23andMe is low on cash and its stock is worth pennies. The CEO wants another chance | CNN Business - eviltoast
  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    That’s pretty much been their business model from day 1. If they didn’t plan to sell it, there was no reason for them to keep it.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah it was always going to come down to this. You can’t make a lot of money on a business model that involves a selling something only once per customer. Eventually they were going to have to either charge money for data storage or sell what they had.

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        9 months ago

        There was no “eventually”. The whole point of their business was to sell it. They’ve been selling it since day one.