Hims & Hers CEO Andrew Dudum defended the telehealth company amid a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over its data sharing practices.
In a wide-ranging exclusive interview aired Tuesday, Dudum contended the allegations stemmed from a misunderstanding of how the company is altering healthcare.
“I can’t say much other than the fact that, you know when you’re changing the fundamental understanding of how a traditional system like healthcare works, and you’re rebuilding it in the digital ecosystem,” he told Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I think it takes time for people to understand how to do that the right way, and we’ve worked for many years with the FTC to walk them through that. And I think ultimately they wanted more of a headline than than a real agreement here.”
In July, the FTC, Los Angeles County and Utah filed a lawsuit against Hims & Hers. It accused the company of sharing user health information with advertisers…
