I'm surprised by the negative tone of this comment thread. I thought she had a lot of interesting things to say, both about health care as a business and about starting a startup.
Very uninspiring story.<p>- Successful parents from NYC that have their own Wikipedia page.<p>- Worked on Wall Street.<p>- Educated at Yale.<p>The list goes on.....<p>How many people can relate to that much privilege?
>I’ll always love people debating “Is it in your genes or is it your environment?” I’m like no! The whole beauty of it is that it’s both.<p>It would be fun hearing a debate between Anne and Susan about this.
I can't believe what she says : can one non-doctor person be in charge of its cancer treatment (she says "be in control" in the 6 first minutes) ? Last time I read about immune system/genetics it was super complex and required a ton of background. I would definitely not want to be in control on my treatment. The best I can do is double check some facts on a few forums, have a general feeling about who takes care of me but one has to admit that's not very useful (at best it reassures me on false ideas).<p>Also she uses the term "consumer" in place of "patient" several times. That seems wrong to me.
Is this a poor and cringe way of admitting Y is onboard the United Nation's Agenda 2030 program? [1]<p>Will the next interview be about partnering with World Government Summit? [2]<p>We had people in Europe trying this for a very long time - didn't end well (never does)..<p>[1]: <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld" rel="nofollow">https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingo...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org/partners" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org/partners</a>
There are a whole bunch of private videos in the playlist for "How to Build the Future" series. Why? Is it that the videos are just not ready yet?
Sometimes, for people like me it's hard to keep track of who's who in tech royalty.<p>Here's a guide of some of their connections. (My first honest reaction: it does seem fairly incestuous. And then I'm not even getting into.. well, let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. All of the people mentioned here belong to one particular subgroup in the US. It just feels odd to me. Diversity hasn't reached these levels yet, I guess.)<p>Anne Wojcicki: CEO of 23andMe. Former part-time partner of Y Combinator, back then along with Ben Silbermann, co-founder and CEO of Pinterest; and Joe Gebbia, co-founder and chief product officer of Airbnb: <a href="https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/09/y-combinator-announces-3-new-part-time-partners.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/09/y...</a><p>Sergey Brin: co-founder of Google and formerly married to Anne.<p>Susan Wojcicki: Anne's sister, and CEO of Youtube, owned by Google.<p>Sam Altman: President of Y Combinator