20VC: Hims & Hers: $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue: The Comeback | Why Being Public is 10x Better | The Death of the "Strategy" Hire | Why Performance Marketing is Worse than Brand Marketing with Andrew Dudum
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Episode Description
Andrew Dudum is the Founder and CEO of Hims, the company reshaping consumers relationship to healthcare. It has been a rocky ride over the last 6 months, the company is down 66%, their market cap today is $4.3BN on $2.3BN of revenue. They just bought their largest international competitor, Eucalyptus for $1.5BN.
AGENDA:
00:00 — Why Being Public Is Better Than Private
02:50 — My Advice to The Collisons on Taking Stripe Public
07:15 — How to Hire for the Most Gritty People: The Test
10:55 — How AI Will Reshape All of Customer Acquisition
15:30 — What Did Hims Do That Andrew Wishes They Had Not Done
20:15 — What is the Least Profitable but Most Important Hims Product
27:10 — The $1.5BN Acquisition: Why Hims Bought Their Biggest Global Competitor
33:45 — Why Brand Marketing Beats Performance Marketing
39:40 — The Future of Prevention: Why Your Next Blood Test Should Be Free
46:50 — Disrupting the PBMs: How We Are Breaking the Corrupt US Healthcare System