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 the pleasure of talking with Brian Gaab, Managing Principal at CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer, about innovation and how it drives growth in an insurance carrier. In his role, Brian addresses the disruption of the traditional insurance industry by focusing on implementing new technologies inside the company to make insurance simple, proactive, and personal.
When do you buy, build, or partner?
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
In this episode, Troy Korsgaden and I talk about his latest book, "Inflection point," and his experience consulting insurance agencies and insurance carriers and other life hacks. Troy started his insurance career in 1983. He has instructed and spoken with hundreds of thousands of executives, agents, brokers, and staff members. He authored six books promoting his mission to help the insurance industry to wake up to the radical transformation that is taking place.
Don't put the sale first, don't put the commission first. That comes at the end.
It'll come naturally, it always has. So just be like water, let it flow and as it comes to you serve the customer and then be prepared to offer your product solution.
In this episode, I had a fun conversation with Ryan Mathisen, CEO, and co-founder of GloveBox. We talked about GloveBox, growing up in an insurance agency, MMA, guerilla marketing, and the upcoming GloveBox’s market place.
“Let’s show them the policies that they don’t have”
In our session, Ryan points to the conditions and the “systems” currently in use that make GloveBox’s value proposition so appealing. He adds depth to this with his experience growing an agency in Denver, CO.
In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Foresight's Chief Insurance Officer Emilio Figueroa. Our conversation quickly turned into a Q&A and of an Insurance 101 class.
“…we would maintain the MGU as a distribution platform and just purchase a shell company... then start writing business under that shell as long as we have the the necessary reserves and the correct reinsurance partners to help us.”
