>>825021

>Sergy Brin

>>825021

An awkward affair between Google founder Sergey Brin and his employee Amanda Rosenberg created a rift between Brin and Google co-founder Larry Page to the point that the longtime friends stopped talking for a time, according to a new report.

Brin’s affair with Rosenberg, a Google Glass marketing manager in her mid-20s, also forced Brin, 40, out of the Silicon Valley house he shared with his two children and high-powered wife, Anne Wojcicki, 40, who considered Rosenberg a friend, Vanity Fair reported in its April issue.

Wojcicki, who first met Brin in 1998 as he and Page began their search-engine company, found emails in late 2012 or early 2013 between her husband and Rosenberg that “caused her to feel alarm,” according to Vanity Fair.

Brin, worth an estimated $30 billion, moved out last April and the two publicly announced the split in August.

http:// www.nydailynews.com/news/national/sergey-brin-affair-amanda-rosenberg-upset-google-brass-report-article-1.1719746

>>825227

The two had married in 2007 - and Wojcicki appeared to have embraced family life while Brin wanted to live the fast life of a wealthy tech tycoon.

“Instead of just being a Google founder, Sergey was suddenly awesome, a cool person, a performer—a celebrity!” a friend of the couple’s told Vanity Fair. “And he was like, ‘Wait a second—I’m doing all this cool stuff, and then I have to come home and change diapers?’ ”

Rosenberg, the public face of Google Glass, was quickly outed as the object of Brin’s affection in the love triangle and has since seemed to publicly embrace the relationship.

But Rosenberg, at the time of her fledgling affair with Brin, was involved with another Google employee, Hugo Barra, a high-ranking member of the company’s Android team.

Unaware of the affair, Barra wanted Rosenberg to move to Hong Kong with him as he planned to accept a job with a Chinese cellphone company, Vanity Fair reported.

She denied his request, and in May, dumped Barra.

>>825259

“At Google, some people were furious internally, especially women, that Sergey and Amanda were not [professionally] separated,” the source added.

Brin and Wojcicki, the founder of DNA testing company 23andMe, remain close - and married.

It’s unclear if the couple will reconcile or end up divorced.

They are apparently close enough to attend a Halloween party, along with their children, at the home of Yahoo’s CEO, and former Google executive, Marissa Mayer.

That decision reportedly caused problems between Brin and his brunette beauty - and current love interest.

“The two of them have horrible, screaming fights,” a family friend told Vanity Fair of Brin and Rosenberg. “It’s part of the passion, the chemical attraction.”

>>825280

>Wojcicki, the founder of DNA testing company 23andMe, remain close -

>>825280

Sergey's wife is founder of 23andME DNA testing!

>>825313

The company was founded by Linda Avey, Paul Cusenza and Anne Wojcicki in 2006 to provide genetic testing and interpretation to individual consumers.[14][15] In 2007, Google invested $3,900,000 in the company, along with Genentech, New Enterprise Associates, and Mohr Davidow Ventures.[16] Wojcicki was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin at the time.[7]

Cusenza left the company in 2007 and was appointed CEO of Nodal Exchange in 2008.[17] Avey left the company in 2009 and co-founded Curious, Inc. in 2011.[18]

In 2012, 23andMe raised $50 million in a Series D venture round, almost doubling its existing capital of $52.6 million.[19][20][21] In 2015, 23andMe raised $115 million in a Series E offering, increasing its total capital to $241 million.[5][22][23]

The company sponsored the PBS TV series "9 Months That Made You".[24]

Another $250 million of financing was raised in September 2017, led by new investor Sequoia Capital. Sequoia is joined in the financing by new investors Euclidean Capital, Altimeter Capital and the Wallenberg Foundation.[25]

In 2018, the company initiated a series of advertisements with well-known figures, firstly with Warren Buffett.[26]

Relationship with government regulators[edit]

The new genetic testing service and ability to map significant portions of the genome has raised controversial questions, including whether the results can be interpreted meaningfully and whether they will lead to genetic discrimination.[10][27] The regulatory environment for testing companies has been uncertain, and anticipated risk-based regulation catering for different types of genetic tests has not yet materialized.[28][29][30]

State regulators[edit]

In 2008 the states of New York and California each provided notice to 23andMe and similar companies, that they needed to obtain a CLIA license in order to sell tests in those states.[10][31][32] By August 2008, 23andMe had received licenses that allow them to continue to do business in California.[33]

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23andMe

>>825339

As of June 2015, 23andMe has genotyped over 1,000,000 individuals.[60][61] FDA marketing restrictions reduced customer growth rates[62] but by 2018 they had tested five million individuals.[1][63]

>>825369

Medical research[edit]

Aggregated customer data is studied by scientific researchers employed by 23andMe for research on inherited disorders. The large pool of data in its customer database has also attracted the interest of academics and other partners,[62] including pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.[27][76] In July 2012, 23andMe acquired the startup CureTogether, a crowdsourced treatment ratings website with data on over 600 medical conditions.[77]

23andMe provides services related to some specific medical research initiatives,[78] providing confidential customer datasets to and partnering with researchers to establish genetic associations with specific illnesses and disorders.[14] One analysis comparing 23andMe's Parkinson's disease research with a National Institutes of Health initiative suggested that the company's use of large amounts of computational power and datasets might offer comparable results, in much less time.[79] 23andMe has launched research initiatives enrolling patients into study populations for inflammatory bowel disease, myeloproliferative neoplasms, and lupus.[80][81] Papers on various genetic traits by 23andMe scientists were presented at the 2014 American Society of Human Genetics.[82]

In 2015, 23andMe made a business decision to pursue drug development themselves, under the direction of former Genentech executive Richard Scheller, as opposed to supplying pharmaceutical companies with raw data.[5][83]

>>825384

> Genentech executive Richard Scheller

A rare collection of African art assembled over nearly 30 years by a leading Genentech biochemist will go on display at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park in late January, marking the first time the public has seen many of the carved forms and shapes.

The collection, "Embodiments: Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture," was assembled by scientist Richard Scheller, who was taken by African art's "amazing forms," but fascinated when he began to learn what the sculptures represent.

"At first I was interested in the form and shapes," said Scheller, 60, who as executive vice president of research and early development at Genentech spends much of his time talking with scientists about medicines that will significantly impact the lives of patients. "Then I became extremely fascinated that people believed these carved forms were an idealized concept of what the ancestor would look like after entering the spirit world."

He added, "The carved forms didn't represent the ancestor; they became the ancestor. So not only were they extremely beautiful and interesting, but (my collecting) became a way of preserving these incredibly varied, diverse, and rich cultures."

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He also appreciates the influence African art and objects have had on modern art and abstraction in Europe.

https:// www.sfgate.com/art/article/Richard-Scheller-s-rare-African-art-head-to-de-5688974.php