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Anne Wojcicki, chief executive officer of 23andMe. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group—Getty Images) Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe, the struggling DNA testing company , doesn’t think this is ...
Anne Wojcicki wanted to run things—alone. It was 2009 and her startup 23andMe was riding high, fueled by a steady stream of venture money, intriguing personal accounts of genome exploration, and ...
23andMe's board resigned over a "distracting difference of view" with cofounder Anne Wojcicki. The board rejected an earlier proposal by Wojcicki to take the company private.
Anne E. Wojcicki (/ w uː ˈ tʃ ɪ t s k i / woo-CHITS-kee; [2] born July 28, 1973) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe. She founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza.
23andMe Holding Co. is an American personal genomics and biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California. [1] It is best known for providing a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service in which customers provide a saliva sample that is laboratory analysed, using single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping, [2] to generate reports relating to the customer's ancestry and genetic ...
Wojcicki added that 23andMe would immediately be identifying independent directors to join the board. Wojcicki, who holds 49% of the voting power at 23andMe, was the only remaining board member ...
Janet Wojcicki, assistant professor of pediatrics at UCSF. [11] Anne Wojcicki, founder and CEO of the genetic testing company 23andMe [11] In 2010, his daughter Anne and her then-husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, endowed a $2.5 million chair in experimental physics at Stanford in her father's name. [7] Wojcicki was a Catholic. [14]
Following a monthslong battle over CEO Anne Wojcicki’s plans to take 23andMe private, all seven independent members of its board resigned en masse Tuesday.. The move is almost certainly the ...