Genetics

“It's sometimes more potent than genetics.”

“Genetics. I don't want to say they don't matter, but they're not the decision maker. What really matters is epigenetics. It's what you're expressing. It's what's going on in your environment that's activating those genes. In a positive or negative way.”

“So something between seven and a half and eight and a half hours of sleep is typically good for everyone. But the real critical thing is this. If you feel consistently well-rested, you're good. Some people, that's six hours. The genetics just work like that. F…”

“The biggest factor of who's getting super obese and who's not is probably just people's genetically determined, largely genetically determined baseline hunger signaling and food pleasure response.”

“The thing is, is like, I'm a, eighty-twenty type of guy. I do like, 80% great, and then I like, fuck off for 20%. Like, I eat poorly sometimes, and, but I just think that a lot of this, the takeaway from when I did that thing was, it's mostly genetics, I think…”

“At the frontier of science, we do already have associations with genetics and intelligence, and we really believe in giving these insights to customers.”

“You know, even the heritability of happiness is, is lower than you might expect. You know, estimates kind of vary, but it's probably around, you know, 40%, 30%. Like, it's not that all the variants and the happy people that you see out there in the world is li…”

“80% of our longevity And our health in the future is in our own hands. Only 20% is genetic, which we cannot yet do much about.”

“You can kind of sweat your way to like maybe five or ten million in a lifetime, but becoming a billionaire and this huge outlier, I think it takes like a particular type of skill. Like you just genetically Predisposed to have it in your favor. And I think that…”

“And 50% of your happiness is genetic, by the way.”

“And so I'm doing this right now in the genetic space, you know, a space that I know a little bit about, but we started with this crazy thesis about X-Men. Could you find the rare mutants in the world and could you sequence them? And search for them, and then s…”

“Knowing a little bit about your genetics will allow us in the future to implement this vision of an information system with knowledge of your genome securely, which can then help your prescriber make decisions about the drugs that are most likely to work and t…”

“Using genetics to determine which drugs you're most likely to respond to. I think that that is, like, the lowest hanging fruit.”

“I think it's probably easier to be, A world-class athlete with great genetics and bad training than it is to be a world-class athlete with bad genetics and great training, if that makes sense.”

“People's attention spans have not changed since we sat around the fire in caves. Your attention span is determined by your genetics, and the human genome hasn't changed. What has changed is people's interest spans.”

“The way we kind of see it is that, that, that inflection point has already happened. It's somewhat akin to the microprocessor that forced a lot of horizontalization, de-aggregation of the industry. I think that's happening in genetics”