This week, guests Kate Terry from Surround Insurance and Lance Poole from Juniper Labs discuss with Nick how and when legacy insurers should rebrand. We also discussed distribution with aggregators and how insurers should be thinking about how they use these and all other channels.

Kate Terry (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-terry/

Lance Poole (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/lancehpoole/

With Shefi on assignment, Patrick West from b-atomic joined us to bring his perspective on the two news stories we discussed:

- Chubb creates Chubb Studios

- Coterie advertises for agency partnership manager

We spent an hour discussing the challenges of having multiple distributions channels and what having multiple channels signals to the marketplace.

FinTech startup Revolut is hiring a VP of Insurance signaling their entry into insurance. This week, Shefi, Avi and Nick discussed the implications of this to Insurtechs, Insurance incumbents and even to other outsiders such as Amazon and Google. With so many different business models being introduced how should we all be thinking about our strategies? As usual, we don't always agree, but we debate the pros, the cons, the tradeoffs and the implications.

McKinsey/Allstate article: https://www.injurytriallawyer.com/blog/mckinsey-documents-allstate-insurance-unethical-business-practices.cfm

This week Shefi, Avi and Nick discuss:

Coverager exclusives on Hugo Insurance and PolicyGenius (creating unique touchpoints)

Kin Insurance fund raise

Lemonade Quarterly results

Shefi, Avi and Nick are joined by Assaf Wand, CEO of Hippo. We discussed:

ADT/Google Partnership

Progressive testing the Root telematics model

Assaf opens up about his view and Hippo's bet on smart devices and other technologies to form deeper and more meaning relationships (and differentiation) with customers.

This week, Shefi, Avi & Nick debate:

- PURE's new community program to increase retention

- Lemonade looking for acquisitions

- Rocket, fintech encroaching into insurtech

- Agent/broker survey

This week, Shefi, Avi, and Nicksdiscuss:- The Hippo Series E Raise - The Branch Insurance Series A raise - Tesla's potential insurance expansion