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Legendary Educator Esther Wojcicki and Former Student Launch $10M A.I. Health Fund

The veteran educator and the mother of the famous "Wojcicki sisters" teams up with a former student to invest in early-stage A.I. health care startups.

What do actor James Franco, former NBA player Jeremy Lin and writer Lisa Brennan-Jobs have in common? They were all students of Esther Wojcicki. Beyond raising future Silicon Valley leaders like Anne and Susan Wojcicki, the educator spent decades pioneering a media program at Palo Alto High School. Watching her students thrive has been “the best gift ever,” Wojcicki told Observer. Now, she’s going into business with one of them.

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Wojcicki is partnering with Mary Minno, a former Google senior product manager and one of her former 10th-grade........

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