Anne Wojcicki Net Worth 2024, Family, Companies

what is Anne Wojcicki net worth 2024?

Anne E. Wojcicki is an American entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of the personal genomics company 23andMe.

She founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza. She is a co-founder and board member of the Breakthrough Prize.

Wojcicki married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2007; they divorced eight years later in 2015.

Anne Wojcicki net worth 2024 is valued at $250 million

Early life and education

Wojcicki was born in Palo Alto, California, and has two older sisters—Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of YouTube, and Janet Wojcicki, an anthropologist and epidemiologist.

Her parents are Esther Wojcicki (née Hochman), an educator and journalist, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish-born physics professor emeritus at Stanford University. The three sisters grew up on Stanford’s campus.

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When she was fourteen, she learned how to figure skate, and later started playing ice hockey.

Wojcicki attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, where she edited the school newspaper The Oracle, and won a scholarship for her sports stories.

She received a bachelor of science in biology at Yale University in 1996. During her time there she played on the varsity women’s ice hockey team.

She conducted molecular biology research at the National Institutes of Health and at the University of California, San Diego.

Career

After graduating, Wojcicki worked as a health care consultant at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based investment fund and at Investor AB.

She was a health care investment analyst for four years, overseeing health care investments, focusing on biotechnology companies.

Disillusioned by the culture of Wall Street and its attitude towards health care, she decided to forego taking the MCAT to enroll in medical school and instead decided to focus on biological research.

Wojcicki is best known as the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe, a direct to consumer DNA testing company, which allows for consumers to test for ancestry and health risks.

She founded the company in 2006 with Linda Avey and Paul Cusenza with a goal of providing common people access to their genetic information, which could further provide information on cures for diseases or treatments, especially with the help of Glaxo and their $300 million investment.

Wojcicki has expressed interest in “revolutionizing health care” with DNA testing, as it could provide consumers with enough information to predict potential genetic illnesses.

Consumers can purchase testing kits for $99, $199, and $499 which provide information on ancestry, health, and genetic traits. The company takes saliva samples that are mailed in by buyers, and processes the genetic information, posting the results online for the buyer to view.