For Cyriac Lefort, the idea for his new startup, MyHair AI, came two years ago. The French native was sitting in a hair salon in New York getting a routine haircut when his hairdresser looked at him and said “You’re starting to lose a bit of hair,” Lefort, who is 32, recalls being told.

“He didn’t say that to my friend sitting next to me, just to me,” Lefort continued. “In my mind, I wasn’t balding, and I still don’t think I am. But when someone tells you you’re losing your hair, you buy whatever they suggest.”

So, he bought the shampoo the hairdresser suggested and left thinking that anyone could sell a man anything by telling him that he’s losing hair. “Hair loss is such an emotional topic for men and women,” he said.

That interaction sent him down a rabbit hole where he discovered

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