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23andMe's Fatal Flaw | Guess Who’s Back | 3

2025/6/19
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Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi
一名在《The Indicator from Planet Money》中活跃的经济新闻记者和主持人。
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David Brown
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Lila McClellan
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David Brown: 23andMe的商业模式存在根本性缺陷,依赖于客户的一次性购买,并且在尝试通过新药创造收入来源时为时已晚。公司在数据泄露和董事会辞职后申请破产,创始人Ann Wuchitski试图通过她的非营利组织重新参与竞标,以更高的价格购回公司。 Lila McClellan: Ann Wuchitski在正确的时机出现,能够成就一家大公司。她具有魅力和顺风,但后来出现了一些问题,这使得她的故事变得有趣和人性化。她的领导风格是控制型的,她会进行微观管理,并且希望自己做决定,这会减慢公司的发展速度。公司内部的决策是为了让Ann开心,而不是为了公司的正确方向,这可能导致了公司的问题。此外,Reddit论坛上的股东认为她的领导风格是“要么听我的,要么滚蛋”,并且认为她在阻碍公司的发展。最终,董事会成员对23andMe失去了信心,并辞职。 Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi: 我的姨妈在23andMe最受欢迎的时候加入了,她想了解她和我们的家人如何融入人类在世界各地传播的更广泛的历史中。然而,当23andMe申请破产时,我们开始担心我们的基因数据会发生什么。23andMe的隐私政策允许他们出售数据,即使在破产时也是如此,这引发了对数据隐私的担忧。许多州的总检察长已经敦促23andMe的客户立即删除他们的数据,以确保安全。虽然破产法院任命了一位隐私专员来保护消费者,但该行业面临着信任危机,因为人们对这些公司如何处理敏感信息越来越谨慎。

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This chapter explores the rise and fall of 23andMe, highlighting its initial success, the questionable business model, and the eventual bankruptcy filing in 2025. It sets the stage for the following chapters, focusing on the leadership of Anne Wojcicki and the subsequent events.
  • 23andMe's initial success was built on hype and investment, but its business model was flawed.
  • The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2025.
  • Anne Wojcicki resigned from the company to pursue buying it back.

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Just when it looked like 23andMe was selling to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, founder Anne Wojcicki placed a bid through her new nonprofit in an attempt to win it back at the eleventh hour. Lila MacLellan, Senior Writer at Fortune, joins David to discuss Wojcicki’s leadership style, and what the new version of 23andMe might look like under her control. Later, Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi of NPR’s Planet Money shares what happens to people’s sensitive health data when the company holding that information files for bankruptcy — and how consumers can protect themselves.  

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