Oct 23, 202646 minS6
Steve Johnson, Founder and Chief Product Officer of insured.io and author of The Insurance UX Survival Guide, joins InsurTechTalk to talk about why claims is where customer experience is won or lost.Steve started as a...
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InsurTechTalk
Hosted by Gilad Shai · business · EN-US
About this Podcast:
Welcome to InsurTechTalk, the premier podcast where industry titans and trailblazers converge to unravel the fascinating world of InsurTech. Join us for insightful discussions, gripping interviews, and thought-provoking analyses with entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and executives at the forefront of the insurance and technology revolution.
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What is InsurTechTalk about?
Welcome to InsurTechTalk, the premier podcast where industry titans and trailblazers converge to unravel the fascinating world of InsurTech. Join us for insightful discussions, gripping interviews, and thought-provoking analyses with entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and executives at the forefront of the insurance and technology revolution.
Who hosts InsurTechTalk?
InsurTechTalk is hosted by Gilad Shai. The show has published 145 episodes to date.
What has InsurTechTalk covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Why Insurance Claims Need a Pizza Tracker | Steve Johnson, insured.io" (23 October 2026, 46 minutes), "Most Brokers Skip the Extra 3 Points of Commission. Here's Why | Duncan Crystal, Herald" (13 October 2026, 27 minutes), and "Why He Gave Away $100K of Caviar Instead of Conference Booth | Daniel Katz" (12 October 2026, 62 minutes).
How often does InsurTechTalk publish?
InsurTechTalk publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 46 minutes across 145 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on InsurTechTalk?
Booking probability for InsurTechTalk is 25%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. InsurTechTalk requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. InsurTechTalk's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch InsurTechTalk?
The strongest fits for InsurTechTalk are Insurance Agencies & Brokers. InsurTechTalk has a business audience.
About the host
Gilad Shai hosts InsurTechTalk, a business podcast with 145 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Oct 13, 202627 minS6Every brokerage has a placement strategy. Then there is the placement reality: where producers actually end up placing business. Duncan Crystal, Co-Founder of Herald, spends his days closing that gap.In Episode 173 of...
Oct 12, 20261h 2mS6Yehuda Daniel Katz got into insurance to fight back against a denied claim that devastated his family. By the time he could act, the statute of limitations had expired. So he studied insurance instead, worked his way...
Oct 12, 202649 minS6In February of 2026, the market wiped nearly $300 billion off software valuations in two days, convinced that LLMs would make traditional SaaS redundant. Nine months later, Michael Nadel, Global Insurance Practice Lead...
Oct 11, 202651 minS6Rick Zullo, Founder and Managing Partner of Equal Ventures, has never lost money on an insurance deal since founding his firm in 2018. When he started, his insurance portfolio generated under $2 million in combined...
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Oct 11, 202645 minS6Golf tournaments, 650 speaker submissions, a free solo rock climber on the main stage, and a room full of insurance regulators that most attendees don't even know exists.In Episode 169 of InsurTechTalk, Nicole Peck...
Oct 11, 202646 minS6Capital, underwriting, distribution, trust. Noam Inbar, General Partner at Viola FinTech, breaks insurance into four layers — and argues AI is commoditizing the middle while making the top layer more valuable than...
Oct 11, 202647 minS6Detection is an arms race you cannot win. That's the core argument InReality Founder & CEO Jeppe Nørregaard makes in Episode 167 of InsurTechTalk, and it comes from someone who spent seven years working on AI-based...
Oct 11, 202649 minS6Half a million bordereaux processed every year. Roughly half of Lloyd's Managing Agents as customers. And a data problem so persistent that Paul Templar has spent 17 years building the company that solves it.In Episode...
Aug 5, 202647 minS6A 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...
Jul 29, 202653 minS6In 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...
Episode #18
We Talk Too Much About Tech and Not Enough About People | Jonathan Crystal, Crystal Venture Partners
Jul 20, 202642 minS6Jonathan 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...
Jul 20, 202646 minS6Everyone 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...
Episode #16
Fourth-Generation Agent Sold — Here's What She Learned About Running an Agency Worth Buying
Jul 11, 202644 minS6Cheri 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...
Jul 10, 202658 minS6Curtis Barton started ALKEME in the middle of COVID with seven agencies and $25 million in combined revenue. Five years later, it is a $350M+ brokerage operating in 35 states with over 85 acquisitions and backing from...
Episode #14
AI as a "Safety Net" for Claims Adjusters: Inside CLARA Analytics with CEO Heather Wilson
Jul 10, 202637 minS6What if AI's role in insurance claims isn't to replace the adjuster — but to be a second set of eyes that never gets tired?Heather Wilson, CEO of CLARA Analytics, joins InsurTechTalk episode 159 to explain how her...
May 24, 202636 minS6AI is everywhere in insurance right now — but is the industry actually ready for it?In episode 157 of InsurTech Talk, Gilad Shai sits down with Jack Siney, co-founder and CRO of FrontRace, to discuss the gap between AI...
May 24, 202640 minS6What if insurance could pay out automatically — no adjuster, no claim dispute, no waiting? Sid Jha, CEO of Arbol, left a career trading commodities at Citadel to build exactly that. In Episode 158 of InsurTechTalk, Sid...
May 24, 202638 minS6Surety bonds are one of the least understood—but most critical—segments in the insurance ecosystem.In Episode 156 of InsurTech Talk, I sit down with Gary Eastman, founder of SwiftBonds, to break down how this “unsexy”...
Episode #10
From Wearables to $100M+ Workers Comp MGA: How Kinetic Pivoted to Claims Oversight Software
May 24, 202657 minS6What happens when your core product works perfectly — but your customers still don't stick around? Adam Price, CEO of Kinetic Comp, joins InsurTechTalk episode 155 to unpack one of the most honest startup pivot stories...
Recent guests
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Steve Johnson
CFO at Parker-Migliorini International, LLC / PMI Foods, Lisbon North Dakota Public Schools
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Dr. Jon Kelly
Lead Pastor, Chicago West Bible Church
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Heather Wilson
Senior Program Manager of Urban & Community Forestry, West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership
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Adam Price
cabinet minister for enterprise, connectivity and energy, First Bank and Trust
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