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Anne Wojcicki

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2016-04-04

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2016-04-04

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1. “About that. Well, I think one of the things people don't realize is that healthcare is an unusual model because it's not consumer. So like Target, you go to any kind of consumer company, Target sells to you, Walmart sells to you. You know, if you sign up for gym memberships between you and that club. But in healthcare, you don't pay the bill.”

   2016-04-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Anne Wojcicki, CEO, 23andMe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “I was investing for about 10 years in healthcare companies and everything from birth to death but focused mostly on biotech companies. And the idea for 23Me really came out of that experience where I loved healthcare. I love the research. I love spending time in hospitals. But once I understood how the system works and actually how the system is making money and the type of care and the fact that you as the individual don't actually get to make a lot of the decisions about your own care and that there's this entire world above you that's making decisions for you, I realize that when genetics was potentially accessible, that we should actually start a change where it becomes about you, the individual getting access to your own data and not waiting for the system as is to actually give you that information.”

   2016-04-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Anne Wojcicki, CEO, 23andMe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “Then you want to videotape it. You stuck it in your face. You did stick at my person. I was first with that stuff, dude. You were. It was a little awful. Disconcerting.”

   2016-04-04 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Anne Wojcicki, CEO, 23andMe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT