Hims & Hers
also referred to as: hims
35 statements across 3 episodes · 12 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 11, 2018 by Andrew Dudum · said 413 times in 98 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Harry Stebbings (351), Andrew Dudum (56), George Arison (2), TJ Parker (1), Phil Carter (1), Kevin Hartz (1), Julia Enthoven (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 53 mentions in 1 episode
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Chris Paik: How I Raised $400M; Substack's Broken Business Model; Music on TikTok vs IG | E1011 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Beezer Clarkson: Are LPs Open for Business & Why Do LP Incentive Mechanisms Need to Change? | E1073 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mike Salguero: How I Grew ButcherBox to $600M/year in Revenue; Tips for Influencer Marketing | E998 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 63 mentions in 18 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Hims Founder Andrew Dudum on Hims Going Public, The Reasoning and Benefits of SPACs, The Biggest Misconceptions of Successful Company Building & Wall St's Changing Perceptions Towards Growth and Profitability
- 20VC: Chris Sacca on Coming Out of Retirement To Unf**k The Planet with Lowercarbon, How Chris Evaluates His Relationship To Money Today, Why We Have Bred a Generation of Ass**** Kids, Do VCs Provide Any Real Value and The True Unfiltered Opinion on Faceb
- 20VC: Mike Lazerow on Why How You Operate As a VC Is More Important Than Who You Are and What You Have Done, Why Boards Are More Important for the Entrepreneur than Investor & How The Best Entrepreneurs Prep Their Boards & Extract Value From Them
- 20VC: Ribbit Capital's Nick Shalek on How To Think Through Ownership and Price Sensitivity, When More Money and Pre-Emptive Rounds are Good vs Bad & Investing Lessons from Yale's David Swensen
- 20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th
- 20VC: Jet.com's Marc Lore on How To Assess Human Potential and "The Resume Test", Why Chief People Officer Should be One of Your First Hires and Why We Need a New Type of Venture Capital
- 20VC: MercadoLibre Founder Marcos Galperin on Optimising Decision-Making, Effective Resource Allocation, Growth vs Profitability, Fundraising Strategies and more on the Journey To Build a $72Bn Market Cap Company
- 20VC: Rippling's Parker Conrad on Why The VC/Founder Marriage Analogy is Weird, Why The Notion of Focus, Focus, Focus is Overrated, Why Narrow Point Solutions Are Not Best in Class Products & The Rise of the "Compound Startup"
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 111 mentions in 20 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Why Now Is The Hardest Time To Raise an Institutional Pre-Seed in the Last Decade, What To Do When The Founder and VC Interests Do Not Align & The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds with Gaurav Jain, Founder & Managing Partner @ Afore Capital
- 20VC: Khosla Ventures Founding Partner, Samir Kaul on Why Pro Rata Is A Cop Out, Why He Likes Technical Risk and Does Not Take Market Risk & How To Approach Time Allocation Across The Portfolio In Venture
- 20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- 20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- 20VC: Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks on The Most Important Skill An Investor Can Have, The Right Way To Think About Price Sensitivity & Where Are We At Today; Take More Risk or Less?
- 20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- 20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- Breaking News: Meet First Round Capital's Newest Partner, How To Approach Generational Transition as a Venture Firm & The Dangers of Attribution In Venture
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 32 mentions in 21 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: The Ultimate Episode For Emerging Managers: How To Determine How Big A Fund To Raise, What Is The Right Closing Strategy With LPs & Why We Will Not See The Eradication of Pre-Seed with John Fein, Founder & Managing Partner @ Firebrand Ventures
- 20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- 20VC: Sequoia's Mike Vernal on His Biggest Lessons From 8 Years of Hyper-Growth at Facebook, Why The Strength of Data Moats Is Over-Rated Today and The Challenge of "Overthinking Investments" In Venture
- 20VC: True Ventures' Puneet Agarwal on Why EQ Is Going To Separate The Best Firms In Venture Over The Next Decade, The Negatives of Attribution in Venture & What Makes A Truly Efficient Venture Partnership
- 20VC: Why Startup Founders Have One Core Job, How To Reduce Risk & Increase Probability In Your Startup & Why You Should Not Send A Pitch Deck Pre-Investor Meeting with David Rogier, Founder & CEO @ Masterclass
- 20VC: Figma Founder Dylan Field on The Biggest Mistakes Young Founders Most Often Make, How To Go Slow To Go Fast With Venture Dollars & How The Design Process Will Fundamentally Change Over The Next 5-10 Years
- 20VC: So You Want To Be Acquired? Instacart VP of Corp Dev, Dave Sobota on His Biggest Lessons From 10 Years in Google's M&A Team Working on The Acquisitions of Motorola, Waze & Android
- 20VC: Carta Founder Henry Ward on Why The Best Companies Are Not Product Led But Distribution Led, 3 Requirements Needed For A New Market/Investment To Be Exciting and Why Small Markets Are So Attractive
- 13 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 144 mentions in 30 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: Hims' Andrew Dudum on The Scaling Playbook of The Fastest Growing Mens Wellness Brand, How To Be Truly Innovative In Today's World of Online Marketing & Raising at a $200m Valuation within Year 1
- 20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
- 20VC: Why Raising A First Time Fund Is Like Raising A Seed Round, Why We Need New and Different Fund Models & Why Longevity Is The Most Rewarding Place To Invest with Laura Deming, Founding Partner @ The Longevity Fund
- 20VC: Being A Wartime Leader in a Time of Peace, Why Marketing Channel Diversification Is Like The Life of A Scientist and Why Small and Mighty Beats Loud and Weak with Ooshma Garg, Founder & CEO @ Gobble
- 20VC: Investing Lessons From Observing Doug Leone and Bill Gurley, Why It Is Easier To Be Contrarian As A VC Than As An Angel & What It Takes To Run Tinder's Product and Revenue Alongside A Seed Fund with Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One
- 20VC: Why Warm Intros Are Mostly Dumb, Why Ownership is Built On First Check and 4 Crucial Elements To Make Cold Inbound Attractive with Leo Polovets, General Partner @ Susa Ventures
- 20VC: Why The Engineer Will Replace The MBA As CEO, Why The Peace Dividends From The Autonomous Car Wars Will Generate More Value Outside of Transport & Why Old and Boring Industries Are The Most Exciting To Build In with Avidan Ross, Founding Partner @ R
- 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
- 22 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
Everything said about Hims & Hers, oldest first
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 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 positive
May 11, 2018 bullish
May 11, 2018 positive
May 11, 2018
Hims advertises in SF Giants bathrooms and thousands of gym locker rooms
“When you look at HIMSS, you know, we're in a lot of basic channels, the Facebook, Instagram, TV, and things that are very common, but you'll also find us in thousands of gym locker rooms. You'll find us all of the bathrooms at the SF Giants.”
May 11, 2018 positive
Jan 21, 2021 bullish
Jan 21, 2021 bullish
Jan 21, 2021 bullish
Jan 21, 2021
Dudum: Hims & Hers Went Public With Only 100-150 Employees
“With hims and hers, we're going public in the next couple of days. By the time people are listening to this, we might actually already be public, and the company is about a hundred people, 150 people, and that's incredibly small relative to Traditional Silicon…”
Jan 21, 2021
Jan 21, 2021 positive
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…”
Jan 21, 2021 negative
Jan 21, 2021
Dudum: Startups Should Hire Specialists Immediately After Product-Market Fit
“The moment you have that moment where people are willing to pay for your offering, that's where I believe the specialization is really beneficial because you're talking about experience, brand, engineering, customer service, supply chain, whatever it might be.…”
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 neutral
Hims & Hers will not be first to market in peptides
“You won't see us be first to market in this category. You'll see us when we launch it, feel extremely confident in the clinical protocols, extremely confident in the guardrails, make sure that the supply chain and the quality is done to a level we are, you kno…”
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 negative
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Apr 4, 2026 neutral
Apr 4, 2026 positive
Apr 4, 2026 bullish
Hims & Hers treats over 10,000 patients daily
“So we treat, you know, 10,000 plus patients a day. We're probably the largest healthcare system in the U S. If you actually look at volume of patients treated. And now with recent markets, you know, definitely the largest globally from a digital health standpo…”
Apr 4, 2026 neutral
Apr 4, 2026 bullish
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…”
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Apr 4, 2026 neutral
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