“The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people w…” — Anne Wojcicki

23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.

I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.

I want the world's data accessible.

One of the big drivers for me is that health care is a very elitist system. As much as we try to make it free and democratic for all, the reality is that it's expensive and not all therapies are accessible to all people. So I have been very focused on making sure that we democratize genetic information so it's available to everyone.