Disrupting Pet Care, Saving You Thousands - Joe Spector
4/10/202654 min
As a co-founder of Hims and Hers, Joe helped take a direct-to-consumer healthcare brand public at a $1.6 billion valuation. Now as CEO of Dutch, he is reshaping how pet owners access veterinary care through telemedicine. Joe has spent 15 years learning what it actually takes to build something that lasts, and in this episode, he holds nothing back.
Charles and Joe dig into the real mechanics of building a venture-backed business, from knowing when to burn everything down and start over, to hiring the right kind of crazy, to leading a team through failure without losing them. Joe...
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First 90 secondsCharles· Host0:00
Welcome to The Proven Podcast, where we don't care what you think, only what you can prove. On this episode, Joe Spector, the individual who did a billion-dollar exit at Hims, talks about how Dutch is saving hundreds of millions of dollars for pet owners all over the world through telemedicine. What it's like to go up against a market that doesn't want you there, who the established challenge you, but all that matters is that you're in service to your clients on the highest level. At the end of this episode, you'll know exactly how to leverage pain into systems and turn those into profits as he builds another empire. The show starts now. All right, everybody, welcome back to the show. Joe, I'm really excited to have you on the show.
Joe Spector· Guest0:35
Thank you for having me.
Charles· Host0:36
Absolutely. So for the four or five people who don't know who you are, you've done some pretty radical things. Can you kind of give everybody a debrief of who you are and what you've done?
Joe Spector· Guest0:45
I'm currently the CEO and founder of Dutch. We're the leading telemedicine player for pets for healthcare.
Charles· Host0:55
Mm-hmm.
Joe Spector· Guest0:55
And prior to Dutch, I was one of the co-founders of Hims and Hers, which is a direct-to-consumer healthcare company that I helped start and take public at a $1.6 billion valuation.
Charles· Host1:12
Jesus. So you've done two things. You're saving animals, and you've, you've done a billion-dollar valuation. That's-- it, it's insane. There's a lot of people who can never get to s- to make a hundred grand, let alone a billion. It's, it's a wild thing. What are some of the things that you've run into? Because to