"My friend couldn't pay his deductible and died. I created a health insurance company so that wouldn't happen again." | Chris Gay | Evry Health | Ep. 8

The US health insurance industry is gigantic, often unwieldy, and frequently impersonal and ridiculously expensive. My friend Chris and his co-founders Jay and Mark are changing that.

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My friend Chris Gay is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Evry Health.  Chris started his career at Goldman Sachs but quickly pivoted to his first entrepreneurial venture, Mile Meter.  That was his first venture in the insurance space.  After that he spent time with a venture capital firm but then began to think about health insurance.

As he said to me, “I wanted to create a firm whose plans were right for my family, plans that wouldn’t force people to make risky financial decisions as one of my friends did, a decision which cost him his life”

So Chris and soon his co-founders Jay and Mark created a business plan for a new kind of health insurance business, one that was technology driven but at it core one whose goal is ”to bring humanity to health insurance.”  Imagine that.

Join me in my conversation with Chris as he takes us on his entrepreneurial journey, from idea, to funding through Y Combinator, to nearly failing in the process of scaling, to full funded. 

And then listen as Chris offers an “inside baseball” look at the health insurance industry.  It’s eye opening . . .

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