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☆ See the presentation that got a healthtech startup $7 million from Khosla Ventures to help patients find new treatments using AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Eureka Health is building a platform to help patients with chronic conditions find new treatments. Eureka Health used this 11-slide pitch deck to land $7 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures. Eureka Health seeks to give patients with chronic conditions a community to find new treatments based on reports of what other patients have tried. Then, Eureka patients can log how effective a specific treatment was for their symptoms, as well as any side effects they may have experienced. Eureka Health provided Insider with the deck it used to raise $7 million in seed funding.

Persons: Zain Memon, Noah MacCallum, Memon, MacCallum, Anne Wojcicki, Susan Wojcicki, Eureka, we're Organizations: Eureka Health, Khosla Ventures, Health, South Park, SciFi, Able Partners, Bow, 23andMe, South Locations: Eureka, South Park

☆ Alphabet dumps more than 90% of its stake in Robinhood
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Google parent Alphabet has pared back large positions in multiple publicly traded firms, including the trading platform Robinhood , the gene testing company 23andMe and language learning startup Duolingo . The company dumped nearly 90% of its stake in Robinhood, according to SEC filings. The company sold off more than 4.3 million shares of the fintech stock during the period ending June 30. Robinhood posted its first profit as a publicly traded company on Aug. 2. Alphabet still held about 612,000 shares of Robinhood as of June 30.

Persons: Robinhood, Anne Wojcicki, Sergey Brin Organizations: SEC, Wall, Google Locations: Robinhood, Duolingo, 23andMe

Christopher Willard | Walt Disney Television | Getty ImagesOn the advantage of being an underdog: I grew my business in a man's world. There were no businesses in New York City, especially in real estate, that were owned by women. There weren't any women role models, and the men weren't very forthcoming [with advice]. When I was just starting out, I went to a community business event and none of the men would even talk to me. On why she likes to partner with women in business: Women are more willing to listen [than men], and they're not as cocky they'll be an instant success.

☆ How these 3 sisters grew up to become highly successful CEOs and a doctor: 'It's helpful to realize the world is often wrong'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Believing in yourself has immeasurable value, says Anne Wojcicki. "It's helpful for people to realize the world is often wrong," she tells CNBC Make It. "When you're swimming upstream, it's hard and you're going to have people telling you it's a bad idea or you're not capable," Anne says. Many of those close relationships remain: Anne says she and her two sisters all still "have the same friends from early elementary school." 1 best piece of advice for regular investors, do's and don'ts, and three key investing principles into a clear and simple guidebook.

☆ Esther Wojcicki raised 2 successful CEOs and a doctor—here's why she thinks good grades don't matter
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The grades you got in school don't really matter, says educator and bestselling author Esther Wojcicki. "The number one way I think we need to [encourage creative students] is we need to cut the importance of grades." Wojcicki's decades of teaching high school taught her that good grades are overrated, and not a significant indicator of a child's future success. Yet they're an important factor in how the country's education system views students' success and determines their future opportunities, she said in Dubai. "Everybody is fighting for grades and those grades lead to college, and if you don't have those grades you cannot go," Wojcicki said.

☆ Meet Anne Wojcicki: the sister of departing YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, and a self-made multimillionaire who founded the genetic testing giant 23andMe
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Avery Hartmans | Bethany Biron | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Anne Wojcicki is the sister of Susan Wojcicki, who announced she was stepping down as YouTube's CEO on Thursday. Anne Wojcicki co-founded the genetic testing company 23andMe after a career on Wall Street. While the focus right now is on Susan Wojcicki — who announced that she was stepping back from her role as YouTube's longtime CEO on Thursday — her younger sister Anne, is a tech industry veteran in her own right. Anne Wojcicki co-founded the genetic testing company 23andMe in 2006, and took the company public in June 2021 through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company. Here's a look back at Anne Wojcicki got her start and built a genetic-testing empire.

☆ Larry Page, Sergey Brin Post-Google Lives: Investments, Yachts, Islands
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Hugh Langley | Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +33 min

Even before their retirement from Google, Page and Brin relied heavily on their respective family offices to bring order to their worlds. The Bay Area headquarters of Koop, Larry Page's family office, is nondescript and gives little indication of the billionaire's empire. Insider; Marianne Ayala/Insider Show less Bayshore Global Management, Sergey Brin's family office, is based in Palo Alto and has a bit more of a public face. Insider; Marianne Ayala/Insider Show lessThe difference in styles holds true for Brin's family office, Bayshore Global Management. The CEO of Page's family office is Wayne Osborne, a former elder in the Presbyterian Church who attended Princeton Theological Seminary.

☆ Billionaires like Elon Musk want to save civilization by having tons of genetically superior kids. Inside the movement to take 'control of human evolution.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

"We are the Underground Railroad of 'Gattaca' babies and people who want to do genetic stuff with their kids," Malcolm told me. Ellison, meanwhile, who has two children in their 30s, has reportedly resumed having kids — with his 31-year-old girlfriend. "The person of this subculture really sees the pathway to immortality as being through having children," Simone said. The person of this subculture really sees the pathway to immortality as being through having children. Before she met Malcolm, Simone was convinced she wanted to live her life single and child-free.

☆ Only 5 billionaires including the founders of Zynga, FTX and 23andme have signed up to The Giving Pledge this year
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Only five have signed up for The Giving Pledge in 2022, down from 14 last year. The Giving Pledge was founded by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010 when dozens of America's wealthiest people pledged to donate the bulk of their fortune to help solve problems in society. Jeff Bezos, ranked by Forbes as the world's second-richest person worth $171 billion, is noticeably missing from The Giving Pledge. She said in her pledge letter that giving money away has "richly rewarded" her. The Giving Pledge did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

☆ See the presentations that hot healthcare startups used to raise millions from top VCs
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Here are the presentations obtained by Insider that healthcare startups have used to raise millions. Even so, healthcare startups raised $15.8 billion in the first half of the year, according to Silicon Valley Bank. Insider rounded up all the presentations we've published that healthcare startups have used to raise cash from investors. For instance, check out the 13-slide presentation heart-health startup Miga Health used to raise $12 million in seed funding. Brightside used this presentation to break through a crowded field of mental health startups and convince VCs to invest $24 million.

☆ Google's Sergey Brin Is Totally Obsessed With High-Adrenaline Exercise
▼ + stars: | 2014-08-19 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"When Larry and I started the company, we had to get some hard drives to, you know, store the entire Web," Brin told Wired of Google's early days. AdvertisementEven in the search engine's early days, Brin brought an element of fun and activity to the Googleplex. "They were much better than I expected for a bunch of engineers," he told Edwards. In 2008, he learned that he had a mutation on his LRRK2 gene, a defect that would substantially increase his risk of developing Parkinson's disease. Advertisement"If I felt it was guaranteed to cure Parkinson’s disease, a check for a billion dollars would be the easiest one I have written," Brin told Bloomberg.

Persons: Sergey Brin isn’t, Larry Page, Larry, Brin, Sergey, Doug Edwards, Edwards, couldn’t, Googlers, Greg Roberts, Roberts, Google George Salah, Jacob Silberberg, Page, Eugenia, Parkinson's, Anne Wojcicki, Wojcicki, Michael J Organizations: Khan Academy, Khan, University of Maryland, Stanford, Google, Circus Center, Flickr, 23AndMe, Fox Foundation, Parkinson's Research, Bloomberg Locations: San Jose, Moscow, Soviet Russia, rollerblades, Sunset, Queens, Brooklyn, New York City, San Francisco, New York

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