Assaf Wand, Hippo Insurance Co-Founder & CEO – Going Public on the NYSE, Reimagining Home Insurance, and Always Doing Right by the Customer

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In this very first episode of the 21 Leaders podcast, Miguel Armaza sits down with Assaf Wand, Co-Founder and CEO of Hippo Insurance (NYSE: HIPO), a revolutionary home insurance company focused on making homes safer and better protected, harnessing the power of data and technology. Founded in 2015, Hippo recently went public on the New York Stock Exchange and has a current market cap ~$3B.

In this great conversation, Assaf and Miguel discuss:

• Why he’s “the worst employee ever” and entrepreneurship was the only career path that made sense for him
• Disrupting the home insurance industry, a sector with a net promoter score of -49, and why over the last century incumbents forgot who is their actual customer
• The importance of listening to your client, collecting feedback, and always doing the right thing by the customers
• Lessons from his evolving leadership approach and the hardest decisions Assaf has ever made at Hippo
• Key questions they ask themselves before making any important decision at Hippo
• Taking the company public via SPAC and some hard lessons he’s learned as a public company CEO
• Reasons behind Tel-Aviv’s success as a hub for entrepreneurship and innovation… A lot more!

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