Ro
company on 15 shows · 10 statements across 5 episodes · said 103 times in 48 episodes since 2018
20VC 54 
All-In 15 
TBPN 14 
My First Million 5 
Founder's Journal 2 
Lenny's Podcast 2 
Capital Allocators 2 
the a16z Podcast 2 
Acquired 1 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
the Pitch 1 
Cheeky Pint 1 
American Optimist 1 
Top Founders 1 
Big Technology 1
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20VC 54All-In 15TBPN 14My First Million 5Capital Allocators 2Lenny's Podcast 2Founder's Journal 2the a16z Podcast 27 more shows
2026 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
- How Hims & Hers Reached a $4.3BN Market Cap on $2.3BN of Revenue | Andrew Dudum · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The $1B One-Person Company, China’s Pork Crisis, America’s New Weapon | Diet TBPN
- The Truth Behind the “Solo Founder Billion Dollar Company”
- Stripe’s 2025 annual letter
- How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention
- Why AI will dwarf every tech revolution before it: robots, manufacturing, AR glasses from CES 2026
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2025 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- Tucker Carlson and Mark Cuban Debate How to Save America 🔥 | All-In Summit 2025
- Inauguration Interviews: Trump's Talent, Dem Rebrand & more w/ Whip Emmer, Reps Swalwell & Khanna
- REVIEW: HIMS Super Bowl Ad (Controversy)
- What's Happening at SONOS (Total Disaster)
- Alexis Ohanian on TikTok's Frozen Innovation, Gaming Reddit & Sports vs AI
- Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
- The US GOVERNMENT Files (Time for the Truth)
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2024 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- The Dangers of LTV
- Fear Buying AI & Automation Stocks — With Downtown Josh Brown
- Will VCs Invest in Vital Audio's Voice-Based Health Monitoring Tech?
- Alexis Ohanian: The Full P&L Breakdown of the World's Most Valuable Women's Sports Team | E1187 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
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2023 10 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)
- TJ Parker: Building PillPack, The First E-Commerce Pharmacy, to Amazon's $1B Acquisition | E1022 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Scooter Braun on Being Enough, Insecurity, Wealth, Investing, Fame, Marriage and Much More | E1002 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Rick Heitzmann – New York Venture Investing at FirstMark Capital (EP.350)
- 10 AI Startup Ideas in 43 Minutes (#506)
- How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
- E110: 2023 Bestie Predictions!
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2022 24 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
- 20Growth: The Biggest Lie in Startup Growth and Marketing, Why You Do Not Need To Diversify Customer Acquisition Channels in the Early Days & When and How To Build Your Growth Team with Rob Schutz, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer @ Ro
- 20VC: The Memo: What is a Sales Playbook? Does the Founder Need to Create It? Should the First Sales Hire Be a Leader or a Rep?
- #AIS: The Lanby's Tandice Urban on solving healthcare's customer service problem
- 20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Instacart with the Growth Leaders Who Built Them; How Instagram Went from 440M to 1BN, How Twitter Changing Their Signup Flow was a Needlemover and How Removing Card Payment Requ
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2021 18 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: David Tisch on Why Ownership in Venture Does Not Matter, His Biggest Investing Misses and Hits and How His Investing Style Changed as a Result & 3 Core Reasons VCs Pass That Do Not Make Sense
- Andrew Wilkinson On The Secretive Billionaire Who Acquired Burger King | My First Million #185
- 20VC: Evernote & mmhmm Founder Phil Libin on Why We are Beginning a Multi-Trillion Dollar Restructuring of the World, Why Shortcuts are the Biggest Mistakes Startups Make & The Future of Video and The Unbundling of Zoom
- 20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
- 20VC: Annie Duke on Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions, How To Evaluate Risk, The Theory of Sunk Cost in Venture & How to Optimise Both the Discussion and Quality of Investment Decisions
- 20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
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2020 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Alexis Ohanian on Why Now Was The Right Time To Start Seven Seven Six, The 2 Very Distinct Types of Deals In Venture & The Unbundling of Social in 2021
- 20VC: Zach Weinberg on Whether A Company is a Democracy, The Importance of Ownership, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed and How he Approaches Both Risk and Personal Capital Allocation
- 1740 $5m Raised and $600k ARR When Fiverr Acquired, Did Common Holders See Any Cash?
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2019 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
- 20VC: Firstmark's Rick Heitzmann on The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, His Biggest Learnings From The Pinterest Board, 2 Things VCs Can Do To Prepare Their Companies For The Downturn and Why Now Is A Good Time to Be Contrarian and Invest In Consumer
- 20VC: BoxGroup's David Tisch on Whether Concentrated Investing At Seed Works, Do Founders Really Want Direct Feedback and Is It Good For Them & Why Consumer Social Is Interesting Again
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2018 1 mention in 1 episode
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10 statements about Ro, every show
Cuban: Telehealth platforms like Ro and Hims rip off consumers
“If you go to Rose or Hems or those guys, you're getting ripped off.”
Coogan: Ro acts as a reseller for Novo Nordisk products
“So I believe Roe is a white labeling or reselling and really just a portal to the actual Novo product, which probably means lower margins.”
Parker: Digital health startup Ro launched on PillPack's infrastructure
“Actually, Ro launched on our infrastructure.”
Schutz: Paid search failed at BarkBox but succeeded at healthcare startup Ro
“For example, at Bark, paid search was not a thing. It did not work for us. People were not searching for, like, monthly box of treats and toys for dogs. But at Rope, people are looking for all sorts of vacation or treatments for different conditions that they'…”
Ro splits growth and marketing into separate functions under its CGO
“I think for us, you know, we have kind of two separate but equal functions. We have growth, which is more of the performance marketing. They spend the media dollars. And then we have marketing, which owns creative, which owns messaging and insights, kind of th…”
Schutz: Ro requires a founder interview for every new hire
“We still have a founder interview everyone that joins the company.”
Schutz: 14% of Roman ED patients were heavy smokers
“14% of men that came onto the platform for ED were heavy smokers, and it played a large role in why they were experiencing issues with sexual intimacy”
Schutz: Consumers won't pay to quit habits they enjoy
“We learned people don't like paying to stop something that, while they know it is bad, they enjoy it, and they've been doing it for a long time.”
Ohanian: Healthcare startup Ro was a highly contentious early-stage VC deal
“So Roe was an example of a company that like, and actually Z's talked about this, I think publicly there are a number of firms where like, that was a super contentious deal. And when it started, it was a pitch deck and some founders, and you had to believe in …”