InsurTech Geek Podcast
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"I love awakening people to AI, you can almost see the uptick in productivity."
Paul Andrews, PoloWorks. Nearly 30 years in insurance. Never said this before.
Ep 179 on @InsurtechGeek. This is just the beginning → hubs.ly/Q04l5yc30
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Flight for distribution goes straight down the channel to the MGA at the coalface."
Paul Andrews, PoloWorks.
The soft market playbook, named. Ep 179 on Youtube.
Stream it today → hubs.ly/Q04l7Fb_0
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What’s the most impactful AI use case you’ve deployed in insurance and who owned the initiative?
Business unit or tech team?
Curious what you’ve seen work.
#InsurTechGeek #Insurance #AI #InsurTech
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"In five to ten years, we're going to have metallic friends working around helping us."
Danilo Raponi isn't speculating, he's an early-stage investor in a serious robotics company.
Insurance isn't ready.
Listen complete here: hubs.ly/Q04hHVVx0
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Insurance companies are spending billions trying to become tech companies.
Danilo Raponi (Generali's Head of Innovation) says they'll never make it, it's a focus problem, not a capability problem.
Agree or disagree?
#Insurance #InsurTech
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"It wasn't the hurricanes. The lawyers are what really blew up Florida's property market."
The lesson for every carrier expanding too fast into new geographies: do the underwriting homework first.
Click to listen: hubs.ly/Q04hJ1Kj0
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"Insurance companies keep trying to become tech companies. They're never going to make it."
Danilo Raponi on why focus isn't just a startup principle, it applies to the world's largest insurers too.
Listen here: hubs.ly/Q04hHMxh0
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"Start with the problem, not the solution. That is the fundamental rule."
Danilo Raponi has watched the same mistake repeat at companies of every size.
Watch in the link: hubs.ly/Q04hHWXP0
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"Do one thing, do it properly, do it well."
Danilo Raponi applies the same principle to Generali as to a seed-stage startup.
Insurance companies trying to be tech companies is a focus problem. Episode here: hubs.ly/Q04hHx-p0
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Insurance innovation keeps failing at the same places.
Danilo Raponi, Group Head of Innovation at @Generali, breaks down why and what the rare successes actually have in common.
EP 178 is live! Check it out now.
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🎧 Spotify - open.spotify.com/show/3T1RB0…
📺 Youtube - youtu.be/Ev7xuNMdg3U
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“We’re overestimating AI’s short-term impact but underestimating it long-term.”
Dr. Thomas Kuhnt, CIO/COO at HDI Global SE
The honest calibration from someone deploying it at scale, not just talking about it.
Stream the whole episode here: hubs.ly/Q04fWtyf0
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When underwriters in local markets lead the AI initiative not the tech team the shift has happened.
Dr. Thomas Kuhnt, CIO/COO at HDI Global SE
Ep 177 here: hubs.ly/Q04fWppl0
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“Don’t wait. Experiment. Iterate. This isn’t going away.”
Dr. Thomas Kuhnt, CIO/COO, HDI Global SE
The orgs building AI muscle now are already unreachable.
Ep 177 available here hubs.ly/Q04fVZMj0
#InsurTechGeek #AI
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PhD → McKinsey → CIO/COO of a $10B global insurer.
Thomas Kuhnt on agentic AI, the end of underwriting backlogs & why ops -not IT- must lead transformation.
Ep 177 drops now. 🎙️
hubs.ly/Q04fVVJT0
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Honest question for the insurance/VC crowd:
What's the emerging risk category most underpriced right now and what product would you build to cover it?
No wrong answers. Amir Kabir on the pod this week had a good list.
🎙️Listen now hubs.ly/Q04dmlDP0
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"A brand can be destroyed in 48 hours by a viral moment."
- Amir Kabir, Overlook Ventures
Reputational narrative risk doesn't fit D&O. It doesn't fit liability. And carriers aren't really pricing it yet.
This is just the beginning.
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"Try to find a problem before you find a solution."
- Amir Kabir, Overlook Ventures
The hardest-earned founder lesson in this week's episode. Applies to every AI-first pitch he's seen.
🎙️Listen now.
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"Liability is getting weird."
- Amir Kabir, Overlook Ventures
AI decision-making. Autonomous vehicles. Algorithmic systems. None of them fit today's policies.
🎧Press play.
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"Technology moves in cycles. Risk always evolves through them."
- Amir Kabir, Overlook Ventures
The entire Overlook thesis in nine words.
Discover the full story on Spotify.
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