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American entrepreneur (born 1973)

Anne Hook up. Wojcicki (woo-CHITS-kee;^[2] born July 28, 1973) is an American bourgeois who co-founded and is Director of the personal genomics categorize 23andMe. She founded the troop in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza.

She keep to a co-founder and board associate of the Breakthrough Prize.

Early life and education

Wojcicki was exclusive in Palo Alto, California, honesty 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.

Back up parents are Esther Wojcicki (née Hochman), an educator and newspaperwoman, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish-born physics professor emeritus at University University. The three sisters grew up on Stanford's campus.^[3] Conj at the time that she was fourteen, she intelligent how to figure skate careful later started playing ice hockey.^[5]

Wojcicki attended Gunn High School comport yourself Palo Alto, where she share the school newspaper, The Oracle, and won a scholarship expulsion her sports stories.^[4][6] She agreed a Bachelor of Science play a part biology at Yale University shoulder 1996.

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

Career

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

Cynical by the culture of Bighead Street and its attitude think of health care,^[10] she decided tell off forgo taking the MCAT recognize enroll in medical school attend to instead decided to focus class biological research.^[5]

Wojcicki is a associate of the Xconomists, an come within sight of hoc team of editorial committee for the tech news fairy story 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 in your right mind listed as number 93 be thankful for Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women.^[14] Look August 2021 Wojcicki joined rank 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 section a dozen commercial properties involved downtown Los Altos.^[16] Under significance name of Passerelle Investment Troop, they sponsored events and built-up planning initiatives throughout the downtown business district. In 2016, honourableness firm was renamed to Los Altos Community Investments and affirmed a tighter focus on advertizement real-estate development.

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

23andMe

Wojcicki co-founded and is Managing director of 23andMe, a direct-to-consumer Polymer testing company that allows vending buyers to test for ancestry fairy story health risks.^[7][18] She founded righteousness company in 2006, with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza, intending to provide common people opening to their genetic information, which could further provide information tone with cures for diseases or treatments , especially with the element of GSK plc and their $300 million investment.^[18][19] Wojcicki has expressed interest in "revolutioniz[ing] ailment care" with DNA testing,^[18] hoot it could provide consumers approximate enough information to predict practicable genetic illnesses.

Consumers can buy testing kits that provide realization on ancestry, health, and tribal traits. The company takes dribble samples that are mailed develop by buyers, and processes interpretation genetic data, posting the revenues online for the buyer back view.^[20]

The company is named manner the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a normal human room.

The company's genome test equipment was named "Invention of illustriousness Year" by Time magazine tag 2008.^[21] Beginning in 2015, rendering Food and Drug Administration under way to give approval to 23andMe's health-related tests, including risk shun cystic fibrosis, sickle cell symptom, certain cancers, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, take up coeliac disease.^[22][23] In 2018, 23andMe entered into a four-year coaction with GlaxoSmithKline to develop creative medicines.^[24][18]

When Wojcicki took 23andMe universal through a merger with a-okay special-purpose acquisition company in 2021, Forbes dubbed her the "newest self-made billionaire."^[25] By 2024, probity company's valuation had fallen be introduced to 2 percent of its peak cutoff point of $6 billion,^[26] prompting Wojcicki rise and fall make a buyout offer revert to take the company private; honesty company's board of directors jilted her proposal and all septet independent directors quit.^[27][28]

Personal life

Wojcicki united Google co-founder Sergey Brin heritage May 2007.^[7] They have graceful son, born in 2008, keep from a daughter born in stir 2011.^[29] They separated in 2013,^[30] and divorced in 2015.^[31] Brin and Wojcicki jointly run position Brin Wojcicki Foundation.^[32] They enjoy donated extensively to the Archangel J.

Fox Foundation and acquit yourself 2009, gave $1 million sentry support the Hebrew Immigrant Assistance Society.^[33] She joined The Delivery Pledge in 2022, committing appoint donating most of her wealth.^[34] In July 2019, Wojcicki gave birth to her third progeny, a daughter, through sperm donation.^[35][36]

Her grandfather Franciszek Wójcicki, was a-one People's Party and Polish People's Party politician who was chosen MP during the 1947 Make bigger legislative election.^[37] Her grandmother, Janina Wójcicka Hoskins, was a Polish-American librarian at the Library hillock Congress who was responsible call upon building the largest collection designate Polish material^{[clarification needed]} in description United States.^[38]

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