Recode Decode: Anne Wojcicki, CEO, 23andMe

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Kara Swisher talks with 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki about why the personal genomics company's mission is unchanged after a battle with the FDA. Wojcicki argues that understanding one's own genetic traits is part of a broader trend of consumers taking control of their health. She also discusses being a famous female tech executive, what she thinks of 23andMe's embattled peer Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos and why she doesn't read her own press (especially when it is about her relationship with New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.4	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode, hosted by Cara Swisher, powered by Digital Media.
0:35.3	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:39.2	You may know me from all those paparazzi photos with me and my new boyfriend, David Ortiz,
0:43.8	but in my spare time I talk tech.
0:46.0	And you're listening to Recode Decode, a podcast about tech and media's key players, big
0:50.4	ideas, and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:53.4	You can subscribe at recode-decode at iTunes.com slash recode-decode.
0:57.6	And while you're there, leave us a review.
0:59.7	Today in the red chair is Anne Wajiski, the CEO of Personal Genomics Company 23 and
1:05.6	me, and someone I've known for a very long time.
1:08.2	Anne co-founded 23 and me in 2006, and she's part of a fantastic Silicon Valley family.
1:14.3	Their mother's a journal's a professor, their father's a physicist.
1:17.3	Her sister is the CEO of YouTube, and her other sister is an epidemiologist.
1:21.5	It's a very low achieving family.
1:24.1	For the past decade, 23 and me has offered consumers the ability to send in their saliva
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