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This Week in Startups

Hims & Hers CEO Andrew Dudum on the future of healthcare post-COVID, starting a company to SPAC’ing in 36 months | E1181

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Check out Hims: https://www.forhims.com
Check out Hers: https://www.forhers.com
FOLLOW Andrew: https://twitter.com/andrewdudum
FOLLOW Jason: https://linktr.ee/calacanis

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0:00.0

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0:46.8

Hey everybody, welcome to this week in Startups.

0:50.6

We've got a great guest today on the program, Andrew.

0:53.2

The student is with us.

0:54.5

He founded a little company that you may have heard of called hymns and hers for hymns.com

0:59.7

for hers.com.

1:01.6

And their ticker symbol is HIMS.

1:06.6

What people may not know is that this company was part of a start-up studio.

1:11.3

If you don't know what a start-up studio is, it's kind of like a weird venture capital

1:18.3

slash entrepreneurship slash incubator where a group of individuals create projects and

1:24.6

then spin them out, try to find people to invest in them.

1:27.3

And typically what happens is these all fail.

1:31.1

Start-up studios have a horrible track record of not working.

1:35.1

But when the more typically one company works and then it becomes so big that it's very

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