Hims & Hers CTO: Mo Elshenawy
Show notes
Mo Elshenawy helped put driverless cars on San Francisco streets as President and CTO of Cruise.
Full episode and show notes: https://tryterra.co/podcast/Hims-Hers-CTO-Mo-Elshenawy
Now CTO of Hims & Hers, he joins Kyriakos to explain why rebuilding healthcare is harder.
They discuss closed-loop healthcare, clinical guidelines as code, when AI should remain silent, and whether AI will replace doctors.
Mo’s argument: models commoditize. Data and workflow compound.
At 25:13, Mo introduces Hims & Hers’ new AI weight loss companion.
CHAPTERS
(00:00) The Chessboard That Started It All
(02:22) AI Changed the Cost of Building
(04:17) Healthcare Is Harder Than Self-Driving
(06:13) Twice the Cost. 3.7 Fewer Years.
(09:17) Conviction Before Driverless Worked
(13:47) The Lunch That Changed His Career
(15:25) Healthcare Is Actually Sick Care
(18:03) Write Your Own Onboarding Plan
(19:43) AI Without a Platform Is Demoware
(23:06) Why OpenAI Can’t Close the Loop
(25:13) Hims’ AI Weight Loss Announcement
(28:42) Silence Is a Feature
(31:53) Clinical Guidelines as Code
(33:32) Most AI Benchmarks Are Theater
(36:12) Models Commoditize. Workflow Compounds.
(38:46) AI Will Not Replace Doctors
(44:37) AI Makes Bad Engineers Worse
(48:15) Healthcare Is Still Blockbuster
(52:00) Is Hims Getting Into Peptides?
(54:06) Concierge Care in Everyone’s Pocket
(58:46) AI Destroys the Excuse Not to Build