Jacques Bosch & Piro Vorster: Inversion: Co-founder stories - winning despite the challenges (275)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Inversion specialises in bespoke software development services tailored for the insurance and reinsurance sector. This week Robin Merttens spoke with Inversion's founders, Jacques Bosch and Piro Vorster, and in their conversation they touched on the story behind the creation of the company, and the various secrets to success the founders have picked up by working together. Key talking points include: Founding a company and overcoming unique challenges - both inside and outside the industry Why excellence and expertise are important to Inversion The benefits of having a global, connected workforce Blockchain and AI technology adoption: anything but a trend The value of hobbies: coding and Brazilian jujitsu 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. To find out more about InsTech, our membership and offerings visit www.instech.co or contact us [email protected] Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to any InsTech podcast, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards your CPD scheme. By the end of this podcast, you should be able to meet the following Learning Objectives: Identify which types of technology can survive the trend cycle and become integrated Describe what traits are needed to successfully start and lead a company Summarise how tailored technology solutions can aid any industry with automation If your organisation is a member of InsTech and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 275 page of the InsTech 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 welcome back, Matthew Grant, CEO of Instech here.
0:12.9	Well, in a moment, I'm going to hand you over to our chairman, Robin Mertens, who is going to be talking to Jacques Bosch and Pirovoster, the founders of Inversion.
0:22.5	But before that, I just want to say a big thank you to a couple of our regular listeners who I bumped into this week in London.
0:27.9	Daniel Pink from Insurer Axor Excel. Daniel is a confessed instet addict listening every Sunday
0:33.3	morning. And Jeremy Kleiser Jones from reinsurance company Soldri, who is also one of our
0:38.6	growing audience from Asia, more specifically, Jeremy's case, listening in from Japan.
0:43.1	Now, look, we love doing these interviews, but it really makes my day every time someone tells me they are a regular listener,
0:48.5	particularly when someone's listened more than one. So please do keep telling us what you're doing
0:53.0	and how you're finding us. And also,
0:54.8	have you got any hints for anything you'd like to see or improve that. It's also welcome.
0:58.2	Now, as I'm sure you know, we have a special place in our interstack hearts for founders.
1:01.9	And the founder's journey is never easy. But the success of inversion is even more
1:06.5	significant, given the additional challenges, founder of Inversion that had to overcome.
1:14.0	Now, if you like what you're hearing, or you want to know how we can help you join the collaboration of the curious, then please do contact Robin or I via LinkedIn, or indeed any of us,
1:19.3	on hello atinsTech.com.
1:25.5	So welcome everybody to this week's Instech podcast. With me today, I've got the two founders of Inversion,
1:32.3	Shart Bosch and Piero Volster. Welcome both. Thank you, Robin. It's really great to be here.
1:38.2	We've got lots to talk about, I want to know about your company, Inversion, and I want to know about you,
1:43.5	both as individuals and the story
1:45.6	you have to tell. Let's start by telling everybody a bit about what inversion is. You're a technology
1:50.4	design and build consultancy. Your specialisation is insurance, reinsurance and the hedge fund
1:56.5	industry. And in just five years, you've built a very successful niche business with an enviable
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