Anne Wojcicki

Anne Wojcicki is an investor, biologist, philanthropist, and the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe. She also serves on the boards of 23andMeand Breakthrough Prize, cofounded the Brin Wojcicki Foundation, and founded the Anne Wojcicki Foundation.

In 2021, Wojcicki was ranked #25 on Forbes' America's Self-Made Women and #90 on the Forbes' Power Women, and her net worth was estimated at $1.1 billion. Additionally, she is the younger sister of Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, and was married to Sergey Brin, the cofounder of Google.

Anne Wojcicki, Co-founder and CEO of 23andMe

Wojcicki cofounded 23andMe in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza. Before founding 23andMe, Wojcicki spent ten years on Wall Street investing in healthcare. During her time there, she felt frustrated by a system built around monetizing illness instead of incentivizing prevention. She wanted to build a business that would help people prevent illness rather than profit from it.

Additionally, getting access to and understanding her own genetic information had always been one of her ambitions. Wojcicki started 23andMe with the hope to empower others with access to their own genetic information and to create a way to generate more personalized information so commercial and academic researchers could better understand and develop new drugs and diagnostics.

23andMe provides the only personal genetic test with FDA authorization to deliver health information directly to consumers. The company has brought personalized medicine directly to millions of people, and Wojcicki is considered a pioneer in the direct-to-consumer DNA testing industry.

Wojcicki earned a BS in biology from Yale University in 1996. She worked on molecular biology research at the National Institutes of Health, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Yale University, and the University of California San Diego. Wojcicki was a competitive ice skater and played varsity ice hockey while at Yale.