comma;” said Susan Wojcicki&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I look forward to advising the Company to further scale the adoption of these solutions&comma; to achieve their mission of making global change visible&comma; accessible and actionable for organizations around the world&comma; all towards the tremendous impact I know the company can have&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms&period; Wojcicki served as the Chief Executive Officer of Alphabet subsidiary&comma; YouTube&comma; a digital video platform&comma; from 2014-2023 where she oversaw the release of YouTube’s most influential products and grew the platform to over 2 billion users&period; Prior to leading YouTube&comma; Ms&period; Wojcicki held various positions in marketing and product development at Google before serving as Senior Vice President of Advertising &amp&semi; Commerce&comma; helping to define the vision and direction of Google&&num;8217&semi;s monetization platform&period; Before Google&comma; Ms&period; Wojcicki worked at Intel Corporation and served as a management consultant at consulting firms Bain &amp&semi; Company and R&period;B&period; Webber &amp&semi; Company&period; Ms&period; Wojcicki graduated with honors from Harvard University and received an M&period;S&period; in Economics from University of California&comma; Santa Cruz&comma; and an M&period;B&period;A&period; from UCLA&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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