Louw Hopley: Co-founder and CEO, Root: Move fast and stay flexible with embedded insurance (250)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matthew Grant is back talking to another co-founder of a successful technology company. Louw Hopley is Co-founder and CEO of Root which is providing technology to support embedded insurance for companies in South Africa, UK and other countries. Topics include: The advantages of building technology for companies in South Africa What an API really is and how it works The emerging use of Generative AI for writing and testing code Finding your business partner 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: Describe some of the advantages geographical locations have when considering where you should build-a-business Explain the pros and cons of using AI across insurance platforms Identify some of the successes partnering with smaller start-up businesses can bring 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 250 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	Lo, delight to be talking to you today, and you are joining us from somewhere out of the
0:05.2	side, the UK, where I guess it's not quite as warm as it is here in the UK today, but where are you
0:10.0	calling in from?
0:11.1	Hey, Matthew, yeah, I'm phoning in from Cape Town.
0:13.3	Normally sunny Cape Town, but today, I guess it's a few degrees colder than what you'll get
0:16.9	in the UK, so I'm freezing on the side.
0:19.5	Yeah, it's funny. I think you said it was 14 degrees
0:21.4	centigrade, which is 57 degrees Fahrenheit here in the UK. We're at 15 degrees in summer and it
0:26.5	feels really warm. So it's all relative. Love Cape Town in South Africa. It's a lovely place to be
0:31.4	based. But of course, you're working a lot outside of South Africa and in the UK as well, aren't you? We spend quite a lot of time in the UK these days,
0:38.0	as part of our expansion plans, but I guess we'll dive into that a bit later.
0:49.3	Good morning, good evening. Matthew Grant here,
0:51.8	CEO of Insteak and your host for the podcast. Well, a great milestone for us this week.
0:56.4	We are on to our 250th episode of the Instat Podcast. And rather neatly, our first episode ever was launched on the 17th of June 2017.
1:06.1	So that means we've been talking for six years. Well, in the next couple of weeks, we'll also have reached quarter million downloads.
1:12.2	Well, many thanks if you're one of our regular listeners or if this is your first episode, welcome.
1:16.1	And if you like this, we've got some great guests in our back catalogue for you to discover.
1:20.9	Today, I'm talking to Lowe Hopley, co-founder of root.z-8. Now, we love all our podcasts guests, but I have a real soft spot for the founders,
1:28.5	particularly those companies that have survived the early years and have real clients and revenue.
1:33.0	You're going to be hearing about how Lowe and co-founder Johnston met and why they decided
1:36.7	to build a company offering technology for supporting embedded insurance.
1:40.5	We discover why South Africa is such a great place to build a company and what loaners colleagues are up to in the UK. Well, hang in there to the end to find out what we're up to
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