![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Disillusioned by the culture of Wall Street and its attitude towards health care, she decided to forego taking the Medical College Admission Test to enroll in medical school and instead decided to focus on biological research. She was a health care investment analyst for four years, overseeing health care investments, focusing on biotechnology companies. Career Īfter graduating, Wojcicki worked as a health care consultant at Passport Capital, a San Francisco-based investment fund and at Investor AB. She conducted molecular biology research at the National Institutes of Health and at the University of California, San Diego. During her time there she played on the varsity women's ice hockey team. She received a Bachelor of Science in biology at Yale University in 1996. ![]() ![]() 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. When she was fourteen, she learned how to figure skate, and later started playing ice hockey. The three sisters grew up on Stanford's campus. Her parents are Esther Wojcicki (née Hochman), an educator who is Jewish, and Stanley Wojcicki, a Polish-born physics professor emeritus at Stanford University. Wojcicki was born in Palo Alto, California, and has two older sisters – Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, and Janet Wojcicki, an anthropologist and epidemiologist. ![]()
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