anne wojcicki had to face a very public divorce from her husband, sergey brin. she has made a remarkable comeback with a first fda approved consumer product. joining me today is anne wojcicki. emily: it's so great to have you here. the last two years have been crazy. it could have been disastrous for the company. now you are back on good terms. how do you feel right now? anne: i feel great. i am proud of the company and what we have accomplished. when you have to slog through and put your head down and there is a lot of work ahead of you and you're not going to see a reward for a couple of years, it's hard. i feel like we just climbed the first flight of stairs, but we're still climbing the empire state building. there is a lot more to go. we are back on the market. we have an incredible product. we have redesigned everything. this is the first chapter and a whole new book for 23andme. emily: you have the first fda approved consumer genetic test. anne: consumers can buy things without having to go through a counselor or a physician. they can buy them directly fr

emily: at a certain point you meant sergey brin. the cofounder of google.nne: they started google in my sister's house. i could not avoid him because he was always there. we would be washing dishes and see them in the other room. they were just there. i used to hang out at google all the time. there was free food and my sister was there and it was fun. i got to know sergey. emily: what was that like? seeing on the frontline of google? anne: i think sergey and larry, they did not start it as they -- start it because they wanted money. they started it because they had the dream of having a world of information on their laptop. they could have sold the company and then be professors and life would've been good as well. they did things in their own way. i would complain to larry about the health care space and how much i felt like it was dysfunctional. he said, you're either part of the solution or part of the problem. that was a call to action. that was very much them. if it is bad, you fix it. emily: he was predisposed to parkinson's disease. that became a cr

emily: at a certain point you meant sergey brin. the cofounder of google. they started google in my sister's house. they used to joke that i could not avoid him because he was always there. we would be washing dishes and see them in the other room. they were just there. i used to hang out at google all the time. for one, my sister was there, there was free food, and it was fun. i got to know sergey. emily: what was that like? being on the front line of the founding of google? anne: i think sergey and larry, timespent a lot of together. they did not start it because they wanted money. they started it because they had the dream of having a world of information on their laptop. they could have sold the company and then be professors and life would've been good as well. they did things in their own way. secondly i would complain to , larry about the health care space and how much i felt like health care was dysfunctional. he said, you're either part of the solution or part of the problem. that was when i was called to action. that was very much them. if it is b

anne wojcicki had to face a very public divorce from her husband, sergey brin.e a remarkable comeback with a first fda approved consumer product.

anne wojcicki had to face a very public divorce from her husband, google cofounder sergey brin., she has made a remarkable comeback with a first fda approv

the sergey brin from the south will continue into the first part tomorrow night and then the friend gets past these to morning clouds on friday. a breeze to cool it down to 50 these are lake effect snow squalls and colder temperatures temperature for the weekend. showers and drivel overnight. upper 50's and periods of rain into the first part tomorrow night we'll been at this. 50 and pretty gusty breeze morning clouds and son and there is december. saturday and sunday 41 saturday a windy day with sunshine cold in the morning 45 sunday but right back to 50 on monday as clouds return in a couple of showers tuesday and wednesday. lower 60s by wednesday. i just looked at the computer data and it may reach 70 year christmas eve and christmas day. steve: i love it. thank you nick. jennifer: we will be right back. >> traffic tracker brought to you by toyota. >> i'm ines rosales with a third. the bruxner will have construction thursday and friday 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.. tune into "good day new york" starting a 4:30 in the morning and i will keep yo kids don' t stay little forever. so help th

sergey brin, larry page from google added a combined $20 billion. those were the three big winners.id: how about losers? ela: one that stands out is carlos slim. the government is trying to break his monopoly of part. his stock took a big hit. david: talk about the regulatory issues they are facing. some new competition from at&t. before he controlled about 75% of the land lines and most of the mobile phone industry, now he is having some competition. david: i wanted to ask you what we have seen from china, softening demand for commodities. there were so many chinese billionaires, about 50, and it has been reduced as the year has gone on. when the stock market was taking off, there were 50 new billionaires in the first half. every new week we had one more. the collapse in july, only 19 were left. david: and we have seen a contraction in russia as well. russia used to have a lot more on the index, now we have about 19 people. definitely the sanctions have taken a toll on their net worth. david: thank you very much, pamela. coming up, we will talk about gun control. excuse me, financi