Episode 13, Season 1: Paul Prendergast, CEO and Founder of Blink Parametric

In the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance podcast 

I was lucky to be joined by Paul Prendergast.  Paul is the CEO and founder of Blink Parametric.  

Blink is a delivery platform that allows insurance industry partners to create parametric solutions.  

In this wide-reaching conversation we talked about:  

• Why Blink runs towards the "fires" solving solutions 
• How parametric solutions reduce the unit cost of insurance 
• Embracing technology to give greater visibility of risk 
• How starting with the end customer can be the wrong approach - blink start with the underwriter 
• Insurance as a social good - we sometimes forget that 
• Why the MVP (minimum viable product) cant work in the insurance space 
• All businesses as technology companies 
• Despite frustration with the speed of change, there is a huge passion, intellectual capacity, and scale in the insurance industry 
• The secret sauce in startups - complimentary teams - Tech is key but it must have sales 
• Why sales is such a dirty word in the technology space 
• How attitudes of successful  Instech startups in 2021 are different to 5 years ago - less adversarial Impact of social media on insurance  
• Insurance is cool - Insuring Elon Musks' rocket! 
• New entrants to insurance don't grow the market unless they solve a new problem or offer a different solution Innovation is about culture, not projects and process 
• How the size of the team impacts innovation 
• What's to stop insurers from being the AWS of insurance platforms 
• Technology first - how incumbents are held back by required regulatory technology changes 
• Innovation in insurance comes from unexpected places 

and so much more.  

Thanks to Paul for being a great guest - I probably had 4 people tell me I had to Paul on the podcast as he is a true innovator and forward-thinking tech and insurance entrepreneur and he didn't disappoint.   

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