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An AI phase shift in 1 month: How AI Transformed Klarna and What It Means for the Future of Business

jason+PODCAST@jasonkolb.com (Jason Kolb) — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:25:14 +0000

There are not many phase shifts in technology, and I’ve been lucky enough to see several in my lifetime: First the Internet, then mobile, and now AI. We’re starting to see some of the early results from AI now, and here’s an interesting example from this past week–a story that involves 2 different companies. The first company: Klarna Klarna is best known for offering financing on…

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Insurance as an API

jason+PODCAST@jasonkolb.com (Jason Kolb) — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:55:14 +0000

There are moments that transform industries. Inflection points in which the future is less certain, yet everything feels newer. Insurers are in an industry that is undergoing one of these shifts right now. As technology invades a historically slow-moving industry, new possibilities are opening up and new opportunities are being presented. I believe that insurance is going through an “AWS Moment”…

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Insurance’s Stripe and Shopify Moment

jason+PODCAST@jasonkolb.com (Jason Kolb) — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:45:20 +0000

Facebook and Google’s ability to target specific markets completely upended the advertising world. They made it easy to surgically reach your target market. Then came a wave of companies like Shopify and Etsy and Stripe and Square that made it easy to sell to your customers once you’ve reached them. Many of the hottest companies of the past decade have made it easy to sell to your market once…

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3 Breakout Technologies for 2021

jason+PODCAST@jasonkolb.com (Jason Kolb) — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:55:26 +0000

I spent some time thinking about broader trends over the new year, and came up with some predictions for breakout technology in 2021. Writing always helps me clarify my thoughts, so thanks for reading and please let me know what you think! A little enterprise-y probably but you get what you pay for. And a little surprise in the middle! Obviously cryptocurrencies are mooning right…

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My Favorite Management Hack of 2020

jason+PODCAST@jasonkolb.com (Jason Kolb) — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:04:47 +0000

2020 was a rough year for everyone, even for those of us blessed to be able to work from home. Psychologically and emotionally, it’s easy to feel disconnected and lonely when you don’t see people outside your household for weeks and months on end. And this presents some unique challenges for maintaining culture and productivity, and keeping morale up in general. The Challenge When the…

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The new insurance tech stack

jason+PODCAST@jasonkolb.com (Jason Kolb) — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:34:39 +0000

Historically the Insurance industry has been slow to innovate, but COVID flipped the script. The innovations that used to set companies apart (Api’s, quote-to-bind, marketing automation, etc.) are now business requirements, and innovation has moved into new areas. The role of an insurance company is changing. Increasingly, insurance companies are in the business of collecting data about their…

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Small Commercial Insurance Trends In 2021

jason+PODCAST@jasonkolb.com (Jason Kolb) — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:18:41 +0000

Despite the pandemic, small commercial is incredibly hot right now. Most likely this is due to an increased focus on bringing offline processes online, and this is the lowest-hanging fruit available in the small commercial space. This has been a busy sector of the commercial P&C market in the last 9 months. Let’s take a look and see what’s happening in this space. Nobody wants to touch…

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The data edge in insurance

jason+PODCAST@jasonkolb.com (Jason Kolb) — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 01:19:25 +0000

I’ve had the pleasure of being in a few different industries now: call centers, industrial machinery, and now insurance. It’s always interesting to try to observe not just the differences between them but also their similarities. Specifically, the similarities in how these different industries are incorporating data into their vertical stacks. Within insurance, data has probably a more direct…

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Beginnings

jason+PODCAST@jasonkolb.com (Jason Kolb) — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:04:04 +0000

There’s nothing like that new blog smell. Just took the plastic off this thing!

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Digital agencies are the future of insurance

jason+PODCAST@jasonkolb.com (Jason Kolb) — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 21:22:50 +0000

Selling mattresses used to be an incredibly capital-intensive proposition. You needed real estate, a storefront, stock in the store and salespeople. Only a few chains of mattress stores and department stores sold them. Then, the Internet happened. When the now-giant mattress company Casper launched in 2014, they took advantage of the fact that a brick-and-mortar store is no longer…

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