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Co-Founder, 23andMe

Linda Avey has over 20 years of sales and business development experience in the biopharmaceutical industry in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. Prior to starting 23andMe, she[…]

Linda Avey on the Collective Genetic Research

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