joining me today on "studio 1.0," 23andme ceo and co-founder, anne wojcicki. anne: thank you.mily: it's so great to have you here. thanks for doing this. anne: yeah. any time. emily: the last two years for you have been crazy. it could have been disastrous for the company. but now you are back on good terms with the fda. how do you feel about where you are right now? anne: i feel great, like i'm super proud of the company and what we have accomplished because i think when you have to slog through and you just have to put your head down. that when 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 almost 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. it's amazing. we are back on the market. we have an incredible product. we have completely redesigned everything. and what i am really excited about is this is the first chapter in a whole new book for 23andme. emily: so you now have the first fda-approved consumer genetic test that a consu

in 1997, the person sitting next to you is anne wojcicki. bill: yes.his was before google even existed. we were office mates and became lost friends and have been friends ever since. at the time, she told me about some friends in her sister's garage. emily: so anne wojcicki went on to marry sergey brin, cofounder of google. she is also cofounder of 23 and me. she told you about google. and you were alike -- bill: i had a search engine. and here are these two stanford dropouts starting the company. but it was not attractive, because i had a path i was on and i wanted to see where it , would lead. emily: you are in vermont. he started a web company. you sold it. bill: a lot happened in between. i slept under my desk and ate a lot of canned foods. making payroll with my credit card, and march of 2000 when the market crashed, it was not worth anything to anyone. so we had to see it through that period and ended up selling that company in 2002, 2003, to web.com. emily: you ended back at google. bill: anne and sergey was insistent i go back to california. in

this as ceo anne wojcicki had to face a very public divorce from her husband, google co-founder sergey later, wojcicki and 23andme had made a remarkable comeback with its first fda approved consumer product, new funding and a $1.1 billion

in 1997, the person sitting next to you is anne wojcicki. bill: this was before google even existed. we were office mates and became fast friends and were friends ever since. at the time, she told me about some friends in her sister's garage. emily: anne went on to marry sergey brin. the cofounder of google. she is the cofounder of 23 and me. she told you about google. bill: here are these two stanford dropouts starting the company. i had a path i was on and i wanted to see where it would lead. emily: you started a web company in vermont and sold it. bill a lot happened in between. : i slept under my desk and ate a lot of canned foods. payroll with my credit card, and march of 2000 when the market crashed, it was not worth anything to anyone. we had to see it through the period and sold it in 2002 to web.com. emily: you ended back at google. and sergei were insistent that i go back to california, because that is where the future was. over the course of 19 interviews, they decided ok, bill, we will ask you to start looking into this. there wa