MGA Founders Podcast Socotra

In today’s episode, Socotra CEO Dan Woods is joined by Tyrre Burks. Tyrre is the Founder and CEO of Players Health, a risk services and insurance firm that protects athletes and sports organizations with a comprehensive risk management platform.


We talk about:

- What Players Health does and the problems it solves (2:08).

- Transitioning from risk management to insurance (4:01).

- The importance of insurance for sports organizations (4:18).

- Players Health’s tech journey and what they have learned, including the value of starting manual and automating your processes later (11:53).

- Providing insurance to small and boutique fitness clubs (18:42).

- How Tyrre went from playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders to founding the company (23:04).

- The importance of messaging in insurance (31:50).

- What the future holds for Players Health (38:46).


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