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167: The Politics of Fintech - Naby Mariyam The Politics of Everything
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My guest today Naby Mariyam is an achiever.
She is a fintech pioneer, thought leader, advocate for greater diversity of ideas in fin services and tech, and a keynote speaker. Her accolades include:
* Host of #hustlechat podcast
* Finnies – for excellence in business insurtech finalist for 3 years in a row.
* Fintech leader of the year finalist 2021 and 2022
* Insuretch of the year 2021 and 2022 finalist
* Emerging insurtech of the year 2021
* International Speaker at big name events like Forbes, Insuretch insights, Insuretech Connect to name a few.
Naby says she loves salsa dancing, poetry and InsurTech (in that order). When not exploring my side hustles, she runs Coverhero an embedded insurtech start up focusing on evolutionary insurance services focusing on the needs of Millennials and GenZ. Coverhero Launched our First product Hustlecover.com, designed to fill the gap of financial insecurity for the growing Gig Economy and self-employed generation.
Coverhero was selected to the first cohort of Qantas AVRO accelerator program competing with 500 other start-ups. Coverhero was a finalist of the top 15 companies of TechCrunch Start-up Battlefield Australia and recently completed the Plug and Play Insurtech program (Batch 7) in Silicon Valley. Coverhero has been featured in Global Insurtech news, and a range of business and technology media as an emerging start-up in fintech.
Graduating with a Masters of Philosophy in Management at the age of 22, she has 18 years of experience in a wide range of industries across Senior level positions spanning across Academia, Management Consulting, Documentary production, Travel & Destination Marketing and Technology.
Naby's Research background is in social science where she deeply studied human behaviour in her Academic career. She has pressed pause on her PhD to focus on building technology-driven solutions that solve community problems. Prior to her current businesses, Naby has run a few other start-ups, and business ventures working closely with founders and catalysers of innovation in the Australian Start-up Ecosystem.
She has also advised the United Nations Development Project on building start-up ecosystems and designed accelerator programs to drive innovation in developing Nations. Naby was an Australian delegate at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs conference in Berlin in 2017.
In this podcast, Naby discusses:
1. Fintech is a term that didn't exist say 20 years ago. How do you define it and what examples have you to showcase what it does and for whom?
2. The gig economy is definitely the new way of work for many of us in 2023 – from food delivery to freelance writing. It has lots of risks and benefits too. What made you start your two insurtech platforms coverhero and hustlecover?
3. What are the 1-3 biggest challenges you faced starting these fintechs?
4. What is the main ways you were able to find your niche, and scale these businesses – surely finding it sometimes tough going against the major established insurance companies?
5. Some of the trends you anticipate for 2023 in the sector?
6. Take away: What is your final takeaway message for us on The Politics of Fintech?
CONTACT INFO:
LinkedIn (1) Naby Mariyam | LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabymariyam/]
Websites
· coverhero.com [http://www.coverhero.com/]
hustlecover.com [http://www.hustlecover.com/]
Zencastr promo Timestamps:
3:13 Use my special link zen.ai/thepoliticsofeverything and use thepoliticsofeverything to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #MadeOnZencastr
Crowdfunding: 26:40
Interested in investing in Zencastr? go to wefunder.com/zencastr to claim your slice of the Future of Podcasting!
My guest today Naby Mariyam is an achiever.
She is a fintech pioneer, thought leader, advocate for greater diversity of ideas in fin services and tech, and a keynote speaker. Her accolades include:
* Host of #hustlechat podcast
* Finnies – for excellence in business insurtech finalist for 3 years in a row.
* Fintech leader of the year finalist 2021 and 2022
* Insuretch of the year 2021 and 2022 finalist
* Emerging insurtech of the year 2021
* International Speaker at big name events like Forbes, Insuretch insights, Insuretech Connect to name a few.
Naby says she loves salsa dancing, poetry and InsurTech (in that order). When not exploring my side hustles, she runs Coverhero an embedded insurtech start up focusing on evolutionary insurance services focusing on the needs of Millennials and GenZ. Coverhero Launched our First product Hustlecover.com, designed to fill the gap of financial insecurity for the growing Gig Economy and self-employed generation.
Coverhero was selected to the first cohort of Qantas AVRO accelerator program competing with 500 other start-ups. Coverhero was a finalist of the top 15 companies of TechCrunch Start-up Battlefield Australia and recently completed the Plug and Play Insurtech program (Batch 7) in Silicon Valley. Coverhero has been featured in Global Insurtech news, and a range of business and technology media as an emerging start-up in fintech.
Graduating with a Masters of Philosophy in Management at the age of 22, she has 18 years of experience in a wide range of industries across Senior level positions spanning across Academia, Management Consulting, Documentary production, Travel & Destination Marketing and Technology.
Naby's Research background is in social science where she deeply studied human behaviour in her Academic career. She has pressed pause on her PhD to focus on building technology-driven solutions that solve community problems. Prior to her current businesses, Naby has run a few other start-ups, and business ventures working closely with founders and catalysers of innovation in the Australian Start-up Ecosystem.
She has also advised the United Nations Development Project on building start-up ecosystems and designed accelerator programs to drive innovation in developing Nations. Naby was an Australian delegate at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs conference in Berlin in 2017.
In this podcast, Naby discusses:
1. Fintech is a term that didn't exist say 20 years ago. How do you define it and what examples have you to showcase what it does and for whom?
2. The gig economy is definitely the new way of work for many of us in 2023 – from food delivery to freelance writing. It has lots of risks and benefits too. What made you start your two insurtech platforms coverhero and hustlecover?
3. What are the 1-3 biggest challenges you faced starting these fintechs?
4. What is the main ways you were able to find your niche, and scale these businesses – surely finding it sometimes tough going against the major established insurance companies?
5. Some of the trends you anticipate for 2023 in the sector?
6. Take away: What is your final takeaway message for us on The Politics of Fintech?
CONTACT INFO:
LinkedIn (1) Naby Mariyam | LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabymariyam/]
Websites
· coverhero.com [http://www.coverhero.com/]
hustlecover.com [http://www.hustlecover.com/]
Zencastr promo Timestamps:
3:13 Use my special link zen.ai/thepoliticsofeverything and use thepoliticsofeverything to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr professional. #MadeOnZencastr
Crowdfunding: 26:40
Interested in investing in Zencastr? go to wefunder.com/zencastr to claim your slice of the Future of Podcasting!
27 min