The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.
People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.
When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.
My family and I were some of the first people to be genotyped.
People are used to dealing with risk.
You are not just about death and disease.
The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got - like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago.
It's crazy to me that in this world of electronic medical records Walmart has so much information about how we shop, but no one has that information about our health. Why can't my doctor say, 'Wow, Anne, based on your lifestyle and behavior, you're five years from being diabetic.' But I can go to Target, and they know exactly what I'm going to buy.
Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.
There's a beauty in being unrealistic.
I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.
You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.
It's interesting: I think, genetically, there are people who need different things, like exercise. I need the exercise, others not so much, and I think more and more, we'll start to understand why people's bodies function in certain ways.
One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.
When Amazon emerged, people had these debates about whether people would put their credit cards online.
When I graduated from college in 1996 and the Internet was taking off, I remember this feeling that there was an open range where anything could be built.
There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.
As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'
I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.
We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.
