Episode description
Welcome to the latest edition of the leadership in insurance podcast.
In this week's episode, we were lucky enough to be joined by James York
James is the founder and CEO of Worry + Peace which is a review-led marketplace for the insurance market
In this episode we talk about:
- Why are worry and peace not a comparison site?
- Why would it not want to be
- Why insurance should be brought and not sold
- The inherent danger of comparison sites
- Why reviews aren’t buyer-centric and how Worry + Peace changes this
- It's as important to know why you don’t choose a provider as to why you did
- The quandary of how we judge insurance vs how we evaluate which cover to buy
- The social good of insurance Is the price worth the promise?
- How do we give reviews context? What does a 5-star review actually mean?
- The importance of being mission-led in a start-up
- Failure – the MBA of entrepreneurship!
- Transparency in the new insurance model – the key to success?
- The benefit in networking and operating as an industry to evolve change
- Purpose – why is it important?
- Achieving innovation in insurance means we need to think bigger than insurance
- The need for a generational change in leadership to embrace innovation
- Can you be too profitable to innovate?
- What James has learned from being involved in Insurtech UK?
Thanks to James for being a great guest
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Our host is FinPro Director, Alex Bond
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