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Sarah Whitmire
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Senior Newsletters Editor, Forbes
Silver Spring
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Science , Food Ecology , Technology , Media
Topics not directly related to Boise or Idaho, with no exceptions.
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By Sarah Whitmire Verified| Forbes Verified If you’ve heard about famed startup incubator Y Combinator, which counts Airbnb and Instacart among its biggest wins, there’s a highly selective rival that’s been quietly nurturing tomorrow’s tech stars. Neo was founded by early Facebook investor Ali Partovi in 2017 to find and invest in top talent while they’re still in college. Take Michael Truell, who was studying at MIT when he became a Neo Scholar.
By Sarah Whitmire Verified| Forbes Verified When I read this week that consumer genetics company 23andMe had filed for bankruptcy, I felt a familiar pang of regret. I am one of 23andMe’s 15 million customers who entrusted the firm with a small sample of my saliva in exchange for health and ancestry information they could analyze from my DNA. After the company’s massive 2023 data breach that impacted nearly 7 million users, this marked at least the second time I wished I’d kept my genes to myself.
By Sarah Whitmire Verified| Forbes Verified If you’ve heard about famed startup incubator Y Combinator, which counts Airbnb and Instacart among its biggest wins, there’s a highly selective rival that’s been quietly nurturing tomorrow’s tech stars. Neo was founded by early Facebook investor Ali Partovi in 2017 to find and invest in top talent while they’re still in college. Take Michael Truell, who was studying at MIT when he became a Neo Scholar.
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