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There is an important lesson here: if you can get just one high-profile person to back you, your business idea -- no matter how silly or impractical -- will mak
by dpapathanasiou 19y ago
There is an important lesson here: if you can get just one high-profile person to back you, your business idea -- no matter how silly or impractical -- will make a splash.
And people wonder why there's so much interest in applying to YC.
- timr 19y agoPerhaps. But my estimation is that the ycombinator folks put in more effort to screen people than is the case, here.
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- timr 19y agohttp://23andme.com/about.html http://23andme.com/about.html One has a BA in biology, the other a BS. Aside from the people they know, their primary qualifications are that they worked in pharmaceutical sales and investment. This is a field involving cutting-edge research in biology, biochemistry, computer science and mathematics. There's a reason that drug companies have doctorates in their top executive positions....
- rms 19y agoNo, there's nothing to this field. The people doing the research have to be qualified, but all 23andme is doing is marketing and sales. They buy chips from www.illumina.com and resell them with service for twice as much money.