With the business in a tailspin, 23andMe’s CEO assures investors there’s still plenty of money it can make on your genes.
23andMe is in a death spiral. Almost everyone who wants a DNA test already bought one, a nightmare data breach ruined the company’s reputation, and 23andMe’s stock is so close to worthless it might get kicked off the Nasdaq. CEO Anne Wojcicki is on a crisis tour, promising investors the company isn’t going out of business because she has a new plan: 23andMe is going to double down on mining your DNA data and selling it to pharmaceutical companies.
Worse, the appeal of a DNA test for most people is the novelty of ancestry results, but if your brother already paid for a test, you already know the answers. 23andMe knows that’s an issue, so it’s spent years trying to brand itself as a healthcare service, and not just a $79 permission slip to tell people you’re Irish. In fact, the company thinks you should buy yourself a recurring annual subscription to something called 23andMe+ Total Health. It only costs $1,188 a year.
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