In fact, Wall Street is much more fun than a generic office park in Silicon Valley.
Disclosure: Left tech for Wall Street
Avoid.
Personally, it sounds unbearable, since money is just about the most boring topic I can imagine, done to death for centuries already; I'd rather watch paint dry.
The title was "Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future"
There was absolutely nothing about "How to Build the Future". Just a random blabber about whatever. 0/10
- Successful parents from NYC that have their own Wikipedia page.
- Worked on Wall Street.
- Educated at Yale.
The list goes on.....
How many people can relate to that much privilege?
It would be fun hearing a debate between Anne and Susan about this.
Also she uses the term "consumer" in place of "patient" several times. That seems wrong to me.
Will the next interview be about partnering with World Government Summit? [2]
We had people in Europe trying this for a very long time - didn't end well (never does)..
[1]: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingo...
Here's a guide of some of their connections. (My first honest reaction: it does seem fairly incestuous. And then I'm not even getting into.. well, let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. All of the people mentioned here belong to one particular subgroup in the US. It just feels odd to me. Diversity hasn't reached these levels yet, I guess.)
Anne Wojcicki: CEO of 23andMe. Former part-time partner of Y Combinator, back then along with Ben Silbermann, co-founder and CEO of Pinterest; and Joe Gebbia, co-founder and chief product officer of Airbnb: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/09/y...
Sergey Brin: co-founder of Google and formerly married to Anne.
Susan Wojcicki: Anne's sister, and CEO of Youtube, owned by Google.
Sam Altman: President of Y Combinator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin
Brin was born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, to Russian Jewish parents,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki
Her mother is American and Jewish, and her father is a Polish-born American
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
He was raised Jewish and is gay.
So, you listed a Russian immigrant, two women and a gay man and you claim it lacks diversity -- because they are all apparently Caucasian and there seems to be a common thread of being Jewish or part Jewish?
(Let's not forget rich. All the rich people are rich and it's terrible. We should have a mix of socioeconomic groups amongst the rich. /s)
Sincere question: What kind of lack of diversity are you talking about? What would meet your definition of diverse?
EDIT: And, if you really want to hit it out of the park, who haven't been either married or siblings to Anne at some point.
"But he's gay!"
To play devil's advocate, Marie Curie was worse. She, her husband, her daughter, and her daughter's husband all won Nobel Prizes. Marie even won it twice in two fields.
Both were great at their game, no doubt about it. Both worked hard to get to that level, everyone at that level does. Both acknowledge the role their father played in their success.
Read the wojcicki interview again. I think you’ll notice what is missing.
