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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.”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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: 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…”
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.”
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.”