It took me a good 30 minutes to complete the process and a few refreshes later I got the deletion email. Make sure you revoke the consent for storing your samples if you haven't already _before_ this process just in case.
None, but it's better than nothing. There are probably some legal consequences to ignoring these requests, especially in California, but given the current legal climate these days it's a shrug emoji.
There's probably a business case to be written here about total addressable market. The world is a big place, but after all the people willing to pay $50-$100 for some novelty info buy their dossiers, where does new revenue come from to keep the lights on?
New people turning 18. It's no different than the FL studio model, which has worked admirably well for much longer than this has been a company. The population isn't static.
one would hope that they could find a way to be sustainable with a payment of $100 per record or whatever it was. (i don't have a good sense of what their costs per commercial sequence are.)
but the difference between food and 23andme, beyond the obvious necessity v curiosity, is that 23andme is a 1 time purchase. once someone has seen their results, they've extracted all the value and have no reason to buy anything else.
I saw one of the mainstream news writeups about this say that the IPO made her a billionaire, which made me raise an eyebrow considering she's the mother of Sergey's kids.
I remember when they just started. Junped on the bandwagon right away. I assumed that so much data would yield some practical results almost immediately. It’s been what, 10 plus years? I’m kinda sad about this.
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It took me a good 30 minutes to complete the process and a few refreshes later I got the deletion email. Make sure you revoke the consent for storing your samples if you haven't already _before_ this process just in case.
What assurances do you get that pushing delete actually deletes your data?
Your data is now the primary source of their valuation in a sale.
Also there isn't any cost to selling a new key after the software is made.
FL also wouldn't have astronomical valuations of 1bn or whatever 23 made it to.
Even in third world scenarios, it you secure grant of government funding, anyone could become customers.
What actually went wrong here is not a matter of growth but failure to attain what should have become a sustainable business model.
but the difference between food and 23andme, beyond the obvious necessity v curiosity, is that 23andme is a 1 time purchase. once someone has seen their results, they've extracted all the value and have no reason to buy anything else.
Are you drawing a distinction between SPAC and other forms of ownership? Are SPACs more likely to flameout (big money and big (fast?) collapse?)