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23andMe’s entire board resigned on the same day. Founder Anne Wojcicki still thinks the startup is savable

What really happened at the once hot DNA testing company.

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The company was founded almost 20 years ago. At what point is it no longer a startup?

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- I think they are confused on thinking that any private company is a startup.
  
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Don’t worry, the data will get bought up by the healthcare industry and start using it to deny coverage or to increase premiums.

“You’ve been randomly selected for a rate increase! For no reason at all! Definitely random!” - Your insurance in 2 years, probably

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- Health insurance industry.
  
  Most people in healthcare hate them too.
  
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- I'd be really interested to know my heritage but this scenario actively is stopping me from doing so.
  
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  It’s okay, you can just be like me and have both your parents do it! They may not know my exact data, but they’ve got enough to guess.
  
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  I really don't get this. I know where my parents and grandparents came from. Should I care if I have Irish or African blood? It baffles me that anyone does. How would that information would change my life? We should be judged by our actions, not by the origin of our distant ancestors.
  
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Cool. Will it be savable before or after the Nazis use that list of Ashkenazi Jews hackers got from your company as a kill list?

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Is there a non-paywalled link for this?

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- I run uBlock and NoScript, no paywall for me. Just nice text.
  
  https://i.imgur.com/8vSCJs4.png
  
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- You can always type "remove paywall.com/" in front of the URL. It works for a lot of sites.
  
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