Anne Wojcicki
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Anne Wojcicki reads as The Visionary because 23andMe was built on a conviction genuinely ahead of its time, that individuals should own and act on their own genetic data. She pushed into consumer genomics before regulators, markets, or the public fully understood it, absorbed an FDA enforcement action that would have ended most companies, and kept building toward personalised medicine as standard. Her leadership runs on sustained, evidence-backed belief in a future others cannot yet see.
“I personally believe there's no more interesting challenge than trying to understand the code of life. Twenty three is frankly the best positioned entity to solve what does the human genome mean and how can you apply it to individuals.”
“If I successfully keep you healthy to a hundred, you are not a profit center for the healthcare world. Genetic information's potential is not really adopted in primary care, in part because there's not an obvious monetization path.”
“I want to build out a true consumer empowered healthcare world, one that is outside of the existing system.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Anne Wojcicki”
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