“If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.”

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.