Working Girl’s Guide #45: 23andMe is selling our data and The Ordinary is selling eggs

23andMe is a goner, I’m learning how to care for curly hair (only took me almost 3 decades), and Apple TV is losing billions. Let’s get into it.

23andMe went bankrupt, and now they’re selling our genetic info

The genetic giant was valued at $6 billion in 2021, and it’s since lost 99% (!) of its value. Remembering that next time I feel bad about making a professional mistake. So what does this mean? They’re hoping to sell the company, which would include selling a whole bunch of data; California Attorney General has strongly recommended the company delete personal data. If you’ve used 23andMe and feel spooked about your data getting sold, here’s how to delete it permanently.

Omelets are the new luxury item

From The Ordinary selling eggs below market rate to border security seizing eggs at the US-Mexico border, our nation is boiling over with egg fever. Thanks to widespread avian flu, inflation, and an outdated supply chain, egg prices keep climbing. To be fair, they fell slightly in March—but eggsperts (so sorry) say they’ll climb again thanks to high demand around Easter and Passover.

Apple TV+ is losing $1 billion per year

But that’s (shockingly) as planned. They’ve spent more than $5 billion per year on content—and while much of that has helped them achieve nearly 1% of monthly TV viewership (sounds like small potatoes, but 45 million subscribers is nothing to sneeze at), they’ve also made some big mistakes, like spending $200M on spy action-comedy Argylle (haven’t seen it? Eactly). Disney+ has almost 3x the subscribers — but they’ve lost more than $11 billion since they launched 5 years ago.

Back from Hawaii, and let me just say: Sunday scaries were very real this week. Will I be hiking again any time soon? No. But bae and I will definitely be back in Hawaii asap. Side note, I rocked the curly hair all week (which I got some love for on IG). I am now questioning my entire personality! Keep the curly hair recs coming, might lean in.

I firmly believe that every girl needs a white linen skirt. I wear this all the time—with a tee on weekends, a sweater or blazer for work, and of course here on vacation! This one’s from DISSH, an Australian brand I’ve been loving lately. It’s in stock in white, but there’s also one left in a size 10 for 50% off in the prettiest lemon color—can someone snag it please?

Want to uplevel your leadership game without diving into a 10-week course or cramming boring case studies? Toss The Making of a Manager in your beach tote and call it a productivity win. I read it poolside in Hawaii between sips of a piña colada, and honestly, I learned SO much. Every few pages I was tapping my mans on the shoulder to mansplain a lesson I learned from author Julie Zhuo. It’s breezy, smart, and makes complex management advice feel like a conversation with your work bestie. You’ll finish it feeling 10x more confident. And it’s entertaining, too—truly, I was not expecting to enjoy it as much as I did.

Apartment brawls, terrifying dad dreams, and getting ghosted by your boss—it’s just another week on Demoted! This week, Ross recounts the details of his birthing class and the horrifying expecting father nightmare that ensued. I’m officially cohabitating, and may or may not have hosted a fight night at my new apartment (can’t wait to tell you about it). Plus, we’re dishing out some seriously questionable sleep advice, discussing the perils of losing control of your remote team, and tackling a listener’s desperate question about being ghosted by their manager. Get ready for the debut of TWO new segments: “This Guy is About to Be a Father” and “Which Host Wrote This?” Listen here.

Thanks for reading!