Comments on: All In the Family: Sergey Brin Loans 23andme $10 Million And Google Ponies Up $2.6 Million

By: Layoffs Confirmed At 23andMe

Layoffs Confirmed At 23andMe — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:42:55 +0000

[...] The company also has close ties to Google — Sergey Brin (who is Wojciki’s husband) has loaned 23andMe $10 million, and Google also has a stake in the [...]

By: Google has a problem with DNA analysis | OverExpressed

Google has a problem with DNA analysis | OverExpressed — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:36:18 +0000

[...] is particularly amusing considering Google’s close ties with a certain consumer genetics company in the bay area. We ended up going with “DNA [...]

By: ø 23andme ø

ø 23andme ø — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:02:41 +0000

[...] consumers understand and decipher their genomes. 23andme has raised another $2.6 million … http://www.techcrunch.com/ DNA-decoding startup 23andMe raises another $2.6M from Google … Google has invested another [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:37:13 +0000

The details are here:

http://www.bsne...google-23andme/

By: swag

swag — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:34:49 +0000

Even when there are businesses that are the most heated rivals, you see rivals dismissing the other’s approaches or claims. You will even see them downplaying the value of their efforts.

But what you never see is outright laughter over the purpose of their business.

By: Jyoti Shete-Javadekar

Jyoti Shete-Javadekar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:35:23 +0000

23andMe is an exciting company. I just hope their technology gets affordable sooner. I am sure lot of people would lot of people would like to unfold secrets in their genomes.

By: JP Kab

JP Kab — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:20:41 +0000

The comments on here saying “make the tests free” are right on. That is how you monetize this. People sign an agreement saying their genetic profile can be sold(unlinked to their personal identity, of course) with ethnic tags attached, and in return they find out about their genetic makeup.

I think too many people place far too much importance on genetics. I am an identical twin, and my brother has relatively high body fat compared to myself. How many times do you hear its all genetics? Too often, this can become a self fulfilling prophecy, a la Gattica(best sci-fi movie I can remember)

By: Lawyers_r_us

Lawyers_r_us — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:59:06 +0000

So will google surface your genomes on their search engine? Kind of like an insurance agent searching for “find all people with heart conditions and make sure we never cover them”.

So I guess don’t do evil unless it is your spouse? Hmmm…

By: jck

jck — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:59:39 +0000

whipped!

By: Igor

Igor — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:03:13 +0000

No, I’m not going to do that, I’m sure she wouldn’t appreciate it. Besides even if I posted a picture of Adriana Lima you would still bash her because you have negative feeling towards me. Anyway, you need to relax and get off Sergey’s balls, as much as you may like them. I know he’s rich but he’s probably not going to include you in his will .

By: Cats

Cats — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:23:28 +0000

So your girlfriend or wife is hot? post a picture up. Let us be the judge. My wife is hot and I would be willing to post her picture up for others to judge. My guess is your not hot nor is your wife/girlfriend. So leave Sergeys wife alone, she is hot!

By: Igor

Igor — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:17:49 +0000

If I was a Twitter, twiterrer….. twittererrrr…………whatever, I would have the link to my profile in my name like the rest of the people do on here, second of all, no I’m not single and third of all you have no taste.

By: 23andMe obtiene 2,6M por parte de Google

23andMe obtiene 2,6M por parte de Google — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:28:00 +0000

[...] una compañía que permite a sus usuarios conocer su información genética, ha recibido 2,6 millones de dólares por parte de Google, de un total de la ronda Serie B de 24,26 millones que ahora está tratando de [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:57:01 +0000

Fortunately, Sergey DOES have style.

By: Cats

Cats — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:56:40 +0000

Is wife is hot. Your obviously single and a twitter. Idiot

By: Will Hankinson

Will Hankinson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:17:51 +0000

Theoretically, a broader pool of investors also increases your advisory pool (and it’s good to have a variety of eyeballs).

Then again, Brin is well-connected enough that he could probably grab any advisors he wants for a company.

By: Devv

Devv — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:06:52 +0000

Complete nonsense.

Genomics for the general public is going to be instrumental in health. 23andme is one of the few ‘mainstream’ companies that’s getting a head start for when complete genetic mapping becomes affordable.

It sounds like your bias is slanted by people who haven’t a clue about this industry and/or who are merely envious.

By: All In the Family.

All In the Family. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:27:15 +0000

All In the Family?

Absolutely: We’re all going to share 1 Big Brother, soon.

By: fb216105

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:03:17 +0000

Was that really necessary?

By: wisdom teeth removal

wisdom teeth removal — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:52:15 +0000

can’t really figure out why google has invested in this company.

By: harry

harry — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:37:55 +0000

Huh? It’s actually cheaper for our lab to go to 23andme then it is to buy the chips directly from illumina..

By: harry

harry — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:35:54 +0000

You kidding? She’s got sex appeal and smarts and probably has a great personality.

By: Mr. Scientist

Mr. Scientist — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:12:58 +0000

As genome sequencing continues to drop in price (as it has exponentially over time), more people will have it done, which exponentially increases the information we can get out of the genome sequence.

Within five years we should see an explosion of information from this kind of genomics. 23andme is at the forefront of that.

By: That Guy

That Guy — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:37:49 +0000

Found this hope it helps.. It was buried in deep backlinks..

http://www.yout...h?v=znrjbo9QRLk

By: lotto

lotto — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:03:49 +0000

The genomics industry is a very appealing and modern topic but I don’t know if Google can stick its hands there too.