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Bad Blood: The Final Chapter

Introducing Infamous: A 3-part Story on 23andMe

Bad Blood: The Final Chapter

Sony Music

Society & Culture, News, True Crime

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Behind every infamous news story is a journalist trying to hold power to account. Join reporters Vanessa Grigoriadis and Gabriel Sherman as they take an in-depth look at the most explosive scandals of this century. From high-profile divorces to sex cults to the lies that started a war, they’ll guide you through the juiciest, most outrageous, celeb-filled stories of the last two decades, and give you a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to shine an unflattering light on the world’s most powerful people. A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, I'm here to tell you about Infamous, a show about American scandals.

0:06.1

One story we have going right now is about Sergei Bren, the founder of Google, and it's

0:11.0

about what happened when he found out he carried the gene for Parkinson's.

0:14.7

It's also about his wife Ann Wajewski, the founder of 23 and me, a genetic database

0:20.8

company that had something to do with Sergei finding out about this gene.

0:25.4

It was a combustible situation, and combust, it did.

0:30.3

You've got to listen to Infamous for the full story, but in this clip you'll be hearing

0:34.8

about how Ann started 23 and me in the first place.

0:39.6

So Ann and Sergei had a relatively equitable relationship, at least as much as is possible

0:45.8

between a billionaire tech guy and his low profile wife.

0:50.4

Ann made Ben Rebellius and make a bliss.

0:53.4

She was also pragmatic.

0:56.5

A source says she cut her own kid's hair because she thought it was a waste of money to do

1:01.6

it any other way.

1:04.0

She and Sergei were a major power couple, and she was becoming an investor.

1:08.4

I used to invest in healthcare companies, and healthcare is a really complicated industry,

1:13.6

and it's not necessarily always doing the right thing for the consumer.

1:17.1

And I used to always complain.

1:20.5

The last hedge fund I was at was a fund that we nicknamed Death Watch.

1:24.3

And we used to just short everything, because it's really easy to predict failures in

1:27.5

biotech, but it's hard to predict successes.

1:30.0

And so I was like kind of just like this really negative.

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