Jared Brier, co-CEO and founder of AKKO joined Gilad Shai to discuss AKKO, Customer and User Experience, Warranty, and BMW Z4.
Gilad Shai and Yann Barbarroux, the CEO of Otonomi, talk about Otonomi and delayed cargo insurance.
Phil Friedman and Gilad Shai discuss iBynd and bouncing back after a major fall
Chang and Gilad discuss the Japanese venture ecosystem, surfing, and the role of CVCs in pushing VCs and entrepreneurs forward.
In this episode, Isaac Espinoza, Head of Reinsurance at Root insurance, a Columbus, Ohio, based car insurance company that recently, October 28th, 2020, went public on the Nasdaq, and Gilad Shai talk about Root, SPAC&IPO, Grand Cayman, Reinsurance, Corporate venture capital (CVC) and investment.
… (insurTech startups) still in growth mode they do operate at a loss just like any startup is more likely going to do. But that's an area where InsurTech's face criticism. That and their rapid growth.
Andrew Johnston joins me from his new abode in Nashville, TN, to discuss InsurTech, investment, and shearing alpacas. Andrew's background is enthralling. He "sold" his Ph.d. to the UN, farmed sea cucumbers in Indonesia, and established Willis Re's InsurTech group.
..when is it [investments in InsurTech] going to burst? The answer is—it's really hard to know because if the terminology or the definition keeps getting wider and wider, then everything that is anything in our industry is going to be captured as an InsurTech investment.
In this episode, Brian Anderson and Gilad Shai talk about investments in #InsurTech startups. We warmed up the conversation with Patagonia (VC) vest and then moved to hotter topics as SPAC, the shift of capital from public to the private sector, 2020, 2021, and Brian Dawkins.
SPAC is just another way of raising capital. I think you can take a thematic view of companies that can't go IPO maybe SPAC is the right way.
