Anne Wojcicki

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description: American biotech analyst, biologist, businesswoman, and co-founder of 23andMe

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Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination

by Mark Bergen  · 5 Sep 2022  · 642pp  · 141,888 words

dorky headgear Google pitched as the future of computing. The staffer also happened to be dating an executive at Google’s Android division. Brin and Anne Wojcicki went public with their split in August 2013, noting, through a publicist, that they “remain good friends and partners.” Anne absconded to Fiji with girlfriends

book on parenting: Wojcicki, How to Raise Successful People, 138. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT another magazine named her: Elizabeth Murphy, “Inside 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki’s $99 DNA Revolution,” Fast Company, October 14, 2013, https://www.fastcompany.com/3018598/for-99-this-ceo-can-tell-you-what-might-kill-you

-inside-23andme-founder-anne-wojcickis-dna-r. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT a San Jose newspaper: Mike Swift, “Susan Wojcicki: The Most Important Googler You’ve Never Heard Of

denied saying this. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT went public with their split: Liz Gannes, “Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and 23andMe Co-Founder Anne Wojcicki Have Split,” All Things D, August 28, 2013, https://allthingsd.com/20130828/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-and-23andme-co-founder

-anne-wojcicki-have-split/. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Brin went to Burning Man: Vanessa Grigoriadis, “O.K., Glass: Make Google Eyes,” Vanity Fair, March 12,

2014, https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2014/04/sergey-brin-amanda-rosenberg-affair. After separating in 2013, Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki divorced in 2015. A YouTube representative said the company could not confirm Brin’s attendance at Burning Man. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT said

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta  · 1 Jan 2009  · 532pp  · 139,706 words

gifts and money, and I was never comfortable with that.” When he was married on an island in the Bahamas in May of 2007 to Anne Wojcicki, cofounder of 23andMe, a genetics research company, the couple stood in bathing suits under a chuppah, the traditional Jewish wedding canopy, but no rabbi officiated

always on trial with Larry. He always pushes you.” While Brin is more approachable than Page, he, too, can be awkward around strangers. His wife Anne Wojcicki’s company, 23andMe, was feted at a fashionable cocktail party in September 2008 that was cohosted by Diane von Furstenberg and her husband, Barry Diller

married Lucy Southworth, a former model who earned her Ph.D. in bioinformatics in January 2009 from Stanford; they married seven months after Brin wed Anne Wojcicki. But Sheryl Sandberg was worried. She had held a ranking job in the Clinton administration before, joining Google in 2001, where she supervised all online

audience for about ten minutes with a precise, impersonal account of his mother’s recent diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. He explained that his wife, Anne Wojcicki, had cofounded 23andMe to study genetics, including the genetics of Parkinson’s. He said the evidence of a genetic link to Parkinson’s was at

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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy  · 12 Apr 2011  · 666pp  · 181,495 words

when she’d heard Larry and Sergey’s dreams time and again, she quit Intel to join Google herself. Eventually Sergey began dating her sister. (Anne Wojcicki and Sergey would marry in 2007.) In early 1999, Google moved to its new office space on University Place in Palo Alto, over the bicycle

had grown in the decade since they founded Google. Both were now married and within a year of each other fathered sons. Brin’s wife, Anne Wojcicki, was a cofounder of 23andMe, a company involved in personal DNA analysis. Brin defied corporate propriety when he shifted his personal investment in the firm

The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands

by Eric Topol  · 6 Jan 2015  · 588pp  · 131,025 words

these. The Angelina Effect and Consumer Genomics On the same morning as Jolie’s op-ed, the CEO and cofounder of the consumer genomics company, Anne Wojcicki, had e-mails, texts, and calls pouring into her office. She said, “Angelina Jolie talking about a technical subject and saying, ‘I did this, you

article of the November 2013 issue (which was published in October, well in advance of the FDA letter to 23andMe) of Fast Company called out Anne Wojcicki as “The Most Daring CEO in America” and asked, “Why Are Doctors, Insurers and Privacy Wonks Having a Heart Attack?”33 It should have included

.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/health/in-israel-a-push-to-screen-for-cancer-gene-leaves-many-conflicted.html. 33. E. Murphy, “Inside 23andMe Founder Anne Wojcicki’s $99 DNA Revolution,” Fast Company, October 14, 2013: http://www.fastcompany.com/3018598/for-99-this-ceo-can-tell-you-what-might-kill-you

-inside-23andme-founder-anne-wojcickis-dna-r. 34. FDA, “Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations: Warning Letter to Ann Wojcicki,” November 22, 2013, http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2013/ucm376296.htm. 35. A. Pollack, “FDA Orders

. Kiss, “23andMe Admits FDA Order ‘Significantly Slowed Up’ New Customers,” The Guardian, March 9, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/09/google-23andme-anne-wojcicki-genetics-healthcare-dna/print. 60. A. Krol, “Show, Don’t Tell: 23andMe Pursues Health Research in the Shadow of the FDA,” Bio-IT World, March

of Law, November 27, 2013: http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/2013/11/t.php. 82. A. Wolfe, “Anne Wojcicki’s Quest for Better Health Care,” Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2014, http://online.wsj.com/articles/anne-wojcickis-quest-for-better-health-care-1403892088. 83. C. Bloss, N. Schork, and E. Topol, “Effect of

Page Gets Disruptive with the Masses,” San Francisco Business Times, October 22, 2013, http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/biotech/2013/10/23andme-andy-page-anne-wojcicki.html?page=all. 86. N. Fliesler, “Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A Case of Potential Harm,” Boston Children’s Hospital science and clinical innovation blog

I Hate the Internet: A Novel

by Jarett Kobek  · 3 Nov 2016  · 302pp  · 74,350 words

let’s not get into his complicated romantic life, the servicing of which required a fuckpad on Manhattan island. Susan Wojcicki was the sister of Anne Wojcicki, the wife of Sergey Brin, and she was the Senior Vice President of Advertising. She was like Demeter, the goddess of the harvest and the

much captivated,” said Adeline, “by news of Sergey Brin’s affair.” Sergey Brin was one of the co-founders of Google. He was married to Anne Wojcicki. Over the summer, news had broken that Sergey Brin was having an affair with an underling at Google X. Google X was an experimental lab

Free Ride

by Robert Levine  · 25 Oct 2011  · 465pp  · 109,653 words

the gift is a pledge to be fulfilled over the course of several years.) In 2009 the company’s cofounder Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, donated $500,000—more than a fifth of the money contributed that year. It was something of a family gift, since Wojcicki’s mother, Esther

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The Industries of the Future

by Alec Ross  · 2 Feb 2016  · 364pp  · 99,897 words

out of proportion to the risk.” Vogelstein and Diaz’s concerns were brought to the surface recently by the genomic testing company 23andMe. Founded by Anne Wojcicki at age 32 in 2006, the company provides ancestry-related genetic reports and uninterpreted raw genetic data for its clients. You spit in a tube

/down-syndrome/basics/tests-diagnosis/con-20020948. Bert Vogelstein and Luis Diaz are concerned: Bert Vogelstein, interview with Teal Pennebaker, December 9, 2013. Founded by Anne Wojcicki: Katie Hafner, “Silicon Valley Wide-Eyed over a Bride,” New York Times, May 29, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/technology/29google.html

: Elizabeth Murphy, “Do You Want to Know What Will Kill You?” Salon, October 25, 2013, http://www.salon.com/2013/10/25/inside_23andme_founder_anne_wojcickis_99_dna_revolution_newscred/. all of them have faced: Kira Peikoff, “I Had My DNA Picture Taken, with Varying Results,” New York Times, December 30

Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths From the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

by Reid Hoffman, June Cohen and Deron Triff  · 14 Oct 2021  · 309pp  · 96,168 words

than $2.5 billion in venture funding. * * * — While Daniel Ek needed to establish trust with an old-school industry that viewed him as a threat, Anne Wojcicki, founder of the DNA testing and analysis company 23andMe, faced even more formidable hurdles as she launched her business. She had to take on both

active and smarter investors. Payal Kadakia of ClassPass built her business around the vision of helping people become more active and find their fitness passion. Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe started her genetic testing business with the goal of empowering people to gain more control of their healthcare information. And Charles Best launched

Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

by Yasha Levine  · 6 Feb 2018  · 474pp  · 130,575 words

In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin moved into the garage of a house owned by Susan Wojcicki, the sister of Brin’s future wife, Anne Wojcicki. They had an initial $100,000 check from Andy Bechtolsheim, the cofounder of Sun Microsystems, a powerful computer company that itself had come out of

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

by Bill McKibben  · 15 Apr 2019

around the starting gate, many of them true heavy hitters from Silicon Valley. The best-known “consumer-facing” genetics company is probably 23andMe, founded by Anne Wojcicki. Anne’s father, Stanley, was the chair of Stanford’s physics department in the late 1990s; he had a couple of students, Sergey Brin and

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Uncharted: How to Map the Future

by Margaret Heffernan  · 20 Feb 2020  · 335pp  · 97,468 words

The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture

by Scott Belsky  · 1 Oct 2018  · 425pp  · 112,220 words

Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing

by Kevin Davies  · 5 Oct 2020  · 741pp  · 164,057 words

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

by Walter Isaacson  · 9 Mar 2021  · 700pp  · 160,604 words

100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family And

by Sonia Arrison  · 22 Aug 2011  · 381pp  · 78,467 words

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier  · 2 Mar 2015  · 598pp  · 134,339 words

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 1 Mar 2015  · 479pp  · 144,453 words

Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

by Ali Tamaseb  · 14 Sep 2021  · 251pp  · 80,831 words

What Would Google Do?

by Jeff Jarvis  · 15 Feb 2009  · 299pp  · 91,839 words

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz  · 8 Mar 2016  · 233pp  · 58,561 words

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

by Michael Specter  · 14 Apr 2009  · 281pp  · 79,958 words

Money: Vintage Minis

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 5 Apr 2018  · 97pp  · 31,550 words

The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality

by Blake J. Harris  · 19 Feb 2019  · 561pp  · 163,916 words

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words