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23andMe (2006-2025), the death of an ambitious idea

by elcazador on 3/26/25, 12:47 PM with 3 comments

• by JohnFen on 3/26/25, 1:33 PM

  I allowed my sister to talk me into doing this despite my very strong reservations regarding privacy and data security. It was important to her and so I took the chance for her.

  I'll never make that mistake again. Future companies that may want to do similar things (whether related to genetic or other data) can go suck it.

• by dtagames on 3/26/25, 2:15 PM

  TIL Anne Wojcicki was married to Sergey Brin who provided the original funding for 23andMe.