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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…

6 min readOct 31, 2020

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

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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…

6 min readOct 20, 2020

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

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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.

4 min readJun 29, 2020

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If your claims software was Tesla.

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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?

4 min readApr 12, 2020

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Corona: Short-term decisions vs long-held beliefs

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Michael Lewis
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The Startup

Corona, commitment and corporate values

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

6 min readApr 5, 2020

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Corona, commitment and corporate values

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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…

8 min readMar 29, 2020

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Could Coronavirus Cure Capitalism?

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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…

4 min readMar 2, 2020

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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.

6 min readFeb 28, 2020

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Michael Lewis

Calling all insurance disruptors

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

2 min readFeb 25, 2020

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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

4 min readFeb 23, 2020

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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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