{"id":9490,"date":"2009-09-05T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T07:57:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-05T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T07:57:00","slug":"google-co-founder-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/9490-google-co-founder-leaves.html","title":{"rendered":"Google co-founder leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain View-based 23andMe Inc. announced Friday that Linda Avey is leaving to start an Alzheimer&#8217;s research foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Avey launched 23andMe in 2006 with Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The company analyzes people&#8217;s DNA to detect potential health problems before they occur.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Google has invested $7 million in the company, including $2.6 million in June. Brin himself has invested about $10 million of his personal fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Avey and Wojcicki said that the foundation would use 23andMe&#8217;s research technology to test their own patients as they seek Alzheimer&#8217;s genetic roots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=190448\"><strong>Google backed genetic startup<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The direct-to-consumer genetic testing startup backed by Google Inc. is losing its co-founder months after the search giant upped its investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}