Andrew Dudum
19 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 11, 2018 by Andrew Dudum · said 8 times in 4 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: How To Build Credibility with Investors, Employees and Customers, How To Determine When A Stretch VP is A Stretch Too Far and The Right Way For Founders To Think About Dilution with Amol Deshpande, Founder & CEO @ Farmers Business Network
- 20VC: Why Founders Must Use VCs as a Barometer, How to Make Distributed Teams Work Successfully & The Biggest Mistake People Make Early In Their Career with Dylan Serota, Founder @ Terminal
- 20VC: 3 Core Considerations When Investing In Physical Product Co's, Are We In A Direct-To-Consumer Bubble & Why Many Sub $100m Funds Are Moving Earlier and Earlier with Nick Brown, Managing Partner @ Imaginary
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May 11, 2018 positive
Dudum: Pixar's Creativity, Inc. inspired Atomic and Hims' organizational structure
“My favorite book is Creativity, Inc. It's a phenomenal book about the way in which Pixar structures its organization, its teams, to enable as much inspiration, as much creativity as possible, and essentially to destruct any bureaucracy and processes that might…”
May 11, 2018 negative
May 11, 2018 neutral
Hims launched with five employees and scaled with only twenty staff
“When I look back at HIMSS, when we launched the company, there were five people. There were five employees on November first when we launched the company. Those five employees have been working on the brand for about 18 months, and just up until a month or two…”
May 11, 2018 negative
Dudum: Silicon Valley is excessively arrogant about just building websites
“The one thing that irks me, and I think a lot of people is, is the arrogance that the Valley has. And somebody once told me, you know, at the end of the day, we're just building websites. And that's true, right? We are just building websites.”
May 11, 2018
Dudum: DTC brands should create unmonetized marketing inventory instead of bidding
“Create your own inventory. Don't bid on it, right? So go find inventory that doesn't exist. That isn't being monetized where companies are owning very valuable real estate or very valuable time or mind share and work with them.”
May 11, 2018 positive
Dudum: Digital saturation forces DTC brands into physical world marketing
“The reality is, is it is so easy to create a brand digitally today that your customers need to see you. And this is traditional marketing one-on-one, right? You need X touch points for your brand to be digested and thus purchased to be made, right? I think in …”
Jan 21, 2021
Jan 21, 2021
Dudum: Specialized executive talent seeks broader scope than past roles offered
“I think one of the things that I've found is people that have incredible careers of specialization and they've built businesses and are really experts at what they do. They always want to push and prove to themselves that they can take on more ownership. And s…”
Apr 4, 2026 neutral
Apr 4, 2026 negative
Hiring non-startup corporate executives to scale is a mistake
“I think often people as they scale, maybe founders as they scale fall into the trap of trying to hire people that have seen bigger scale than them and are more strategic. And they feel like they've gotten to the point of success where now it's time where they …”
Apr 4, 2026 negative
Food industry is a primary cause of US obesity and mental health crises
“I think there's a huge problem with the food industry. I think the government applying pressure and regulation there is a wonderful idea for people because undoubtedly that's a massive part of the obesity epidemic in the country and also probably the mental he…”
Apr 4, 2026 negative
Hims & Hers was a year or two too slow adopting AI
“I think I was too slow to force the company to invest in completely disrupting their team processes with AI... I think customer care, provider quality, all patient interactions. I think we were a year or two too slow on, on totally changing the model of how pa…”
Apr 4, 2026 positive
Andrew Dudum praises US administration for regulating processed foods
“I think the current administration is doing an amazing job on that issue. I really do. Right. Like the push to eat real food, the push to normalize the fact that all of the ingredients on these labels is garbage. It's chemicals. The push to educate people to a…”
Apr 4, 2026 positive
Apr 4, 2026
Founders should only go public with a 10-to-20-year commitment
“I think if your business is ready from an from a predictability standpoint, and you had a long-term orientation, then I would encourage you to go public. I think those two things have to be true. I think you have to actually be able to predict your business wi…”
Apr 4, 2026 negative
Launching commodity skincare and vitamins was a massive mistake for Hims
“So in the early years you know, I thought just having everything on the platform was how you win. And so we invested in, ah, skin care regiments, and we invested in vitamin supplements, and we invested in, you know, so many things that in retrospect were fairl…”
Apr 4, 2026
Feeling close to losing control is what success feels like
“What I've found at least in running this business is, is if you don't feel like you are getting close to that line, you're probably not pushing hard enough. And so I do think That uncomfortable gut feeling where you're constantly questioning, constantly evalua…”
Apr 4, 2026 neutral
Leaders in growing companies must replace themselves every 12 months
“If you want to continue to scale in our organization or any organization that's growing, You have to realize that your job is changing every 12 months, right? To level yourself up to the next, next highest leverage focus area. In order to do that, you have to …”