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InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens

Matthew Grant, Robin Merttens and Paolo Cuomo: The Partners' Centenary Chat (100)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Grant, Robin Merttens and Paolo Cuomo reunite for a special InsTech London Partners’ Chat to celebrate the 100th episode of the podcast. Reflections on the past five years of insurance and insurtech, plus thoughts on what’s next for the industry. Talking points include: How and why InsTech London was created The birth of insurtech Changing perceptions of technology Reducing the protection gap The power of community in insurance If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use, or contact Matthew Grant on Linkedin. Find out what we are up to at InsTech London and sign up to our 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 an InsTech London podcast, or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 CPD hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. Complete the InsTech London Podcast Feedback Survey to claim your CPD time.

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0:00.0

I have to get the magic tennis racket, which zaps them.

0:05.0

Because otherwise going to fly around my head. Hang on.

0:08.0

So, which part of the world are you sat in your car in?

0:11.0

I am near Glastonbury of all places.

0:18.0

Okay, I'm back.

0:21.6

No, I haven't got with the fly. Sorry guys.

0:25.6

Well, if you haven't already figured out, we're doing things a little bit differently for our 100th episode.

0:36.6

This is Matthew Grant, partner at

0:38.6

Interdeck London, host of the Instac London podcast and this week joined by my fellow partners,

0:43.9

Robin Mertens and Palo Cumo. So it is rather ironic that I received an email today that goes

0:51.0

as follows. Matthew, a quick note to say how much I enjoy on your podcasts.

0:55.9

In many podcasts, the host thinks is about them, but the INSTEC podcast stay fresh and interesting.

1:02.9

Well, Alex, I do hope you'll excuse us that for this our 100th episode that we decided to make it

1:08.0

well about us. But if this is your first in-stack London podcast,

1:12.2

then I promise I do normally make my fascinating guess this focus of attention. So please do

1:17.5

check out the other 99, or at least some of them. And of course, not just all these podcasts,

1:23.7

but none of the events will be run, all the advisory work we do would have been possible without our incredible community and network from across the world

1:31.5

incidentally not just London maybe it's time to rebrand anyway a huge thanks to

1:36.3

all of you that have supported us for your time money or just spreading the good

1:40.4

word now Robin and Palo co-founded in the London five years ago. I found them a year later.

1:47.6

More about that in a minute. And Palo's got a real job these days. So whilst you may not be hearing as

1:52.1

much from him, we did manage to grab him so we could have the chance to recall this together,

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