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Person.png Anne Wojcicki   TwitterRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
( businesswoman)
Anne Wojcicki.jpg
BornJuly 28, 1973
Nationality US
Alma mater Yale University
Parents •  Esther Wojcicki
•  Stanley Wojcicki
SpouseSergey Brin cropped.jpg Sergey Brin
Member ofEdge Foundation
Interests • Digital healtcare.jpg digital healthcare
•  personalized medicine
• Big pharma.jpg Big Pharma
Relatives • Susan Wojcicki.png Susan Wojcicki
•  Janet Wojcicki
Businesswoman with big stake in "the Google of gene-based medicine". Also ex-wife of Google-founder Sergey Brin, and sister of Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Anne E. Wojcicki is an American businesswoman who was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin (divorced 2015) and was sister of Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Anne co-founded and serves as CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe, selling home tests. The FDA from selling it as a medical device in 2013, but the company reorganized and received a partial approval in 2015.

The 23andMe home testing wasn't in any case primarily intended to be a medical device. The real business idea is to create a mechanism meant to be a front end for a massive information-gathering operation. “The long game here is not to make money selling kits, although the kits are essential to get the base level data,” Patrick Chung, a 23andMe board member admitted in 2013. “Once you have the data, [the company] does actually become the Google of personalized health care”.[1]

"The database creates a one-way portal into a world where corporations have access to the innermost contents of your cells and where insurers and pharmaceutical firms and marketers might know more about your body than you know yourself."[1]

GlaxoSmithKline invested $300 million in the company in 2018.

Background

Wojcicki was born in Palo Alto, California, and has two older sisters, Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube,[2] and Janet Wojcicki, a PhD anthropologist and epidemiologist.[3] Her parents are Esther Wojcicki (née Hochman), an educator who is Jewish, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish-born physics professor emeritus at Stanford University. The three sisters consequently grew up on the university's campus.[2]

Education

Wojcicki attended Gunn High School, in Palo Alto, California.[3][4]. She received a B.S. in biology at Yale University in 1996. During her time there she played on the varsity women's ice hockey team.[5][6][7] She has also conducted molecular biology research at the National Institutes of Health and at UC, San Diego.[4]

Career

After her graduation, Wojcicki worked as a health care consultant at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based investment fund[4] and at Investor AB.[8] She was a health care investment analyst[5] for 4 years, overseeing health care investments, focusing on biotechnology companies. Allegedly disillusioned by the culture of Wall Street and its attitude towards health care,[9] she quit in 2000, intending to take the MCAT and enroll in medical school. Instead, she decided to focus on research.[8]

Wojcicki is best known as the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe, a privately owned, direct to consumer DNA testing company, which allows for consumers to test for ancestry and health risks.[5][10] Anne founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza,[11] with the stated goal of solving the pain point that a majority of people do not have access to their genetic information, which could provide information on cures for diseases or treatments, especially with the help of Glaxo and their $300 million investment.[10] Anne has expressed interest in “revolutioniz[ing] health care” with DNA testing,[10] as it could provide consumers with sufficient enough information as to predict potential genetic illnesses.

The company is named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a normal human cell. The company's personal genome test kit was named "Invention of the Year" by Time magazine in 2008.[12]

In 2013 the Food and Drug Administration temporarily banned 23andMe from selling its health-related tests at all. Following the FDA’s ban in 2013, 23andMe spent the next two years devising genetic health tests that wouldn’t overpromise.[13]

From 2015, the FDA started to give approval to 23andMe's health-related tests, including risk from cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, certain cancers, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and coeliac disease.[14][15] In 2018, 23andMe entered into a four-year collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline to develop new medicines.[16][10]

Wojcicki is a member of the Xconomists, an ad hoc team of editorial advisors for the tech news and media company, Xconomy.[17] In October 2013, Fast Company named Wojcicki "The Most Daring CEO".[8][18] She is a co-founder and board member of the Breakthrough Prize.[19]

As of 2020, she is listed as number 93 in Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women.[20]

Personal life

Wojcicki married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in May 2007.[5] They have a son, Benji Wojin, born in December 2008, and a daughter, Chloe Wojin, born in late 2011.[21][22] The couple stopped living together in 2013,[23] and they divorced in 2015.[24]

Brin and Wojcicki, although divorced, still jointly run The Brin Wojcicki Foundation.[25] They have donated extensively to The Michael J. Fox Foundation and in 2009 gave $1 million to support the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.[26]

Wojcicki and Alex Rodriguez, the former baseball star, broke up in 2016 after dating for nearly a year.[27]

Her grandfather, Franciszek Wójcicki, was a People's Party and Polish People's Party politician who had been elected MP during the Polish legislative election, 1947.[28] Her grandmother, Janina Wójcicka Hoskins, was a Polish-American librarian at the Library of Congress who was responsible for building the largest collection of Polish material in the United States.[29]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/200522 February 200522 February 2005US
California
Monterey		Held in Monterey, California on February 22, 2005.
Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/20076 March 20076 March 2007US
California
Monterey		"like some kind of virtual-intellectual conspiracy-in-restraint-of-trade."
Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/200825 February 200825 February 2008US
California
Monterey		"The crowd was sprinkled generously with those who had amassed wealth beyond imagining in a historical eye blink."
Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/20111 March 20111 March 2011New York
US		Not all attendees were listed on the website, or they were scrubbed later. Jeffrey Epstein is not mentioned, but can be seen in the background of one of the pictures.
Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/201228 February 201228 February 2012USHeld on March 1, 2012.
Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/201326 February 201326 February 2013US
Edge Foundation/Billionaires' dinner/201518 March 201518 March 2015Canada
Vancouver		The Edge Foundation held its annual Billionaires' dinner in Vancouver, Canada.
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References

  1. ↑ Jump up to: a b https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/23andme-is-terrifying-but-not-for-the-reasons-the-fda-thinks/
  2. ↑ Jump up to: a b https://web.archive.org/web/20200103010613/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/how-the-wojcickis-parents-raised-23andme-founder-youtube-ceo.html
  3. ↑ Jump up to: a b https://web.archive.org/web/20141006072036/http://fortune.com/2012/02/01/before-google-the-wojcicki-girls-learned-from-mom/
  4. ↑ Jump up to: a b c https://web.archive.org/web/20141006090638/http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_5910106
  5. ↑ Jump up to: a b c d https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/technology/29google.html
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20141006101728/http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/m-track/2011-12/releases/20110804uw40s1
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121023132810/https://www.23andme.com/about/board/
  8. ↑ Jump up to: a b c https://web.archive.org/web/20141003144551/http://www.fastcompany.com/3018598/for-99-this-ceo-can-tell-you-what-might-kill-you-inside-23andme-founder-anne-wojcickis-dna-r
  9. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20141018024358/http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/23andme-co-founder-anne-wojcickis-washington-charm-offensive/2014/06/27/b465b086-f240-11e3-9ebc-2ee6f81ed217_story.html
  10. ↑ Jump up to: a b c d https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_137417
  11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121113132310/https://www.23andme.com/about/corporate/
  12. ↑ https://www.webcitation.org/66MEJiyIx?url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1852747_1854493,00.html
  13. ↑ https://gizmodo.com/consumer-dna-testing-may-be-the-biggest-health-scam-of-1839358522
  14. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46361764
  15. ↑ https://www.recode.net/2018/10/20/18002614/anne-wojcicki-23andme-dna-fake-science-goop-gwyneth-paltrow-kara-swisher-podcast-recode-decode
  16. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2018/07/25/23andme-gets-300-million-boost-from-glaxo-to-develop-new-drugs/
  17. ↑ https://www.xconomy.com/about/#The%20Xconomists
  18. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150129071904/https://twitter.com/23andMe/status/391666315657621504
  19. ↑ https://breakthroughprize.org/Board
  20. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/power-women/list/
  21. ↑ http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/liz-welch/the-way-i-work-anne-wojcicki-23andme.htm
  22. ↑ https://www.jewishtampa.com/jews-in-the-news/jews-in-the-news-diane-von-furstenburg-michael-kors-and-barbara-hershey
  23. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130907124312/http://allthingsd.com/20130828/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-and-23andme-co-founder-anne-wojcicki-have-split/
  24. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20150626134355/http://fortune.com/2015/06/24/google-sergey-brin-anne-wojcicki-divorce/
  25. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130926225622/http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990s/990search/ffindershow.cgi?id=RINF001
  26. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/25donate.html
  27. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/style/anne-wojcicki-23andme-genetics.html
  28. ↑ https://www.prezydent.pl/aktualnosci/wydarzenia/art,551,prezydent-spotkal-sie-z-prezes-youtube.html
  29. ↑ Zalewski, Wojciech (2011-10-01). "Janina Wójcicka Hoskins (1912–1996): Portrait of an Esteemed Librarian". Slavic & East European Information Resources. 12 (4): 224–236. doi:10.1080/15228886.2011.623117. ISSN 1522-8886


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