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Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305M

by vidyesh on 6/14/25, 2:45 AM with 13 comments

  • by teruakohatu on 6/14/25, 5:01 AM

    Wojcicki's non-profit "TTAM Research Institute" domain was registered last month [1] and the current Powered by GoDaddy landing page went online around 5 June. [2]

    Anyone know if its a legitimate non-profit or one of the "sort of" non-profit?

    From the press release [3] ...

    > TTAM Research Institute (“TTAM”), a nonprofit public benefit corporation based in California ... The TTAM Research Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to helping scientists and non-scientists join together to unravel the mysteries of DNA - the code of life. TTAM believes everyone should have the opportunity to access their individual genetic code and be empowered to contribute it to scientific research. The TTAM Research Institute was founded and is led by Anne Wojcicki.

    [1] https://who.is/whois/ttamresearchinstitute.org

    [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://ttamrese...

    [3] https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/news-release-det...

  • by iamwil on 6/14/25, 4:06 AM

    How did she get the money to buy it back? I understand it’s from the non-profit, but how did they get the money?

  • by ChrisArchitect on 6/14/25, 5:40 AM

  • by getcrunk on 6/14/25, 4:07 AM

    Oh wow. Sold it to her self and got off on her debts. America!