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Anne Wojcicki

Co-Founder & CEO, 23andMe · 1 appearance on the record, plus 1 compilation re-air.

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In 2006, Wojcicki co-founded 23andMe, pioneering direct-to-consumer genetic testing to help individuals access their ancestry and health data. Prior to that, she spent a decade on Wall Street investing in healthcare and biotechnology companies.

12statements → 1claims → 1claims resolved → 4.17/5average certainty → 2.42/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 4said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources

1 assertion · 3 opinions · 4 insights · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Anne argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Wojcicki: 23andMe proved to FDA consumers don't need physician intermediaries
“And what I'm like really proud of with 23 me is that we proved out to the FDA that people are capable of getting their genetic information without having to have a physician or healthcare professional intermediary.”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 36:33 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards

How they sound: speaking style how? →

248 words/min while actually speaking · 0.2 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Anne Wojcicki: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews. Their coarse estimate from 28 exchanges on the produced feed is ≈4.0/5, shown at half point precision because the sample is small and produced tape scores higher.

Measured by listening to 6,530 words across 1 episode, but every recording we have of Anne Wojcicki is the aired feed, and an editor cleaned that audio before release. Some of the hesitation was cut before we ever heard it, so read these as floors: the true rates are at least this high. These are measurements of speaking style, not scores. How it's measured →

How the interview went all their pushback → series average →

Across 2 rated episodes:

host pushback ▾ 2/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 3/10
setup questions received 75%

Everything Anne Wojcicki said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Wojcicki: Healthcare Margin Expansion Drives Patient Mistreatment
“This is what margin expansion looks like. Like the mistreatment of my grandmother is at the cost of your margin expansion.”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 4:36 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Assertion Supported
Wojcicki: 23andMe proved to FDA consumers don't need physician intermediaries
“And what I'm like really proud of with 23 me is that we proved out to the FDA that people are capable of getting their genetic information without having to have a physician or healthcare professional intermediary.”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 36:33 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Insight
Wojcicki: Healthcare Sector Incentivizes Managing Sickness Over Promoting Health
“The business of healthcare is not necessarily about you. It's a great area to invest in. There's all kinds of ways you can make money. You know, you can do all kinds of amazing discount cash flows on dialysis and like, think about like, oh, you know, all these…”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 4:42 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Insight
Wojcicki: Hiring external senior executives is culturally difficult in complex companies
“Bringing in very senior people, depending on the type of role, it can be really hard culturally because like they come and they want to make a mark for themselves and they want to guide it in a slightly different way. And 23 weeks, it's complicated company. We…”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 18:28 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Opinion
Wojcicki: Early-Stage Private Company Boards Are Not Useful
“Boards at that stage are not Useful and helpful. They get lots of advisors. Like it's not like people sometimes have this misperception of like how valuable a board can be and like how much influence they can have.”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 22:39 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Opinion
Wojcicki: The Healthcare System Treats Patients as Incompetent at Self-Care
“Like one, the healthcare world really looks at you as being totally incompetent at taking care of yourself. Like most doctors don't believe you're capable of change.”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 36:21 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Insight
Wojcicki: Changing Healthcare Requires Empowering Consumers directly
“If you really want to change healthcare, in some ways you have to give power to the people, like get them to rise up.”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 5:49 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Disclosure
Anne Wojcicki: Prominence Makes People Less Direct and Honest With Founders
“If I think back on the last 15 years, the thing that has been the hardest for me is having people be less honest and less direct. Like, you hear this about, and I saw this as with the rise of Google, and, like, people started just coming up, they wanted to jus…”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 7:58 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Disclosure
Wojcicki: High-profile founders pay a 20% 'Google tax' on personal projects
“If I'm doing a landscaping project, we always assign what we call, like, there's always a Google tax. Like, you just assume that I will have to pay 20% more than, like, what any normal person, like, so there's just a tax that comes with it.”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 8:38 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Insight
Wojcicki: Board Meetings Should Debate Key Questions, Not Show Off
“Your board is really busy and it's not a dog and pony show and you should tee up like, what are your top questions for them? And then have the debate around that.”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 24:41 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Disclosure
Wojcicki: 23andMe twice attempted and abandoned building an internal lab
“We started building a lab twice and shut it down twice.”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 17:10 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards
Disclosure
23andMe Advertised on a Zeppelin Backed by Ex-Husband Sergey Brin
“We did do the blimp. We did. 23 and me had, there was a Zeppelin. Back in, my ex-husband had a Zeppelin, or he was an investor in a Zeppelin. Anyways, it had, like, a big 23 me on it.”
Anne Wojcicki Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 31:55 20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationships, Leadership Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg and Reflections on How The Best Founders Manage Their Boards

The other half of the tape: Anne Wojcicki's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 1 episode on 20VC. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harl compilation May 4, 2022 2m
20VC: 23andMe's Anne Wojcicki on How To Approach Trust in Business and Personal Relationsh Jan 24, 2022 27m
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