Andrew Dudum is the founder and CEO of Hims & Hers. He explains his decision to enter the healthcare sector and modernize the industry.
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“So, you know, I've been building for a long time, and it was a couple years ago that I really fell in love with the healthcare space, fell in love with the opportunity to help a lot of people, but also to digitize, I think, probably the last multi-trillion dollar industry in the US that really hasn't been touched by technology.”
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