(Fox Business) The founder and CEO of telehealth and online pharmacy Hims took to social media on Wednesday to encourage anti-Israel protesters on college campuses to continue in those efforts because companies like his will be “eager” to hire them.
Andrew Dudum, who founded Hims in 2017, said anti-Israel campus protesters are making a difference and drew a contrast to other executives who have said the antisemitic demonstrations have made those involved in campus protests unemployable.
“Moral courage > College degree,” Dudum wrote on X. “If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Palestinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working.”
“There are plenty of companies & CEOs eager to hire you, regardless of university discipline,” he added with a link to the Hims careers page.
The New York Stock Exchange with a Hims & Hers Health banner is seen in Manhattan on Jan. 21, 2021.(Reuters/Carlo Allegri / Getty Images)
Moral courage > College degree
If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Palestinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working.
There are plenty of companies & CEOs eager to hire you, regardless of university discipline.…
— andrewdudum (@AndrewDudum) May 1, 2024
Hims provides prescriptions for sexual performance and erectile dysfunction treatments, as well as medications for hair regrowth, weight loss, anxiety and skin treatment. The company rebranded as Hims & Hers after launching the Hers brand to sell birth control pills and medication to stimulate sexual desire in pre-menopausal women.
Dudum’s post elicited a critical response from Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded software giant Palantir Technologies in 2003 and is currently the founder and managing partner of early-stage venture capital firm 8VC.
“Real moral courage doesn’t involve joining a mindless mob, chanting anti-US and other woke pablum, following instructions not to debate or discuss your positions at all yet being indignantly righteous, while large numbers in the mob chant for violence and block Jewish students,” Lonsdale wrote in response to Dudum’s post.
Real moral courage doesn’t involve joining a mindless mob, chanting anti-US and other woke pablum, following instructions not to debate or discuss your positions at all yet being indignantly righteous, while large numbers in the mob chant for violence and block Jewish students.
— Joe Lonsdale (@JTLonsdale) May 1, 2024
Lonsdale’s post criticizing anti-Israel campus protesters echoes the sentiments expressed by a number of other executives and investors.
In the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, which sparked the latest round of conflict in the Middle East, billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman criticized Harvard student groups that signed onto a letter placing the sole blame for the attack on Israel and said the names of students in those groups should be made public so that he and other CEOs don’t “inadvertently hire any of their members.”
