372: Biotech Billionaire Anne Wojcicki, Cofounder and CEO of 23andMe

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ve heard data has the power to make or break a business. Nobody knows this more than Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of biotech giant 23andMe. After 15 years of leveraging data to build a game-changing company, Wojcicki made headlines this summer when she became the latest self-made billionaire in the United States. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of the Foundr podcast, learn how the newly minted billionaire built 23andMe from the ground up</span><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">—</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">plus what the company plans to do next with all that genomic data. Foundr’s Nathan Chan sat down to chat with Wojcicki about: </span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The moment that inspired her to pursue “the solution to life” </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How she became the first woman to achieve billionaire status via a SPAC merger</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What it took to provide consumers with never-before-seen access to their genomic data </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The marketing plan that inspired customers to buy a product they didn’t know they needed </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How she grew her company from a tiny crew in a roof-less “office” to a team of more than 600 </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What 23andMe plans to do with the genomic data from 11.6 million people and counting </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">And much more…</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">fdsa<br /> <br /> <br /></span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Who do you wa