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, I had a very interesting conversation about Cybersecurity with Avi Bartov, the CEO and co-founder of GamaSec. GamaSec provides pre-breach services helping commercial lines insurance brokers and carriers to manage risk and provide cybersecurity education to their policyholders.
…they (small, medium businesses) do not have the same budget, they do not have an IT security department, they do not have the IT people in order to solve those security issues. Therefore they are more open to be a target to the hackers.
In this episode, I had the pleasure of hosting Ben Munro. Ben and I talked about delivering commercial insurance via API, about his company--Briza, building a company that service insurance agents and insurance carriers, founding and funding a startup, CX vs. KPI, and Lord of the Rings.
In 2015 or 2016, you didn't have APIs to work with. There was no way to connect back into insurers. For the most part. What you ended up having was a very user-friendly slick website, a very very nice kind of online experience, but it was really a call center that was trying to fulfill those risk placements.
Jake is CEO of Everyday Life Insurance, a Boston-based tech startup that is making life insurance smarter and more inclusive for everyday people. Inspired by the opportunity to use breakthrough technology to improve the financial security of underserved families in the US, Jake co-founded Everyday Life in 2018 with the innovative technologist Dipali Trivedi.
We use technology to make life insurance smarter and more affordable by recognizing that their (consumers) needs are going to change over time, and that we can save them a lot of money by building their own personal plan that's going to adapt as their needs are changing. We call it predictive protection
