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Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis

Could old, slow financial services firms out-compete the likes of Amazon?

When I was a schoolboy, I would make a little extra pocket money by buying Creme Eggs in bulk from the local cash & carry and then sell…

Oct 31, 2020

Could old, slow financial services firms out-compete the likes of Amazon?

Oct 31, 2020

Michael Lewis

Everyone rated horses highly until Henry Ford created the first motor car

Ask any customer about their experience of having to make an insurance claim and you’ll hear a horror story, but ask any insurer about how…

Oct 20, 2020

Everyone rated horses highly until Henry Ford created the first motor car

Oct 20, 2020

Michael Lewis

If your claims software was Tesla.

Whilst Toyota are Tesla are both cars, one is a set of wheels with computing added on-top. The other is a computer on a set of wheels.

Jun 29, 2020

If your claims software was Tesla.

Jun 29, 2020

Michael Lewis

Corona: Short-term decisions vs long-held beliefs

Covid 19 asks some difficult questions. Do we believe in individualism or collectivism? And can politics help us find a way out?

Apr 12, 2020

Corona: Short-term decisions vs long-held beliefs

Apr 12, 2020

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Corona, commitment and corporate values

Companies have adopted policies they neither believe in nor value. Corona gives us a chance to pause and reflect

Apr 5, 2020

Corona, commitment and corporate values

Apr 5, 2020

Michael Lewis

Could Coronavirus Cure Capitalism?

The Great Depression of 1929, the Oil Crisis of 1973 or the Financial Crash in 2008 were events that created sudden, economic shocks…

Mar 29, 2020

Could Coronavirus Cure Capitalism?

Mar 29, 2020

Michael Lewis
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The Startup

It can be lonely at the top, but liberating when you climb down

You are a brilliant founder, but that doesn’t mean you need to absorb the pressure of being all things to all people all of the time…

Mar 2, 2020

Mar 2, 2020

Michael Lewis

Insurance Claims-as-a-Service

It’s almost 3 years since my co-founder and I decided to act on disrupting insurance claims. That’s a lifetime in insurtech.

Feb 28, 2020

Feb 28, 2020

Michael Lewis

Calling all insurance disruptors

Insurance is reactive, static, safe, slow and clunky whereas disruption is proactive, dynamic, risky, fast, creative and sexy.

Feb 25, 2020

Feb 25, 2020

Michael Lewis
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The Startup

Speed-driven development

Speed-driven development is a paradigm shift for product teams and how we approach software development

Feb 23, 2020

Feb 23, 2020

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis

My life’s work has been exploring how we re-evaluate our belief in how companies ought to work and start thinking “upside down” instead.

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