InsurTech Geek Podcast

InsurTech Geek Podcast

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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: https://t.co/I0Sthp9IXU

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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?

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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: https://t.co/twTCTtuycn

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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: https://t.co/SW1cNUfgyp

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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: https://t.co/6MmBFnkfYT

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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: https://t.co/lw9xYq5vyb

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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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“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: https://t.co/sAOgmAEdZg

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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: https://t.co/d32YKQ2VKN

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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 https://t.co/5kgbu9Gizo

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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. 🎙️

https://t.co/eOzAdnbC4q

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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 https://t.co/omwlNKH9jy

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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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"Insurance is a get-rich-slowly business."
- Amir Kabir, Overlook Ventures

The most-quotable line of this week's episode and the one that makes sense of the last ten years of Insurtech.

Hear the full perspective on Spotify.

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New episode is live.

@AmirKabir1 (Founding & Managing Partner @ Overlook Ventures) on what the insurtech decade got wrong, where the next $1B outcomes actually hide, and why "liability is getting weird" is an understatement.

https://t.co/4pcWdA5cP4