8 posts and columns on Linda Avey

Yelp, YouTube and 23andMe Co-Founders All Working on New Start-Ups

in News on December 16, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

In recent weeks, I’ve stumbled onto a few fresh new start-ups from the departed co-founders of current influential tech companies.
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23andMe Co-Founder Linda Avey Leaves Personal Genetics Start-Up to Focus on Alzheimer's Research

in News on September 4, 2009 at 1:49 pm PT

Linda Avey, co-founder of 23andMe, the personal genetics start-up, will be leaving to start a foundation related to Alzheimer’s disease. With Anne Wojcicki, she founded the high-profile company–whose Series A investors include Genentech, Google, and New Enterprise Associates, as well as Wojcicki’s husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin–in 2006. Avey noted in an email to staff, which is posted in its entirety below: “I also recognize that the company has reached a critical point in its growth where new leadership can take it to the successful heights we all think it can achieve.”
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An American (Well, Lots of Them) in Paris for Le Web

in News on December 8, 2008 at 10:00 am PT

BoomTown just got to Paris, as in France, to attend and moderate sessions for the third annual Le Web conference. Le Web is organized by Loïc and Geraldine Le Meur, with 1,500 people signed up to hear a range of Internet players, many of whom are from the U.S., tomorrow and Wednesday. Silicon Valley speakers include Marissa Mayer of Google, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman and Dan’l Lewin of Microsoft. And some interesting European execs include France Telecom Orange Chairman and CEO Didier Lombard and Jacques-Antoine Granjon, CEO and co-founder of a very interesting fashion sale site, Vente-Privee.com.

The Entire D6 Demo of 23andMe

in News on September 9, 2008 at 12:54 am PT

In the less contentious spirit of DEMOfall and TechCrunch50, two demo conferences taking place simultaneously this week, we’re happy to bring you all the demos we had onstage at the D6 conference. Next up is the demo for 23andMe, the Web-based, direct-to-consumer genome site, which showed off its new 23andWe service.

Kara Visits DLD in Germany: The Naomi Campbell Edition

in News on January 23, 2008 at 12:03 am PT

Why was supermodel Naomi Campbell suddenly standing right next to German publisher Hubert Burda at the final lunch for his company’s DLD–Digital, Life, Design–conference in Munich yesterday? I have no idea, nor do I know why Burda broke out into song either–how much do you have to love a media mogul willing to do that? [...]

Kara Visits 23andMe

in News on November 19, 2007 at 12:05 am PT

So I paid a visit a few weeks ago to the new offices of 23andMe, a start-up that has gotten a lot of attention for its unusual aim of joining together DNA research and social networking. It’s an arena sure to be interesting, so here’s a video I made of my tour of 23andMe: The [...]

23andMe's Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey Speak, Part 2

in News on November 19, 2007 at 12:04 am PT

Here’s the second part of a longer interview I did with 23andMe‘s co-founders Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey about the personal online genetics and social-networking service, which is being launched today. The company name comes from the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up each individual’s genome. In this part, they talk about the privacy [...]

23andMe's Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey Speak, Part 1

in News on November 19, 2007 at 12:03 am PT

Here’s the first part of a longer interview I did with 23andMe‘s co-founders Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey about the personal online genetics and social-networking service, which is being launched today. The company name comes from the 23 pairs of chromosomes that make up each individual’s genome. In this part, they talk about why customers [...]