Avi and Nick discuss Lemonade insuring Pets and Insurtechs using direct mail marketing

This week, Shefi, Avi and Nick discussed:

- Walmart opening an agency

- Allstate purchase of National General

- Lemonade IPO

Smartcar offers auto insurers an api-based, hardware free solution to tackle different challenges including underreported mileage, garaging misrepresentation, and invalid vins. In this episode, I spoke with Sahas Katta, the co-founder and ceo of Smartcar about the different solutions his company offers, the challenges of traditional car telematics programs, and the connected car space.

"Patience, Patience...Power!"- Shefi Ben-Hutta

This week, Shefi, Avi and Nick discuss Health IQ's pivot to the senior market and what that means to other insurtech's abilities to market to younger buyers, Allstate's continual push to eliminate captive agents and the Jetty/Farmers partnership.

Brian Nguyen is the owner of B Nutritious, a healthy food restaurant and meal prep service. We talk about health and wellness, food delivery apps, ghost kitchens and how COVID-19 impacted his place.

In this episode we discuss, the pros, cons, tradeoffs and alternatives of being an MGA or going fulls stack.

This week, Shefi, Avi & Nick talk about Lemonade's IPO

Shefi, Avi and Nick discussed:

Everquote taking a page from Assurance IQ

The Root & Homesite partnership

Shefi, Avi & Nick discussed more insurtech being absorbed by their parent companies as lack of patience plays out. What does it take for an insurtech to get traction and scale? What are the resources required? What are the time expectations?

We also discussed a new pet insurance entry and Avi's hypothesis that pet owners are responsible people and non-pet owners may not be (joking reference...watch the video).

We finished off with a discussion about smart home technology providers and the trend for companies looking to port their products into the insurance space.

This week, Shefi, Avi and Nick discussed:

- The Select Quote IPO

- How the new cyber insurers are bundling insurance and risk management