Podcasts about Metromile

Dan Preston is the co-founder and CEO of Stand, a brand-new startup property insurer providing homeowners insurance for climate-exposed properties. They're launching with a go-to-market focus on higher-end properties in California—homes that are otherwise unable to obtain affordable rates or any coverage at all due to wildfire risk. Stand claims that their differentiation, as Dan will explain in depth, comes from how they assess fire risk at the individual property level and help homeowners take proactive steps to mitigate those risks as part of the underwriting process.Dan is a seasoned entrepreneur with a win under his belt in InsurTech. He was previously the CEO of Metromile, which went public on the NASDAQ in 2020 via a SPAC merger and was later acquired by NextGen insurance company Lemonade in 2022.Stand recently raised a $30 million Series A, co-led by Inspired Capital and Lowercarbon, and came out of stealth at the end of 2024 to begin underwriting properties.Insurance risk is being priced and managed in ways that no longer match today's realities, and we loved hearing from Dan about how Stand is tackling the challenge.In this episode, we cover: [3:49] Dan's background in computer science and machine learning[7:00] The catalyst for starting Stand[9:22] How insurance companies typically evaluate risk[11:05] Challenges in measuring wildfire risk[17:32] Managing fire-prone communities and the importance of collective resilience[20:53] The role of private firefighters in insurance[22:08] Stand's mission and focus on climate-exposed properties[26:53] Progress since launch and early traction[27:39] Stand's product, technology, and risk modeling approach[33:18] Why legacy insurers have struggled to adapt to wildfire risk[38:35] What "perils" mean in insurance and why they matter[41:47] Stand's $30M Series A funding and future plansEpisode recorded on Feb 11, 2025 (Published on Feb 20, 2025) Enjoyed this episode? Please leave us a review! Share feedback or suggest future topics and guests at info@mcj.vc.Connect with MCJ:Cody Simms on LinkedInVisit mcj.vcSubscribe to the MCJ Newsletter*Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant

Shaun Clowes is the chief product officer at Confluent and former CPO at Salesforce's MuleSoft and at Metromile. He was also the first head of growth at Atlassian, where he led product for Jira Agile and built the first-ever B2B growth team. In our conversation, we discuss:• Why most PMs are bad, and how to fix this• Why great AI products are all about the data• Why he changed his mind about being data-driven• How to build your B2B growth team• How to choose your next career stop• Much more—Brought to you by:• Enterpret—Transform customer feedback into product growth• BuildBetter—AI for product teams• Wix Studio—The web creation platform built for agencies—Find the transcript at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/why-great-ai-products-are-all-about-the-data-shaun-clowes—Where to find Shaun Clowes:• X: https://x.com/ShaunMClowes• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaun-clowes-80795014/• Website: https://shaunclowes.com/about-shaun• Reforge: https://www.reforge.com/profiles/shaun-clowes—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Shaun's background(05:08) The state of product management(09:33) Becoming a 10x product manager(13:23) Specific ways to leverage AI in product management(17:15) Feedback rivers(19:20) AI's impact on data management(24:35) The future of enterprise businesses with AI(35:41) Data-driven decision-making(45:50) Building effective growth teams(50:18) The evolution of product-led growth(56:16) Career insights and decision-making(01:07:45) Failure corner(01:12:32) Final thoughts and lightning round—Referenced:• Steve Blank's website: https://steveblank.com/• Getting Out of the Building. 2 Minutes to See Why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbMgWr1YVfs• OpenAI: https://openai.com/• Claude: https://claude.ai/• Sachin Rekhi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachinrekhi/• Video: Building Your Product Intuition with Feedback Rivers: https://www.sachinrekhi.com/video-building-your-product-intuition-with-feedback-rivers• Confluent: https://www.confluent.io• Workday: https://www.workday.com/• Lenny and Friends Summit: https://lennyssummit.com/• A conversation with OpenAI's CPO Kevin Weil, Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger, and Sarah Guo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxkvVZua28k• Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/• Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/• Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/• Jira: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira• Ashby: https://www.ashbyhq.com/• Occam's razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor• Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, prioritizes intuition, and builds toward a 100-year vision | Archie Abrams (VP Product, Head of Growth at Shopify): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/shopifys-growth-archie-abrams• Charlie Munger quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11903426-show-me-the-incentive-and-i-ll-show-you-the-outcome• Elena Verna on how B2B growth is changing, product-led growth, product-led sales, why you should go freemium not trial, what features to make free, and much more: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/elena-verna-on-why-every-company• The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-ultimate-guide-to-product-led• Metromile: https://www.metromile.com/• Tom Kennedy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-kennedy-37356b2b/• Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/building-wiz-raaz-herzberg• Wiz: https://www.wiz.io• Colin Powell's 40-70 rule: https://www.42courses.com/blog/home/2019/12/10/colin-powells-40-70-rule• Detroiters on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80165019• Glean: https://www.glean.com/• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Kick-Ass-Without-Humanity/dp/1250103509• Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges: https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Simple-Everyday-Parenting-Challenges/dp/0997459301• Empress Falls Canyon and abseiling: https://bmac.com.au/blue-mountains-canyoning/empress-falls-canyon-and-abseiling—Recommended books:• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses: https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-Continuous-Innovation/dp/0307887898• Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love: https://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Create-Products-Customers-Love/dp/0981690408—Production and marketing by https://penname.co/. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.—Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed. Get full access to Lenny's Newsletter at www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe

Shaun Clowes Riffs on Waymo, Legos, and Process Advancement This week, Fareed welcomed co-host Joff Redfern, Principle at Menlo VC and former CPO at Atlassian and guest Shaun Clowes, CPO at Confluent and former CPO of Mulesoft at Salesforce, CPO @ Metromile, and Head of Growth @ Atlassian. This week's Deep Dive drops Wednesday and we're focused on Reddit & Cognition Lab's Devin, but our riff this week is simply a classic happy hour conversation. Fareed, Joff and Shaun cover a wide range of topics dropping some brilliant nuggets along the way. Enjoy! For a summary of their takeaways, join us at UnsolicitedFeedback.co.

When you disagree with your boss, should you let it go or take a stand? How do you lean into your integrity and vocalize your beliefs, especially when you aren't aware of the strength of your own voice? And how do you advise your company to do the right thing, as well?Junna Ro, the head of strategic legal initiatives for UC Legal at the UC Office of the President, has spent decades inhabiting leadership positions in the insurance and tech industry, both as the former general counsel at Metromile and the chief ethics & compliance officer at CSAA. But entering the world of legal without the connections and role models of her law school peers, she also knows what it's like to be an outsider.Join Junna as she shares her passion for diversity, inclusion, ethics, and representation, as well her journey to discovering the power of speaking out and standing up for your convictions.Read detailed summary: https://www.spotdraft.com/podcast/episode-20Topics:Introduction: 1:09Taking a break from legal work and reflecting: 2:22Book recommendations: 9:23Sharing the cultural context of your upbringing: 12:11Existing as both a legal outsider and a legal insider: 15:16Finding the courage to speak up in high-pressure moments: 17:34Defining the difference between ethics and compliance in legal: 23:16Moving into a General Counsel position at Metromile: 26:49Taking a stand against Asian hate: 33:55Advising executive teams on taking a stand on social issues: 39:23Offering advice to leaders about tackling difficult topics: 44:16Reflecting on failures: 44:56Advice for young lawyers: 46:56Connect with us:Junna Ro: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junnaro/Tyler Finn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhfinnSpotDraft - https://www.linkedin.com/company/spotdraftSpotDraft is a leading CLM platform that solves your end-to-end contract management issues. Visit https://www.spotdraft.com to learn more.

Steve Pretre, partner at World Innovation Lab (WiL), takes us on an extraordinary journey from his upbringing in Silicon Valley to becoming a key player in the insurtech and venture capital worlds. He shares the thrilling journey of starting Metromile and leading it through the IPO stage, highlighting some of the biggest challenges of starting an insurtech startup. Steve also dispels the skepticism about corporate venture capital firms (CVCs).In this episode, you'll learn:[3:47] Discover invaluable lessons from the pioneers of the insurtech industry[7:40] The story of Metromile: “I was excited and naive enough to think that we could pull that off.” - Steve Pretre[15:43] Early-stage investing isn't just about funds but also about providing strategic support to startups[22:40] Insights into corporate venture capital and why alignment of goals is paramount[27:18] The importance of staying true to your business vision and not blindly following VC adviceThe non-profit organization that Steve is passionate about: Woodside WildebeestsAbout Steve PretreSteve Pretre is a partner at World Innovation Lab. He is a veteran of multiple successful startups and has deep operating experience across product development, marketing, and strategic planning. Prior to joining World Innovation Lab, Steve was the co-founder and CEO of Metromile, an early innovator that paved the path for the current wave of insurance startups. He also held executive roles at Asurion, leading their mobile applications business unit as the company grew.About World Innovation LabWorld Innovation Lab is a venture capital fund supported by various governments and global corporations. WiL invests in companies looking to expand into new markets. They assist US startups in entering Japan and Asia and support Japanese startups in global expansion. Notable recent direct investments include Algolia, Asana, Automation Anywhere, Auth0, DataRobot, Kong, Mercari, MURAL, TransferWise, and Unqork. WiL also supports established and emerging venture funds. Additionally, they collaborate with corporate investors to enhance innovation through new business creation, startup partnerships, and cultural change. WiL acts as a bridge between startups and corporations in key innovation hubs globally, initially focusing on Japan and the US. Subscribe to our podcast and stay tuned for our next episode.

In this conversation, we chat with Jason Wilk, Co-Founder and CEO of Dave (NASDAQ:DAVE), a US challenger bank that has prevented $1 billion in overdraft fees, and has reached 10 million clients in just four years. Founded in 2017, Dave went public in January 2022 via SPAC that had a market cap of close to $4 billion. As a private company, Dave raised almost $200 million and attracted top investors and personalities like Mark Cuban, Norwest Venture Partners, Financial Solutions Lab, and even Diplo. But entrepreneurship runs in Jason's blood, as he is a 4X founder, as well as, an active angel investor in MetroMile, Eatsa, Air Media, SnapChat and more. He formerly was co-founder and CEO of AllScreen.TV, a technology platform that enabled large media outlets to syndicate their digital content to over 500 publishers. Clients included Vice, Time, CondeNast, AOL, Yahoo and many more and investors included Mark Cuban, Jonathan Kraft, Skip Paul and Y-Combinator.

Benjamin Ensor and John Bean are joined by a fantastic panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of insurtech. Joining us today: * Andy Cohen, President of Snapsheet * Nikki Daniels, Founder and Director of e-Zee Insurance Solutions We cover the following stories: * Insurtech funding bounces back after global downturn * Lloyd's to end insurance coverage for state cyber attacks * Swiss insurtech startup grape picks up €1.7 million to reinvent employee insurance * Lemonade closes on acquisition of insurtech Metromile, promptly lays off about 20% of its staff * Cyclists could be made to have registration plates and insurance All that and much more on this week's episode of Insurtech Insider! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, leave a review on iTunes and every other podcast app. Spread the insurtech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. Follow us on Twitter: @instechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com! Special Guests: Andy Cohen and Nikki Daniels .

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In this episode of Going Live With Good Soil, Emmet Peppers and Matt Smith discuss the negative GDP print and White House redefining recession, Tesla stock rallying and the upcoming shareholder meeting, the closure of the $LMND / MetroMile merger, and more. To learn more about Good Soil: https://goodsoilinvestment.com/ For more updates, follow us on: - Twitter: https://goodsoil.io/twitter - LinkedIn: https://goodsoil.io/linkedin - SumZero: https://goodsoil.io/sumzero DISCLAIMER: https://goodsoil.io/disclaimer

Sign up for my Daily Fintech or Daily Digital Banking Newsletters here. Check out my latest podcast episode below: Welcome to your daily FinTech news! NEWS HIGHLIGHT Jack Ma plans to cede control of Ant Group, the fintech powerhouse closely affiliated with Alibaba, the e-commerce giant he founded. If realized, the move will mark another important turn in Ant's restructuring and power shuffling since China called off its $35 billion initial public offering nearly two years ago. Link here. FINTECH NEWS #mergersandaquisitions Lemonade buys Metromile at 70% below original valuation. Nine months after it was announced, the share-based merger between Israeli insurtech company Lemonade and US insurance company Metromile has closed at 70% below its original value, after a slide in the share prices of both companies. Link here. Equifax is set to acquire Midigator. The terms of the deal, which are undisclosed, will expand Equifax's global footprint in digital identity and fraud prevention. Link here. #payments Viber launches Payments, a new digital wallet for paying bills, money transfers, and buying goods. Payments wallets can be used to make bill payments, buy goods, and transfer money to other individuals. Link here. Kushki received approval from national authorities to become Ecuador's first payment aggregator. This means that Kushki has achieved a new status in facilitating electronic payments. Link here.

Tesla's profits surprise Wall Street, and Amazon buys 1Life Healthcare for $3.9 billion. (0:22) Bill Mann discusses: - Tesla's margins being compressed and STILL being the envy of rival automakers - How Tesla is (and isn't) comparable to Netflix - Amazon using "pocket change" to make its 3rd-largest acquisition (11:40) Jason Hall and Matt Frankel engage in a "Bull vs. Bear" debate over Lemonade, and both wish the AI-drive insurance company would hurry up and close its acquisition of micro-cap auto insurance company Metromile. Stocks mentioned: TSLA, F, NFLX AMZN, ONEM, LMND, MILE Host: Chris Hill Guests: Bill Mann, Jason Hall, Matt Frankel Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Rick Engdahl

As a veteran in the insurance industry, Sean brings nearly 30 years of experience and expertise to Lemonade as Chief Claims Officer. In this role he's responsible for claim handling policies, procedures, and execution across all US and EU territories for Lemonade's full book of insurance products spanning renters, home, pet, car, and life. Prior to joining Lemonade, Sean spent more than 25 years at USAA  holding various leadership positions, the latest being Chief Claims Officer where he had oversight of claim handling for all personal  and small commercial lines of business. During his tenure, the company doubled in size, becoming the third-largest homeowners and fifth-largest auto insurer in the US, all while delivering industry-leading loss adjustment expenses and being consistently recognized as the highest rated in claims service by JD Power.  Highlights from the Show Sean has spent nearly 30 years in P&C, all of which was with USAA where he was Chief Claims Officer, before joining Lemonade earlier this year to serve as their Chief Claims Officer What attracted Sean to Lemonade is a view of being there for customers throughout their life and needs rather than a single product or life moment, the technical capabilities to deliver that, and then the people and culture that embraces change and possibilities Lemonade built its own tech, from the start, from the ground up, and tries to be vertically integrated in their tech, which Sean sees as enabling a lot of advantage to what they can do and how they do it Balancing the outside mindset from Tech and the Insurance expertise of industry veterans is hard, but important so you can have the expertise but still stay open and flexible Lemonade is launching their Car product, which coincided with Sean joining, which is a huge undertaking, but an important one to covering the complete picture of their customers It also represents a big opportunity around telematics, which makes sense given how digital Lemonade's customer base is, which yields a 90% take rate for telematics-based coverage Moving into Car will help Lemonade grow given the premium, but also given the importance to their customers Acquiring Metromile also helps here because of the data Lemonade gains through the acquisition after years of insuring cars and collecting telematics data on them that Metromile brings Lemonade day one Telematics can help with claims by better informing what's happened and how to help as quickly and appropriately as possible Sean's first day on the job, he talked to an adjuster who shared that claims are 70% done by the time she gets it, meaning she can really focus on helping the customer and using her expertise rather than dealing with the administration of handling a claim Sean talked about the shift from being so price-driven to being trust-driven, knowing there's someone who stands with you throughout your life AI is not about people losing their jobs, it's about letting people focus on doing the work that matters and having the space to engage personally rather than being overloaded with process Lemonade doesn't just measure customer satisfaction, but also measures empathy they got from the advocate at Lemonade This episode is brought to you by The Future of Insurance thought leadership series (future-of-insurance.com). Follow the podcast at future-of-insurance.com/podcast for more details and other episodes. Music courtesy of UPbeat Music, available to stream on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and Google Play. Just search for "UPbeat Music"

Sunil Rajamaran is the VP of B2B Marketing at GoodRx. He has also spent time as CMO at Metromile, Head of Marketing at Radiance Labs, and as SVP of Marketing at Replicon, among other roles. In this episode, Sunil shares guidance on how to navigate online vs. offline marketing, how to market to a community, and the biggest mistakes that most marketers make. Whether you're a marketing savant or just getting started in the field, this episode will be riddled with gems and a high number of insights per minute.--- Execs is a show for founders, operators, and pioneers who want to understand the playbooks, frameworks, and tactics that leading tech companies today have used to scale.  To engage further:  Check out the On Deck job board Share your thoughts with us on Twitter:  Hosted by: @eriktorenberg Featuring guest: @subes01Produced by: @jacksonsteger Brought to you by: @beondeck 

Women Who Code Talks Tech: In honor of World Password Day on May 5th, Ashwini Vasanth, Builder at DevRev, talks about why security architecture is important and how to implement it. Women Who Code Career Nav: Prachi Shah, Senior Software Engineer at Metromile, and Elaine Laguerta, Security Engineer at New Relic, talk about how to prepare for a system design interview. Women Who Code Conversations: Sabrina Vega, Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft talks about her career experiences at Microsoft, how her passion for DEI led to co-founding SOMOS, and her advice for achieving a healthy work-life balance.

Twenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the 20VC Episode Page & Podcast NotesRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org David Friedberg is Founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB), a holding company established to solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production. Prior to founding The Production Board, David founded The Climate Corporation, a 10-year journey that culminated in their $930M acquisition by Monsanto. If that was not enough, David is the Founder and Chairman at Metromile and also sits on the board of Soylent, Clara Foods, Tillable, Cana Technologies and more. In Today's Episode with David Friedberg You Will Learn: 1.) Origins: How David made his way into the world of startups and technology from academia and physics? What were David's biggest takeaways from scaling The Climate Corp to $930M exit to Monsanto? How did the exit put pressure on David for all future companies he builds? How does he manage that? 2.) The Macro: Venture + The Economy How does David foresee the impending rate hikes? What impact will this have on venture and the economy? What segment of the market will be first to be hit? Why is growth investing last to be hit? How does early stage play out in this very new environment? How will we see the velocity of capital deployment change in this new period? What does David believe are some of the crucial flaws of the venture model? How does David reflect on his own price sensitivity? What lessons has he learned from deals he has done or missed that have changed his perspective? 3.) David Frankel: The Business Builder What is David's rubrik for business value creation? How has this changed with time? How mentally plastic does one have to be around the time it takes to see margins, unit economics etc change from negative to positive? How does David and the team approach building new companies at TPB? Where do they find the founding teams? How do they incentivise them? How does TPB approach continuous funding for the companies they create? What milestones need to be hit? How do they assess them? How does David approach liquidity with regards to exits for the companies they create? Why does their holding company structure mean they have different incentives to VCs? 4.) David Friedberg: Father and Husband How does David reflect on his own relationship to money today? How has it changed over time? What have been David's biggest realisations on what provides him true happiness? How did having children change his operating mentality? What does being a great father mean to David? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with David Friedberg David's Favourite Book: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Twenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the 20VC Episode Page & Podcast NotesRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org David Friedberg is Founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB), a holding company established to solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production. Prior to founding The Production Board, David founded The Climate Corporation, a 10-year journey that culminated in their $930M acquisition by Monsanto. If that was not enough, David is the Founder and Chairman at Metromile and also sits on the board of Soylent, Clara Foods, Tillable, Cana Technologies and more. In Today's Episode with David Friedberg You Will Learn: 1.) Origins: How David made his way into the world of startups and technology from academia and physics? What were David's biggest takeaways from scaling The Climate Corp to $930M exit to Monsanto? How did the exit put pressure on David for all future companies he builds? How does he manage that? 2.) The Macro: Venture + The Economy How does David foresee the impending rate hikes? What impact will this have on venture and the economy? What segment of the market will be first to be hit? Why is growth investing last to be hit? How does early stage play out in this very new environment? How will we see the velocity of capital deployment change in this new period? What does David believe are some of the crucial flaws of the venture model? How does David reflect on his own price sensitivity? What lessons has he learned from deals he has done or missed that have changed his perspective? 3.) David Frankel: The Business Builder What is David's rubrik for business value creation? How has this changed with time? How mentally plastic does one have to be around the time it takes to see margins, unit economics etc change from negative to positive? How does David and the team approach building new companies at TPB? Where do they find the founding teams? How do they incentivise them? How does TPB approach continuous funding for the companies they create? What milestones need to be hit? How do they assess them? How does David approach liquidity with regards to exits for the companies they create? Why does their holding company structure mean they have different incentives to VCs? 4.) David Friedberg: Father and Husband How does David reflect on his own relationship to money today? How has it changed over time? What have been David's biggest realisations on what provides him true happiness? How did having children change his operating mentality? What does being a great father mean to David? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with David Friedberg David's Favourite Book: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Twenty Minute VC Podcast Notes Key Takeaways Check out the 20VC Episode Page & Podcast NotesRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org David Friedberg is Founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB), a holding company established to solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production. Prior to founding The Production Board, David founded The Climate Corporation, a 10-year journey that culminated in their $930M acquisition by Monsanto. If that was not enough, David is the Founder and Chairman at Metromile and also sits on the board of Soylent, Clara Foods, Tillable, Cana Technologies and more. In Today's Episode with David Friedberg You Will Learn: 1.) Origins: How David made his way into the world of startups and technology from academia and physics? What were David's biggest takeaways from scaling The Climate Corp to $930M exit to Monsanto? How did the exit put pressure on David for all future companies he builds? How does he manage that? 2.) The Macro: Venture + The Economy How does David foresee the impending rate hikes? What impact will this have on venture and the economy? What segment of the market will be first to be hit? Why is growth investing last to be hit? How does early stage play out in this very new environment? How will we see the velocity of capital deployment change in this new period? What does David believe are some of the crucial flaws of the venture model? How does David reflect on his own price sensitivity? What lessons has he learned from deals he has done or missed that have changed his perspective? 3.) David Frankel: The Business Builder What is David's rubrik for business value creation? How has this changed with time? How mentally plastic does one have to be around the time it takes to see margins, unit economics etc change from negative to positive? How does David and the team approach building new companies at TPB? Where do they find the founding teams? How do they incentivise them? How does TPB approach continuous funding for the companies they create? What milestones need to be hit? How do they assess them? How does David approach liquidity with regards to exits for the companies they create? Why does their holding company structure mean they have different incentives to VCs? 4.) David Friedberg: Father and Husband How does David reflect on his own relationship to money today? How has it changed over time? What have been David's biggest realisations on what provides him true happiness? How did having children change his operating mentality? What does being a great father mean to David? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with David Friedberg David's Favourite Book: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

David Friedberg is Founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB), a holding company established to solve the most fundamental problems that affect our planet, by reimagining global systems of production. Prior to founding The Production Board, David founded The Climate Corporation, a 10-year journey that culminated in their $930M acquisition by Monsanto. If that was not enough, David is the Founder and Chairman at Metromile and also sits on the board of Soylent, Clara Foods, Tillable, Cana Technologies and more. In Today's Episode with David Friedberg You Will Learn: 1.) Origins: How David made his way into the world of startups and technology from academia and physics? What were David's biggest takeaways from scaling The Climate Corp to $930M exit to Monsanto? How did the exit put pressure on David for all future companies he builds? How does he manage that? 2.) The Macro: Venture + The Economy How does David foresee the impending rate hikes? What impact will this have on venture and the economy? What segment of the market will be first to be hit? Why is growth investing last to be hit? How does early stage play out in this very new environment? How will we see the velocity of capital deployment change in this new period? What does David believe are some of the crucial flaws of the venture model? How does David reflect on his own price sensitivity? What lessons has he learned from deals he has done or missed that have changed his perspective? 3.) David Frankel: The Business Builder What is David's rubrik for business value creation? How has this changed with time? How mentally plastic does one have to be around the time it takes to see margins, unit economics etc change from negative to positive? How does David and the team approach building new companies at TPB? Where do they find the founding teams? How do they incentivise them? How does TPB approach continuous funding for the companies they create? What milestones need to be hit? How do they assess them? How does David approach liquidity with regards to exits for the companies they create? Why does their holding company structure mean they have different incentives to VCs? 4.) David Friedberg: Father and Husband How does David reflect on his own relationship to money today? How has it changed over time? What have been David's biggest realisations on what provides him true happiness? How did having children change his operating mentality? What does being a great father mean to David? Item's Mentioned In Today's Episode with David Friedberg David's Favourite Book: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Today we are joined by Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, the Co-Founder of Braintrust — the first user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with the highly skilled technical and design talent they need. In this conversation we explore how Braintrust operates, the providers they work with, and how staking Braintrust tokens — BTrust —  help to build trust and build quality of supply in the Braintrust network. Prior to founding Braintrust, Gabe co-founded the home improvement marketplace Modernize.com. Recently he has consulted, advised, and invested in 50+ Silicon Valley startups including Thumbtack, Uber, Surfair and Lendinghome, Metromile and Massdrop. The first five companies he advised raised over $300M in follow-on funding. A full transcript of the episode can be found on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/braintrust/ Key highlights of the conversation We discussed: > How radically dropping for both sides of the marketplace provides incentives to stay on the platform and unlock a whole new type and scale of transactions  > How incentives can be used to make the network perform key value contributions such as referrals, vetting, and assessing the quality of transactions   > How Staking (of tokens) emerges as the new primitive of building trust in the network > Using Web3 without making things overly complicated  > The institutional complexity of building for the web 3: one foundation, 6 service providers, and a community > How SAFT bootstrapping can be used as a new way to valorize an early-stage company versus the traditional ways (discontinuous valuation steps at liquidity events). To find out more about Gabe's work: > Website: https://www.usebraintrust.com/  > Twitter: https://twitter.com/gabelunao  > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabelunaostaseski Other references and mentions: > Jesse Walden, Progressive Decentralisation, a16z:https://a16z.com/2020/01/09/progressive-decentralization-crypto-product-management/ > Outcooperating the Competition: https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/outcooperating-the-competition-42d0223dbb2c > Startup Grind Cape Town hosts Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxj3sMw3QoE > “Seven Startup Sales Sins” by Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxz4jLLm6qI > “How To Scale Your Startup” by Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qirIJp-t0Ng Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/ Thanks for the ad-hoc music to Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://boundaryless.io/podcast-music   Recorded on 11 November 2021.

Gilad Shai and Joe Emison talk about the latest M&A in the insurTech world, Lemonade's acquisition of Metromile. You can read more about it on Lemonade's blog https://www.lemonade.com/blog/lemonade-acquires-metromile/Watch the episode on YouTubehttps://youtu.be/oCfxrZyRZXA

Nigel Walsh is joined by new co-host, John Bean, Client Director and Insurance Lead here at 11:FS, as well as a great panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of Insurtech. Joining us today are: * Ben Jennings, Chief Revenue Officer of Embroker * Nikki Daniels, Founder and Chair at e-Zee Insurance Solutions * Phil Terrill, CEO and founder of SoleSafe We cover the following stories: * Lemonade taps new revenue stream with car insurance launch, and plans to acquire Metromile 4:42 * InsurTech investments across the world soar to record-breaking $10bn 19:11 * Report: Owners' and Founders' Approach to Risk Management Not a Match for Today's Modern Threats 32:54 * The General Awards $25,000 NAACP Powershift Entrepreneur Grant to SoleSafe - insurance for sneakers! 44:27 * Notable, which makes RPA-based tools to speed up healthcare admin, raises $100M at a $600M valuation 55:35 * Amazon-backed insurtech Acko joins unicorn club with $255 million funding 57:25 * Model Who Won 'Miss BumBum 2021' Gets Her Buttocks Insured For £1.3m 58:55 All that and much more on this week's episode of Insurtech Insider! This episode is sponsored by Trustly. What if you could re-imagine payments for the insurance industry? What if you didn't have to rely on old and complex payment services and infrastructure? Instead, what if your payment provider could help create a user experience that stands out? And when it's time to pay out a claim it can do so instantly… to millions of bank accounts across the UK, Europe and North America. Trustly are leading the charge in unlocking the Open Banking payments revolution we are seeing today. Their Open Banking platform redefines the speed, simplicity and security of payments, for more than half a billion consumers across the globe. Visit trustly.com (https://www.trustly.net/) to read more about how they help insurtech companies make payments a key part of their digital-first approach. Subscribe so you never miss an episode, leave a review on iTunes and every other podcast app. Spread the insurtech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. This episode of Insurtech Insider was produced by Irina Andronic and edited by George Sztuka. Special Guests: Ben Jennings, Nikki Daniels , and Phil Terrill.

In this episode of Going Live With Good Soil, Emmet Peppers and Matt Smith discuss Elon Musk selling 10% of his Tesla stock, a potential $TSLA split, the $RVIN IPO, $LCID, and more. To learn more about Good Soil: https://goodsoilinvestment.com/ For more updates, follow us on: - Twitter: https://goodsoil.io/twitter - LinkedIn: https://goodsoil.io/linkedin - SumZero: https://goodsoil.io/sumzero DISCLAIMER: https://goodsoil.io/disclaimer

Welchen der drei Job Möglichkeiten würden wir als 25-jähriger Controller wahrnehmen? Wie steht es um Viacom? Ein Blick auf Zalando und About You mit SCAYLE. Für Luke schauen wir uns noch mal HelloFresh an. Ein Hörer möchte sein Erbe investieren. Klarna kauft das Preisvergleichsportal PriceRunner. Airbnb und Booking denken, dass Corona vorbei ist. Cloudflare überrascht mal wieder mit positiven Zahlen. Wie immer. Philipp Glöckler (https://twitter.com/gloeckler) und Philipp Klöckner (https://twitter.com/pip_net) sprechen heute über: 00:01:43 Coursera + Digital Turbine 00:08:05 3 Job Möglichkeiten 00:13:26 Viacom 00:17:07 Zalando & About You 00:21:36 SCAYLE 00:34:36 HelloFresh 00:42:14 Erbe jetzt investieren? 00:48:31 DataDog 00:50:51 Cloudflare 00:55:31 Klarna kauft PriceRunner 01:01:57 Metromile 01:05:54 Coinbase 01:07:48 Airbnb & Booking Shownotes: fraenk - Der Mobilfunkvertrag per App. Ganz einfach digital und ohne Schnickschnack. Sichert euch mit dem Code doppelgaenger dauerhaft 6GB statt 5GB Datenvolumen im Monat. Alle Infos: www.fraenk.de Kann Zalando gegen Amazon bestehen, Florian Heinemann? https://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/tech/manager-magazin-podcast-zalando-amazon-florian-heinemann-a-37e21fa0-f71d-4b89-884d-d0750b8fdc14 **Doppelgänger Tech Talk Podcast** Disclaimer https://www.doppelgaenger.io/disclaimer/

Metro Mile is one of many stocks that got annihilated by the SPAC bubble burst in late February of this year, and has since fallen 80% from it's all time high of like $20 bucks. On top of that, the company has been hammered by the pandemic as people aren't driving as much these days. So while it's currently trading in the $3 dollar range, I'm very bullish about Metro Mile as a disruptor in the auto insurance industry and genuinely feel it's positioned well in the early stages of its growth ascension to make some much needed noise in an industry that's outdated and quite frankly ripe for disruption! Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/S_YuXObUk5A 2 MINUTE PUMP: The 2 Minute Pump is miniseries of @Disrupting that's hosted by Dana Donovick, Co-Founder of Disrupting. The series features disruptive companies with high growth potential all within 2 minutes (the same time it takes to microwave a burrito). Dana is very active on Twitter, and encourages his audience to tweet questions and comments directly at Twitter.com/DanaDonovick PODCAST: Get your 2 Minute Pump on the go via Disrupting Podcast! Spotify: https://bit.ly/D-Spotify Apple: https://bit.ly/D-Apple Amazon: https://bit.ly/D-Amazon iHeart Radio: https://bit.ly/D-iHeartRadio Google: https://bit.ly/D-Google HOST: Dana Donovick | Disrupting, Co-Founder Dana@Disrupting.news https://twitter.com/DanaDonovick FOLLOW & CONNECT: Twitter: @2MinPump, www.twitter.com/2MinPump Instagram: @2MinPump, www.instagram.com/2MinPump Facebook: @2MinPump, www.facebook.com/2MinPump --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/disrupting/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/disrupting/support

Talent development and HR is facing a new era a year and a half after the global pandemic started. What do experts believe is the future of the working world? With over 25 years of experience covering a breadth of industries and human resources, Mark Gundacker, current Chief of People Officer at MetroMile shares his thoughts on employee satisfaction and corporate transparency in a post-covid world. In this episode, Mark discusses the importance of transparency, communication, employee surveys, and the challenges of remote work. While a company may not be at liberty to divulge everything, Mark explains how having mechanisms in place for open and honest communication between leaders and employees was integral to building employee trust and satisfaction. Listening in, you'll hear Mark identify and break down tools leaders can use to increase leader-employee communication, how remote work models are key to employee retention and recruitment, and why the HR industry must remain adaptable and flexible. Key Points From This Episode: How current Chief of People Officer Mark Gundacker started his career with MetroMile, a revolutionary car insurance company that bases its rates on the miles driven, making car ownership convenient and less expensive Mark shares how the pandemic has shifted corporate strategies for talent acquisition How does MetroMile consider the employee perspective when it comes to adapting to a post-pandemic working world? Why employee surveys are helpful in understanding the pulse of the organization Despite dealing with a global pandemic, Mark shares what structures have remained the same within HR and talent development What is MetroMile's long-term vision for return to work? Mark shares how he measures success and how he's able to tell what's working and what's not How to be an effective leader - do not overlook the importance of data Links: Metromile page Careers page. Leveling Up For more links, visit getmarlow.com/podcast

Hands on impressions of the iPhone 13 models; iOS 15 features to check out; Amazon releases new Kindles; Wyze releases a new camera; Facebook releases new Portals; T-Mobile will do in-store repairs.Listeners ask about getting rid of old gadgets, getting better WiFi in an apartment, unlimited photo backup, which printer to get, best insurance for a Tesla and how to get rid of duplicate pictures.LinksFollow Rich on TwitterFollow Rich on InstagramFollow Rich on FacebookiPhone 13 low light comparisoniOS 15 featuresKindle PaperwhiteKindle Paperwhite KidsMoku Kindle CasesWyze Pan v2Facebook PortalsT-Mobile in store repairsGizmogo to get rid of old gadgetsLaptop Elf to donate old laptopsBetter Wifi with ViloUnlimited $10 a year photo backupHP subscription serviceTesla insurance - Metromile, GabiDuplicate photo appSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hennessy Focus Fund's Brian Macauley discusses Allegiant Air (ALGT) and the longevity in ultra low cost carriers. AMC Theatres (AMC) talks a big game, but will their years' box office numbers actually be enough to become profitable? Kansas City Southern (KSU) is still on track to railway innovation and efficiency by utilizing precision scheduled railroading. How Metromile's (MILE) pay-per-mile car insurance isn't really paying. The Drill Down with Cory Johnson offers a daily look at the business stories behind stocks on the move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prashant is a Vice President at Origin Ventures, joining the firm as Senior Associate in May 2017. He serves as a board director for Origin portfolio company BlackCart and board observer for 15Five, Blueboard, Glimpse, Everee, Pronto, Measured Insurance, and Trala.Prashant started his career at Bain & Company. During his time at Bain, he advised telecom, healthcare, & education clients, but spent most of his time on a large technology client dealing with strategic questions around emerging technologies. After Bain, he joined San Francisco-based startup Metromile in 2012 as the first product manager, building a pay-per-mile auto insurance product. Prashant helped scale the company to over three hundred employees as it took in over $200m in venture capital financing.In this episode, we covered: Politics vs. Venture Value-Add Investing Signs of Product-Market Fit The emergence of the Creator Economy  Chicago's Ecosystem And much more... Please Enjoy!You can find Prashant on Linkedin & Twitter and Origin Ventures on Linkedin, Twitter, and their website.Restaurant Recommendations: RPM, Ema, Aba, Momotaro, Galit, The Spice Room, Vajra, Roister, and Alinea.Manifold Group is a venture holding company based in Chicago with offices in Dallas, Los Angeles, and soon Atlantic Canada. Early stage private investments represent an extraordinary investment opportunity, but existing investment models in the space leave much to be desired.Manifold is a new model for growth in the new economy, designed to create and capture value at the early stage through synergies across its venture fund, incubation and acceleration studio, and advisory firm. Learn more about Manifold at https://www.manifold.group

Julie sits down with Dan Preston, Co-Founder and CEO of Metromile to discuss:- what Metromile is (2:24)- why they went public via SPAC (4:23)- paying for insurance with cryptocurrency (10:39)- the pandemic's effect on car ownership (13:13)- additional insurance offerings (17:06) New episodes every Monday and Thursday!For daily updates on the fintech space sent right to your email, subscribe to the FTT Newsletter HERE.For a more in-depth breakdown and analysis of the fintech space, subscribe to the premium newsletter, FTT+, HERE.Follow us on Twitter:FTT - @fintechtoday_Julie - @julieverhage[Theme Song Credit]

Ouça nosso compilado semanal das principais notícias que aconteceram no cenário fintech no Brasil e no mundo! O Boletim conta com o patrocínio da Conductor, plataforma líder na América Latina em meios de pagamento e Banking as a Service. A Conductor atende as principais fintechs, bancos, varejistas e diferentes empresas, permitindo que ofereçam soluções de pagamento inovadoras a seus clientes. Acesse www.conductor.com.br e entenda melhor como transformar o seu negócio! Nesta edição: - Fintech alt.bank, voltada para o público desbancarizado, recebeu aporte de US$ 5,5 milhões liderado pela Union Square Ventures; - A a55, focada em crédito para empresas com receita recorrente, recebeu um aporte de US$ 35 milhões para financiar as operações de crédito no México (conteúdo exclusivo do nosso parceiro Finsiders, leia mais em http://bit.ly/finsiders_a55 ); - A insurtech novata 180º seguros, que busca desbravar o mercado de embedded insurance no país, levantou US$ 8 milhões; - São divulgadas novas pesquisas sobre a utilização do Pix e informações sobre o impacto do sistema de pagamentos nas receitas dos bancos; - O Whatsapp Pay inicia suas operações no Brasil em parceria com a Visa, Mastercard e Cielo; - A fintech norte-americana Bill.com, adquiriu a Divvy, startup que ajuda pequenas e médias empresas a gerenciar seus gastos, por US$ 2,5 bilhões; - A Bitso, exchange mexicana de criptoativos, levantou US$ 250 milhões em rodada co-liderada pela Tiger Global e a Coatue; - Galaxy Digital adquire a BitGo por US$ 1,2 bilhão; - O Mercado livre revela a aquisição de US$ 7,8 milhões em Bitcoin; - A insurtech Metromile anuncia que irá adquirir US$ 10 milhões em Bitcoin e permitir o pagamento de seguros com o ativo digital ; - O Bank of New York Mellon, já consta como responsável pelo backoffice de 3 dos 8 projetos de ETF que estão sob análise da SEC; - A fintech uruguai DLocal está planejando realizar sua abertura de capital nos Estados Unidos; - No Reino Unido, a fintech Credit Kudos revela resultados de uma nova pesquisa envolvendo o comportamento de jovens usuários do Open Banking no país; - A Austrália planeja os próximos passos além do Open Banking, com a abertura de dados nos setores de energia e telecomunicações. * Entenda mais sobre insurtech e embedded insurance no artigo publicado por Bruno Diniz no link http://bit.ly/BD_insurtech. Estamos também no Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn e Spotify! Siga-nos em: https://www.instagram.com/fintechtalksbr https://www.facebook.com/fintechtalksbr/ https://www.youtube.com/fintechtalks https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/fintech-talks/ https://open.spotify.com/show/2AVngeMgLIO7r8cqwGYBPY

Sarah Kocianski and Nigel Walsh are joined by a panel of great guests to discuss the latest news in the insurance and insurtech sphere. Joining us today are: * Callum Rimmer - Founder & CEO, ByBits * Freddy Macnamara - CEO and Founder, Cuvva.com We cover the following stories in the insurtech and insurance sphere: * Covid claims lead to Beazley profit plunge (03:35) * Oscar Health files for IPO while Hippo in talks to do the same (11:35) * Ex-Uber staffer Ryan Graves to invest $50mn in Metromile (21:36) * Insurtech feels the love with partnerships (29:21) * The revisit of Elon Musk, the insurance man! (38:00) All that and much more on this week's episode of Insurtech Insider! Subscribe so you never miss an episode, leave a review on iTunes and every other podcast app. Spread the insurtech love by sharing or tweeting this podcast. This episode of Insurtech Insider was produced by Hanna Samuelson and edited by Alex Woodhouse. Special Guests: Callum Rimmer and Freddy Macnamara.

Producer Joel is moving on to pursue his own podcast called How To Money full time. He and Clark discuss Joel's venture and the current real estate market for potential landlords. The pandemic has reduced how much we drive and Clark recommends rethinking auto insurance to include companies that charge by the mile (Metromile) and/or track driver distance and performance. The trade-off of privacy for more accurate pricing can reduce costs for you and improve industry pricing practices overall. Want more money advice? Sign up for Clark’s free daily newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanks for listening to another episode of The Indian Dream.Join our WhatsApp group here: https://bit.ly/2LgDN2n As always, Business Munchies is an exploration of business ideas and how they can be leveraged in order to build new businesses or scale up existing businesses. This week, we had an interesting line up of strange ideas, we hope you like them!Timestamps:(0:00)    - Introduction(1:17)    - Clout Kitchens(5:50)    - Virtual influencers(10:25) - High End Ice(14:45) - Cohort Based Learning(24:10) - Transparent Pricing with Car insurance(26:51) - Jewellery Insurance (30:41) - Legal Micro SaaS1. Clout Kitchens: Mr. Beast Burgers launched in 300 locations across the US in a single day. Why can't the same thing be done in India? Create a brand of Biryani around SRK or Salman Khan and give them equity. HRX and Wrogn have already done this with apparel and it's easier than ever to do this with food.2. Virtual influencers: Lil Miquela is not a real person but this virtual persona brings in $12 million in revenue every year. There's no one doing this on a large scale in India. You can also do this for different niches: music, sports, fashion, etc. and use build economies of scale in design/animation, cross promotion, etc. 3. High End Ice: Where does the ice in your fancy whiskey come from? You have no idea, nor do I. I think there's a play to build a high end ice brand bringing assurance of high quality ice to people through a consumer campaign on social media. The main means of distribution would be bars and restaurants. In general, consolidating a disaggregated market can be a large potential business. 4. Cohort Based Learning5. Transparent Pricing with Car insurance: MetroMile and the Good Better Best Newsletter6. Jewellery Insurance 7. Legal Micro SaaS - A micro-SaaS business that helps take away the hassle of super basic and standardised legal documents such as NDA's, Lease Agreements, etc. so that you can just focus on the important parts of running your business. Example: The Legal Capsule

SaaS businesses are ultimately recurring revenue streams, often with significant upfront costs for customer acquisition. Any profit or contribution from an individual customer is only typically generated in the second or third years. In order to be viable they need to have a deep understanding of their business model and, critically, an understanding of the underlying economic viability that allows them to stay on track, make good decisions, manage their costs, manage their cash, and plan for growth. For venture-backed businesses in particular, they ultimately have to unlock capital efficient growth in order to achieve the goals that they've set for themselves and for their stakeholders.Highlights:- In SaaS companies the finance function must be seen as a strategic partner to the business.- Vertical financials looks at P&L and Balance Sheet, while Horizontal Financials look at lifetime value.- Even as you are working to accelerate growth, make sure you’re doing so within a framework that allows you to be capital efficient.In conversation with Stephen Millard and Paul Papadimitriou, our guide to this topic is Carrie Dolan, CFO at Tradeshift, a unicorn in the Notion portfolio. Notion led the Series A in 2009. Carrie has more than 20 years experience as a CFO, in fast growth venture-backed technology companies such as Metromile, Lending Club, and prior to that with Charles Schwab. Read more about this episode: https://notion.vc/resources/saas-cfo-podcast/ 

What you'll learn: Evaluating where data science and machine learning can be applied Complimenting human decision making with algorithms Being aware of impacting existing processes Meet: George Bezerra is a strategic data executive with expertise in Machine Learning and Data Science. Currently VP of Data Science at Frontdoor, he was previously the head of data science at car insurance startup Metromile and spent five years at TripAdvisor where he was Senior Director of Data Science and Analytics. Like many data scientists, George has an academic background, including a Post-doctorate at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. If you have any questions for George, please feel free to reach out via: www.linkedin.com/in/george-bezerra I hope you enjoyed the episode, the best place to connect with me is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand). Please send me a message if you would like me to cover certain topics with future guests.

What you'll learn: Modernizing a legacy data infrastructure and culture Pushing people out of their comfort zone Quick wins while building the long term foundation Meet: George Bezerra is a strategic data executive with expertise in Machine Learning and Data Science. Currently VP of Data Science at Frontdoor, he was previously the head of data science at car insurance startup Metromile and spent five years at TripAdvisor where he was Senior Director of Data Science and Analytics. Like many data scientists, George has an academic background, including a Post-doctorate at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico. If you have any questions for George, please feel free to reach out via: www.linkedin.com/in/george-bezerra I hope you enjoyed the episode, the best place to connect with me is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand). Please send me a message if you would like me to cover certain topics with future guests.

Trent Cooksley, COO and co-founder of Cowbell Cyber joined Shefi, Avi and Nick this week. We discussed Hippo's investment in French insurer Luko, the failed acquisition of Metromile via USAA, bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchain and the bloodthirsty desire of IPO's from the investment class. We also jumped headfirst to discuss cyber insurance and how cyber capacity and pricing has been affected by the pandemic. Outro music - Gathering Crowds by John ScottYouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGbFbDv0gwYAmazonhttps://amz.run/3vcq  

The show kicks off with Alex discussing bitcoin and whether or not it's a platform. Next, the latest on the Section 230 repeal and what erasing this legal shield could do to content platforms and beyond(even Amazon?). Also covered, Facebook acquiring software company Kustomer, Inc., Google penalizing Barry Diller and IAC, and Metromile's SPAC IPO. The show closes with a look at the increased competition between China and the United States. Originally Aired: 12/08/20 00:00 - Subscribe for Tech & Business News Daily 00:19 - Is Bitcoin a Platform 07:04 - Section 230 Repeal 18:37 - Facebook Acquires Kustomer 20:16 - Google vs IAC 24:01 - Metromile SPAC Merger 28:19 - China Getting Bolder

(1) Salesforce joins with Slack, in the battle for the enterprise against big cloud players like Microsoft (0:36). (2) Advances in remote customer service – from cloud-based contact centers to chatbots (4:25). (3) Direct-to-consumer insurance is widening its reach (10:23). Read this 3 Shifts Edition: https://6pag.es/25d32. Sign up to receive free summaries of our deeply researched briefs: 6Pages.com.

In the last episode of Fintech@Haas in 2020, I chat with Mark Fiorentino, Principal at Index Ventures. Index is a multi-stage VC firm based in London and San Francisco and their list of fintech investments is huge and includes; Robinhood, Transerwise, Plaid, Revolut, Metromile, Privacy, Revenue Cat, Nova Credit, Prodigy and Fast. We touch on Index's structure and how it's designed to put the founder's experience first (something he mentions multiple times), Mark's personal and professional journey into fintech and his recent investment in Revenue Cat. Mark talks about areas of fintech he is interested in which include cross border B2B payments, AR/AP tools and solutions for Finance teams. It includes a shout out to one of his favourite newsletters Fintech Today by Ian Kar and Julie VerHage and to Harry Stebbing's podcast. Check out my fintech newsletter here ( fintechacrossthepond.com ) !

Macht der Tatort Unternehmer zu Mördern? Muss Peloton schon Rabatte geben? Und warum kauft Salesforce jetzt Slack? Philipp und Pip diskutieren nicht nur die News der Woche und beantworten Hörerfragen, sondern erfüllen auch den Doppelgänger Bildungsauftrag. AIDA-Modell, Adverse Selektion und Volvo KFZ-Versicherung - was gibt es spannenderes?

General Motors making an interesting play to set up a banking charter, Metromile looking to go public, and the electric vehicle bubble. ***** Wisco Weekly ***** New Business Models for the Mobility of People and Goods. Become a Fan. Soon, become a Member. Subscribe for now. ✌(-‿-)✌

General Motors making an interesting play to set up a banking charter, Metromile looking to go public, and the electric vehicle bubble. ***** Wisco Weekly ***** New Business Models for the Mobility of People and Goods. Become a Fan. Soon, become a Member. Subscribe for now. ✌(-‿-)✌

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We are grateful and thankful that you watch and listen!In this episode of This Week in Coverager Shefi, Avi and Nick debated:- Metromile to go public via SPAC acquisitionMetromile, known for its pay-per-mile feature is an auto insurer who was insurtech before insurtech was in our lexicon. This past week, Metromile announced that they would become a public company via a SPAC acquisition. We discussed what this means for Metromile and how this positions them in what is becoming a crowded area. Was there pressure on Metromile to move due to market pressures? How will Metromile differentiate and position this as Root, Just Auto, Branch, OEMs (Tesla, GM-Onstar) and legacy insurers all compete in this space? Is low-mileage TAM big enough to justify the investment? Lots of opinions and insights in this episode of This Week in Coverager. Outro music - Gathering Crowds by John ScottYouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGbFbDv0gwYAmazonhttps://amz.run/3vcq 

Follow the crew: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Referenced in the show: NYT Article - Politics, Science and the Remarkable Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/us/politics/coronavirus-vaccine.html Show Notes: 0:00 Besties congratulate Friedberg & Chamath for taking Metromile public, Chamath explains a PIPE, Sacks & Jason express their discontent for being left out of the first bestie SPAC 10:59 More positive vaccine news, NYT article on Operation Warp Speed: did the Trump administration nail it? 21:50 How will the COVID experience impact the response to the next pandemic? Morality of challenge trials, hypocrisy of regulatory capture around gambling, drug use, pharma, etc. 35:25 Why innovation has occurred so rapidly on the Internet: Permissionless innovation & lack of regulators, regulation vs. innovation 47:07 Thoughts on ISAs & how they could disrupt overpriced higher education, Dave Chappelle's contract with Comedy Central 59:58 Trump accepts defeat (sort of), Biden's cabinet selections so far 1:06:29 What the besties are thankful for 1:14:50 Peace in the Middle East being achieved by declining reliance on oil, based on resume alone - would Trump have won if not for his antics? 1:21:01 Code 13!

In this episode, Miguel Armaza interviews Steve Pretre, Partner at World Innovation Labs, a US and Japan-based venture capital fund with investors from governments and corporations in Japan and throughout Asia. Steve is also a fintech veteran with particular expertise in the insurance space, having spent several years at RMS and Asurion as an operator and then co-founding Metromile, one of the very first insurtech innovators that leveraged technology to build a better and cheaper consumer product. Steve is an MBA graduate from the Wharton School and holds two bachelor degrees from Stanford University. Steve Pretre Steve Pretre is a veteran of multiple successful startups with deep operating experience across product development, marketing, and strategic planning. In his current role as Partner at World Innovation Lab, Steve works with leading startups in the fintech and insurtech space, including Ladder, PeerStreet, and Unqork. Prior to joining World Innovation Lab, Steve was the co-founder and CEO of Metromile, an early innovator that paved the path for the current wave of insurance startups. He held executive roles at Asurion, leading their mobile applications business unit as the company grew to a multi-billion dollar provider of mobile device insurance sold through the wireless carriers. He was the first marketing and product lead at RMS, which developed predictive risk modeling software that became the defacto standard for pricing and transfer of catastrophe risk for the global insurance industry. Steve holds an MBA from the Wharton School, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar, and holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Stanford University. About World Innovation Lab World Innovation Lab (WiL) is a US & Japan-based VC firm with capital from governments and leading global corporations in Japan and throughout Asia - including Sony, Suzuki, NTT, KDDI, 7-Eleven & others. WiL invests in companies that are ready to scale and enter new markets. The firm helps US startups expand to Japan and Asia, and Japanese startups expand worldwide. Recent direct company investments include Algolia, Asana, Automation Anywhere, Auth0, DataRobot, Kong, Mercari, MURAL, TransferWise, and Unqork. In addition to direct investment, WiL invests in exceptional venture funds - both established and emerging. WiL also works with its corporate investors on evolving their own innovation capabilities through new business creation, partnerships with leading startups, and organizational culture change. WiL acts as the bridge between startups and corporates across key innovation hubs around the globe in driving growth - starting with Japan and the US.

Metromile Enterprise General Manager discusses the data and analytics, tools, and strategies needed to automate claims in today's market and get closer to a touchless claim process.

In this episode of the GrowthTLDR, with talk to Gibson Biddle, who has led product for Netflix, Chegg, and advised companies like Metromile, NerdWallet, and more. We talk to Gibson about why some companies manage to become so successful. We discuss the importance of product strategy, consumer science, and company culture. We get into how consumer science was pivotal to Netflix's success and why Netflix's founder Reed Hastings was so focused on making it a core part of their companies culture. We also get into a live case study to demonstrate how product leaders decide what features to launch and discuss how personal recommendations are why Netflix has become so dominant. Happy Growing!

Shefi, Avi and Nick review Coverager news stories for the week of 5-4-2020. Discussed - AIG, Blackboard, Metromile, Root

Today’s guest is Barney Schauble, Chairman, Nephila Climate, the world's largest asset manager dedicated to weather and catastrophe insurance risks.Barney joined Nephila Capital in 2004 as a Managing Partner and moved to San Francisco in 2010 to set up Nephila Advisors. Barney is the Chair of the Board of Nephila Climate (NCx), and also a Director of Nephila Capital Ltd. and Nephila Holdings Ltd.Barney is the Head of Nephila Labs, where his primary responsibilities include oversight of research and insurtech; he is also involved in investor relations and business development. Barney began working in re/insurance in New York in 1993 as a broker for Marsh and Guy Carpenter. He joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in their Risk Markets group in 1996, where he helped to execute the first catastrophe bond and spent six years working on development and distribution of catastrophe andweather-linked products. Barney joined XL Capital in 2003 and was head of marketing for the weather risk management business.Barney attended Harvard College and received his BA in Economics in 1995. He wrote his senior thesis to explore investing in bonds linked to property catastrophe reinsurance risk. He served as a Director of The Climate Corporation (2007-2012), MetroMile (2009-2011), and Advisen (2014-2016).  He is Chair of the Board of Ceres (a non-profit devoted to sustainable capitalism) where he has been a Director since 2011. He is also an advisor and/or board member of several insurance-related technology companies.In today’s episode, we cover:Overview of Nephila, and of reinsurance, in generalHistory of the reinsurance marketFounding story of Nephila, and Barney’s experience leading up to thatThe nature of Nephila’s work and how it has evolved over timeHow Barney thinks about climate change, and his thinking has evolved over timeBarney’s views on climate risk, and short-term/long-term considerations looking into the futureBarney’s views on the best ways to solveBarney’s work at Ceres, and why it is importantIs the reinsurance market a leading or lagging indicator of climate risk?The role of policyHow Barney would allocate a big pot of money to maximize its impact in the climate fightBarney’s advice for how you and I can helpLinks to topics discussed in this episode:Nephila Climate: https://www.nephilaclimate.com/Swiss Re: https://www.swissre.com/Munich Re: https://www.munichre.com/en.htmlSCOR: https://www.scor.com/enMarsh & McLennan: https://www.mmc.com/World Bank: https://www.worldbank.org/Ceres: https://www.ceres.org/Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures: https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/You can find me on twitter @jjacobs22 or @mcjpod and email at info@myclimatejourney.co, where I encourage you to share your feedback on episodes and suggestions for future topics or guests.Enjoy the show!

“Digital maps are transforming the way brands interact with the travel consumer. Simple navigation has given way to rich interactions and local search based on real-time data.” - LB On this episode of QuestCast, we talk to Paul Goodman, Head of Consumer over at Mapbox, a digital mapping API and developer platform that powers numerous consumer applications including SnapChat, Tinder, the Weather Channel, Lonely Planet, Porsche, Metromile, Tableau, and others. Luke Bujarski (Founder, luft.net) talks to Paul to better understand how maps have evolved beyond basic navigation, and how they are transforming interactions between brands and consumers. We cover the use cases for digital mapping applications in travel, the overall state and opportunity of the location technology market, we cover deep tech including IoT and automation, and the impressive pace of innovation now coming out of the China market. Episode links: * Mapbox Customer Showcase - https://mapbox.com/showcase * Mapbox - https://mapbox.com This episode was recorded on February 13, 2019 in Future of Work. Shared with permission from luft.net – a global research consultancy analyzing the trends and companies shaping the future of human mobility: https://luft.net/questcast/are-digital-maps-the-new-travel-consumer-interface Episode page: https://soundcloud.com/mapbox/are-digital-maps-the-new-travel-consumer-interface Transcript: https://gist.github.com/domlet/162b4624e927f70033946a1d13a1620c

In today’s episode, I chatted to Shaun Clowes, the Chief Product Officer at Metromile and previous Head of Growth at Atlassian.We talked about how Atlassian measured success in the early days and their relentless focus on delivering value. We also touched on why enterprise users are more similar to their SMB counterparts than you think, Atlassian’s land and grab strategy that fueled their expansion revenue and the differences in tackling churn between B2B and B2C companies.This was one of my favorite interviews to date, I hope you enjoy the show.

Season 4 of Product to Product, a podcast for / by product people, is finally here! This season, we’re taking a deep dive into growth and giving PMs practical, sustainable, non-hacky ways to grow your product. First up—Shaun Clowes on why all PMs should be growth PMs. Whereas core PMs own parts of the product, growth PMs own KPIs and experiments. They also tend to be way more data-driven. This new distinction between core and growth PM implies that PMs aren’t as focused on growth as their orgs would like them to be, but our guest doesn’t think that’s helpful. Having worked on both sides, Shaun was the head of product growth at Atlassian before joining MetroMile as their Chief Product Officer. If you liked what you heard, show us some love by rating and reviewing us (5 stars only!) Find us oniTunes,Google Play orSpotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Or get the latest episodes delivered right to your inbox by subscribinghere.

Quali cambiamenti possiamo osservare in ambito automobilistico??
 Non esiste angolo dell’automotive che non stia cambiando la propria struttura: dalla tecnologia della batteria, all’efficienza del motore, ai sistemi integrati di guida automatica. 
In un’epoca che si sposta sempre più verso l’accesso, rispetto al possesso, anche il noleggio cambia con startup come Hurry!; la cybersecutiry si rinnova con Karamba Security mentre 2Hire ti permette di controllare veicoli multimarca con una sola applicazione
. Metromile ti fornisce assicurazioni basate sul controllo del veicolo e l’italiana Insoore usa il crowdsourcing per la constatazione degli incidenti. 
Pirl invece fa detecting dei veicoli provenienti dal retro usando come visore lo smartphone.

We look back on how our experiments have gone in planning better vacations, improving our commutes and going green. We'll discuss what worked, what didn't, and what new tips & strategies we learned. Show Notes 1:25— The Better Show recording goes cross-continental as we celebrate March's recent move to Ireland. 5:50— We dive into our reflections on better vacations. 6:20— March's trip this summer to Madeira and the Azores and how he applied the tip from episode 21 that it's not about the length of the vacation, but about the richness of the experience. 14:05— March's use of Inbox by Google and TripIt. 16:15— March shares his experience attempting to find the perfect gelato.  18:08— How Darren and friends are planning their trip to Portugal next year and purposely building in free days and agreeing to keep plans fluid. 22:30— Ian's upcoming vacation to Disneyland with his fiancee and friends. 24:10— Ian shares a tip about using Disney Tourist Blog to help plan a Disney vacation. 25:50 —How Ian used trash-talking to enhance a golf vacation this summer with his dad. 29:09— Ian tip: Disney FastPass for a better Disney theme park experience. 30:39— We reflect on Going Green and discuss carbon offsets and reducing our carbon footprint by cutting down air travel and telecommuting. 33:20— We discuss e-bikes and March starts his search for a new e-bike. 36:27— Resources for e-bike shopping: ElectricBikeReview.com (and their YouTube channel) & Fully Charged YouTube channel. 38:48— Darren's home gets more insulation in his latest home renovation. 39:49— Tip: Terra Chips 40:40— Ian's 6-month check-in experience with his new Tesla Model 3. 42:25— Tip: ChargePoint app to find electric charging stations. 49:30— Ian shares that he's been eating less meat and recommends the book: Foodist by Darya Pino Rose. 51:32— The awareness of the environmental impact of plastic straws and other single-use plastics. 54:25— We talk about Better Commuting and March shares his challenge in experience trying out Uberpool. 56:42— Darren laments that he hasn't (yet) biked to work this summer. 57:50— Ian's attempts to improve his commute this summer and he describes his experience with MetroMile insurance. 1:01:41— March marvels at how much time he has saved by telecommuting and not having to travel to the office. Mentions Doodle polls to coordinate schedules Inbox by Google TripIt Disney FastPass MetroMile insurance Uberpool ElectricBikeReview.com (and their YouTube channel)  Fully Charged YouTube channel Disney Tourist Blog Terra Chips (just get them and eat them --- amazing!) Foodist by Darya Pino Rose Follow Us Instagram Facebook Twitter Subscribe iTunes RSS Weekly email newsletter Full Episode Transcript Better Show Blog Feedback Email: hi@bettershow.io Enjoy the show? Leave a review in iTunes! Tell two friends about the show!

User activation is an important part of any growth function, but many startups fail to focus on this area. Shaun Clowes, former Head of Growth and Model at Atlassian and current Chief Product Officer at MetroMile, was tasked with building the growth function from the ground up for Atlassian's Jira product. He discusses the primary activation metrics they used and how those metrics shifted as the business scaled. Learn how to define you own activation metrics and how to create an onboarding flow that will keep users coming back to your product in this episode of BUILD.

[Network Series] Matt, the VP of Product Design at Metromile, and Prashant talk about design philosophy, effective design impact, breaking into a design career, hiring and managing a design org, and Matt's personal victories and challenges.

Shaun Clowes, VP of Product Management at Metromile and former Head of Growth at Atlassian, believes meaningful growth is fundamentally a product-related exercise. In this episode, he explains why activation is an ongoing challenge, shares his most successful retention strategies, and much more.

Metromile, a provider of pay-per-mile for insurance, raised a whopping $191.5 million in funding last year empowering the insurance disrupter to acquire a carrier called Mosaic Insurance to handle the underwriting of its policies.  Join us when Dan Preston, CEO of Metromile, explains how the firm’s next chapter of growth will involve the marriage of new and old talent competencies as Metromile advances its on-demand offerings into new geographies and further enhances its high tech pedigree with seasoned insurance industry talent.