Who am I, and where do I come from?
summary
Company launches DNA arm as a separate “rebel” team, self-funds an initial ~$10M and turns the unit profitable faster than projected while keeping core records integrated. Pipeline extracts DNA from saliva and tests 700,000 genetic markers, compares results to 70M family trees and to everyone else in the database, now approaching 2 million samples, generating about 8 billion connections and ethnicity percentages; health insights planned later, privacy controls and anonymity supported.
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- 0:00Start
- 8:06Genetic Ethnicity
- 8:46Six Degrees of Separation
- 15:11Timothy Patrick Sullivan
- 16:56What Keeps You Guys Up at Night
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