Alex Hearn: Founder & CEO, Slipcase: Information that matters and insights that inform (179)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Alex Hearn, founder of insurance news and insights platform Slipcase, joins Matthew on Podcast 179 to share his experience of growing a successful business. Formerly a broker at Willis, Alex left the company to develop a digital environment to connect insurance industry professionals. The result, Slipcase, is now an established platform collating and sharing information from insurers, brokers, and service providers to 160,000 users worldwide. Alex and Matthew discuss the process of building the company, the technology behind the platform, and the insurance content that is capturing users’ attention. Talking points include: Establishing a product market fit and knowing when to pivot Building a quality proposition for corporate clients What users want - tracking behaviour to establish trends How the pandemic changed consumption habits Podcast or press release - the popularity of different content formats More information on Slipcase is available from slipcase.com and you can contact Alex on LinkedIn. The article mentioned in the podcast, InsurTech freefall – don't look down, is available here. Our latest report, Climate Change Risk Regulation and Measurement: 22 companies to know, is available to download from our website. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech London podcast or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. The Learning Objectives for this podcast are: Summarise some of the potential ways to establish a new business within a product market Identify the key interests for consumers of insurance content and the impact of the pandemic on consumption habits Describe and compare the key advantages for consumers of insurance content between different content formats If your organisation is a member of InsTech London and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 179 page of the InsTech London website or email [email protected] to let us know you have listened to this podcast. To help us measure the impact of the learning, we would be grateful if you would take a minute to complete a quick feedback survey.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome or you've just found us. Well, thank you very much for plugging us in.
0:17.7	Another great episode this week and plenty more in the back catalog by the way
0:22.1	Matthew grant here partner at in state London and we've got over 142,000 downloads now across the
0:28.7	podcast so thank you very much well our founder interviews are always popular and today we have the
0:34.3	person behind the success of an early stage, but increasingly well-known company,
0:38.9	Alex Hearn, founder of Slipcase.
0:41.2	And as you will hear, Alex started his career in a more conventional role in insurance,
0:45.4	but had always wanted to start up his own business.
0:48.0	He took the plunge, and six years later, Slipcase is distributing information to hundreds of thousands of people around the world,
0:55.0	including, by the way, the Instac London podcast. Maybe that's where you found us. Now, we are
0:59.2	very much looking forward to doing more with Alex and his team. We ourselves are publishing our insights,
1:03.6	reports, events, newsletters and interviews every day. And it's very helpful to know what people
1:08.0	are actually finding useful. It means we and our members
1:10.9	stay timely and relevant. And Slipcase helps us do that. And so, by the way, does all your great
1:15.8	feedback. So please do keep that coming. John Kavanagh, formerly global CEO of Brokers,
1:20.8	Willisbury and now chairman of B Capital, is also a big fan of Slipcase. I interviewed John in 2020
1:27.0	and asked him then what it was about Slipcase
1:29.2	that had caught his attention. I bumped into Alex Hearn at an insure tech conference and he's a
1:34.7	very, very smart and intuitive young man with a great view of technology and the manner in which
1:42.3	you can distribute information through markets.
1:45.5	And I just think that the platform that he's building to inform the market in a very, very
1:53.3	focused and targeted way about what's relevant to them is very interesting.
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