PALO ALTO — On paper, the top legal job at 23andMe might look like one of the hottest tickets in town. The high-profile Mountain View–based company, backed by Google and run by Anne Wojcicki, has pioneered the potentially paradigm-shifting personal genomics model. The job arguably just got more interesting when the Food and Drug Administration strong-armed the company into ceasing its interpretation of genetic test results. 23andMe now faces several class actions related to its regulatory missteps.
But the general counsel’s office has been empty since July, when longtime VP of corporate development and chief legal officer Ashley Gould left to take a similar post at Hyperion Therapeutics. The company’s seeming lack of urgency to fill the post has puzzled some in the Valley, given that other disruptive start-ups in highly regulated sectors—think Uber or Airbnb—have made the GC job a priority. So too did 23andMe, at least in the early days.
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