The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it’s just turbulence and not a crisis.
Anne Wojcicki
When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That’s OK.
Anne Wojcicki
Traditionally, when you talk to people who have Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, they’ll talk about how they’re in five or six studies, and they’ve been sequenced by each study. That’s just fat in the system. Just have a single data set that then you can share. You can make the entire system more efficient.
Anne Wojcicki
Big data is going to make us all healthier.
Anne Wojcicki
There’s going to be space travel at some point.
Anne Wojcicki
I want the world’s data accessible.
Anne Wojcicki
Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, ’23andMe saved my life.’
Anne Wojcicki
If I know I’m at genetically high risk of Alzheimer’s, maybe I don’t plan to retire at 80, and maybe I’m more proactive about where I’m going to live and who’s going to take care of me.
Anne Wojcicki
Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
Anne Wojcicki
Pharma companies don’t have a direct relationship with consumers, so they’re always subjects.
Anne Wojcicki
You can get so much value just from being genotyped.
Anne Wojcicki
The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.
Anne Wojcicki
People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.
Anne Wojcicki
When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.
Anne Wojcicki
There’s nothing more raw in life than when you’re sick.
Anne Wojcicki
My family and I were some of the first people to be genotyped.
Anne Wojcicki
People are used to dealing with risk.
Anne Wojcicki
You are not just about death and disease.
Anne Wojcicki
Most medications don’t work effectively for a lot people.
Anne Wojcicki
It’s crazy to me that in this world of electronic medical records Walmart has so much information about how we shop, but no one has that information about our health. Why can’t my doctor say, ‘Wow, Anne, based on your lifestyle and behavior, you’re five years from being diabetic.’ But I can go to Target, and they know exactly what I’m going to buy.
Anne Wojcicki
The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got – like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago.
Anne Wojcicki
Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It’s the hypothesis that there’s nothing sacred that can’t be changed.
Anne Wojcicki
There’s a beauty in being unrealistic.
Anne Wojcicki
I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.
Anne Wojcicki
You don’t do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.
Anne Wojcicki
I have mothers with small children come to me and say, ‘You found that I had early breast cancer – because of you, I don’t have cancer.’ You’ve just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.
Anne Wojcicki