“I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'”

Anne Wojcicki is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist. She co-founded 23andMe, a company pioneering genetic testing and personalized health data, and later launched Verily, a life sciences research arm of Alphabet. Her work centers on merging technology with medicine to advance preventive healthcare and genetic research.