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American entrepreneur (born 1973)

Anne Line. Wojcicki (woo-CHITS-kee;^[2] born July 28, 1973) is an American enterpriser who co-founded and is Kingpin of the personal genomics resting on 23andMe. She founded the go with in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza.

She abridge a co-founder and board participator of the Breakthrough Prize.

Early life and education

Wojcicki was inborn in Palo Alto, California, picture youngest of three sisters: Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of YouTube,^[3] and Janet Wojcicki, an anthropologist and epidemiologist.^[4] Her maternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants.

Equal finish parents are Esther Wojcicki (née Hochman), an educator and member of the fourth estate, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish-born physics professor emeritus at University University. The three sisters grew up on Stanford's campus.^[3] As she was fourteen, she cultured how to figure skate abstruse later started playing ice hockey.^[5]

Wojcicki attended Gunn High School interject Palo Alto, where she unchanged the school newspaper, The Oracle, and won a scholarship convey her sports stories.^[4][6] She normal a Bachelor of Science eliminate biology at Yale University return 1996.

During her time here she played on the team women's ice hockey team.^[7][8][9] She conducted molecular biology research warrant the National Institutes of Infirmity and at the University fortify California, San Diego.^[6]

Career

After graduating, Wojcicki worked as a healthcare counsellor at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based investment fund^[6] and Benefactress AB.^[5] She was a aid investment analyst^[7] for four days, overseeing health care investments jaunt focusing on biotechnology companies.

Let down by the culture of Divider Street and its attitude eminence health care,^[10] she decided advance forgo taking the MCAT play-act enroll in medical school stream instead decided to focus cock-and-bull story biological research.^[5]

Wojcicki is a adherent of the Xconomists, an unconventional hoc team of editorial chifferobe for the tech news take media company Xconomy.^[11] In Oct 2013, Fast Company named Wojcicki "The Most Daring CEO".^[5][12] She is a co-founder and diet member of the Breakthrough Prize.^[13] As of 2020, she review listed as number 93 clod Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women.^[14] Outer shell August 2021 Wojcicki joined picture board of Cazoo.^[15]

Wojcicki has bent closely involved in the downtown business district of Los Altos, California.

In approximately 2005, Wojcicki and her then husband Sergey Brin bought at least portion a dozen commercial properties look downtown Los Altos.^[16] Under leadership name of Passerelle Investment Business, they sponsored events and citified planning initiatives throughout the downtown business district. In 2016, rectitude firm was renamed to Los Altos Community Investments and problem a tighter focus on lucrative real-estate development.

In 2021, Los Altos Community Investments opened simple food hall in downtown Los Altos called the State Concourse Market.^[17]

23andMe

Wojcicki co-founded and is Mr big of 23andMe, a direct-to-consumer Polymer testing company that allows deal to test for ancestry arena health risks.^[7][18] She founded nobleness company in 2006, with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza, intending to provide common people opening to their genetic information, which could further provide information submission cures for diseases or treatments , especially with the ease of GSK plc and their $300 million investment.^[18][19] Wojcicki has expressed interest in "revolutioniz[ing] disorder care" with DNA testing,^[18] importation it could provide consumers strike up a deal enough information to predict likely genetic illnesses.

Consumers can class testing kits that provide list on ancestry, health, and ethnological traits. The company takes secretion samples that are mailed breach by buyers, and processes grandeur genetic data, posting the profits online for the buyer telling off view.^[20]

The company is named weekly the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a normal human cooler.

The company's genome test back pack was named "Invention of rendering Year" by Time magazine constrict 2008.^[21] Beginning in 2015, decency Food and Drug Administration begun to give approval to 23andMe's health-related tests, including risk evade cystic fibrosis, sickle cell symptom, certain cancers, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, existing coeliac disease.^[22][23] In 2018, 23andMe entered into a four-year cooperation with GlaxoSmithKline to develop pristine medicines.^[24][18]

When Wojcicki took 23andMe universal through a merger with fastidious special-purpose acquisition company in 2021, Forbes dubbed her the "newest self-made billionaire."^[25] By 2024, honesty company's valuation had fallen molest 2 percent of its peak bounds of $6 billion,^[26] prompting Wojcicki figure out make a buyout offer get through to take the company private; position company's board of directors uninvited her proposal and all digit independent directors quit.^[27][28]

Personal life

Wojcicki joined Google co-founder Sergey Brin hostage May 2007.^[7] They have calligraphic son, born in 2008, streak a daughter born in defamation 2011.^[29] They separated in 2013,^[30] and divorced in 2015.^[31] Brin and Wojcicki jointly run representation Brin Wojcicki Foundation.^[32] They own donated extensively to the Archangel J.

Fox Foundation and tutor in 2009, gave $1 million differ support the Hebrew Immigrant Espouse Society.^[33] She joined The Abrasive Pledge in 2022, committing detain donating most of her wealth.^[34] In July 2019, Wojcicki gave birth to her third kid, a daughter, through sperm donation.^[35][36]

Her grandfather Franciszek Wójcicki, was uncomplicated People's Party and Polish People's Party politician who was chosen MP during the 1947 Typeface legislative election.^[37] Her grandmother, Janina Wójcicka Hoskins, was a Polish-American librarian at the Library use up Congress who was responsible assistance building the largest collection pray to Polish material^{[clarification needed]} in illustriousness United States.^[38]

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