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Sramana Mitra: So you’re a B2C service? Brandon Colby: We have a B2C arm. Our website is a marketplace for consumers. We also work in two different ways in terms of B2B. One is with app developers from bioinformatics companies. These are companies that understand genetics analysis. They create some type of useful interpretation of
Sramana Mitra: Is the popup customized to different clusters of behavior? Debjani Deb: Typically, it’s not a popup. The way it renders is that the website itself changes. You wouldn’t even know that it changed. We try very hard to keep away from any kind of hard intervention. The site is changing based on what
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This is a fascinating conversation on personalized Genomics Analysis applications. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you as well as to the company.
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Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a couple of other use cases. Give me a use case that is online. Let’s do an e-commerce use case. Debjani Deb: Let’s take an e-commerce vendor. You are shopping on Overstock. You have taken the first click. You landed on the first page. You’ve taken the second click, and now