In this episode of Listening, Dr. Christie Long sits down with Joe Spector, founder and CEO of Dutch, to talk about what happens when outsiders bring fresh perspective to veterinary medicine.
From his family’s journey from Uzbekistan to the United States, to his early success building Hims and Hers, and now Dutch, Joe has made a career out of challenging the status quo.
Together, he and Dr. Long explore what it means to open the “walled garden” of veterinary medicine to new ideas, how access to care can evolve without losing quality, and why humility might be the most underrated leadership skill of them all.
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