InsurTechTalk
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96% of Cyber Failures Are People, Not Tech — Yagub Rahimov, Polygraf.ai (opens the original)
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A few episodes ago, Cheri Martinen revealed that GL policies are now excluding AI-generated content. The question she left unanswered: who verifies whether content is AI-generated when a claim arises? Yagub Rahimov, Founder & CEO of Polygraf.ai, is one of the answers. In Episode 165 of InsurTechTalk, Yagub explains how his AI behavioral control platform addresses the three AI threats insurance companies are not ready for: deepfake claims fraud, shadow AI data leakage, and the context gap that ch
He Built the First Online Car Insurer in 1998 | Jon Kelly, Modern Metric (opens the original)
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In 1998, Jon Kelly co-founded eCoverage — backed by SoftBank and Accel — with a one-line mandate: build the online version of Geico. Eleven months later, with no cloud infrastructure and no playbook, they issued their first policy. It became the first startup to sell car insurance online. In Episode 164 of InsurTechTalk, Jon Kelly — now CEO of Modern Metric — walks through three decades at the frontier of insurance technology: the dot-com collapse that killed his Series C overnight, inventing th
We Talk Too Much About Tech and Not Enough About People | Jonathan Crystal, Crystal Venture Partners (opens the original)
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Jonathan Crystal opened Crystal Venture Partners on November 1, 2022. ChatGPT launched 30 days later. That timing tells you everything about where this conversation goes.In Episode 163 of InsurTechTalk, the third-generation insurance operator, former CFO of Crystal & Company, and Founder of Crystal Venture Partners joins me for a wide-ranging conversation on what he actually looks for in a founder, why he does not believe in InsurTech anymore, and what the industry is completely missing in its o
The AI Race Moved to the Construction Site | Justin Levine, Shepherd (opens the original)
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Everyone talks about the AI boom in terms of compute, models, and software. Justin Levine spends his days thinking about something different: who insures the actual construction of the data centers, energy assets, and projects that make all of it possible.The AI race moved from the cloud to the construction site. And the construction site has an insurance problem. In Episode 162 of InsurTechTalk, Shepherd Co-Founder & CEO Justin Levine — civil engineer turned construction risk manager turned Ins
Fourth-Generation Agent Sold — Here's What She Learned About Running an Agency Worth Buying (opens the original)
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Cheri Martinen never planned to sell her family's insurance agency. Then she took a meeting that surprised her.In Episode 161 of InsurTechTalk, the fourth-generation agent and Managing Principal at OneDigital shares what made the difference — and drops one of the most practically urgent insights of the season: standard GL policies are now excluding AI-generated content, effective April 2026. Most business owners do not know. Many agents do not know either.In this episode:- Why she sold — and why
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