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# Purple Ponderings w/ Pankaj: Episode 4 – Interview with Hippo’s Aviad Pinkovezky

by Pankaj Parashar

In this episode that was recorded on the day [Hippo acquired Sheltr](https://myhippo.com/blog/sheltr/), Aviad Pinkovezky – Chief Product Officer shares insights for the move and explains their growth story. He is also (sort of forced) to reveal what he does when he has time outside of work!

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 Hello, everyone, and welcome to a new episode of Purple   
 Ponderings with Pankaj. And today on our show, we have   
 Aviad Pinkovezky from Hippo, who’s got some very   
 interesting updates. Earlier this morning, they

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 announced the acquisition of Shelter. So I, being in  
 this space, I’m very, very pleasantly surprised, and  
 also very excited by that announcement. So we’ll talk  
 about that with Aviad. But just in case we have viewers

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 who have been, who have not heard of Hippo and, and  
 don’t have may or may not have heard of you, a little  
 bit of your background, a little bit of your background  
 with before Hippo and with Hippo.

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 Awesome. Yeah, thank you for sort of Pankaj for having  
 me. It’s great to be on Insurance Nerds again.  
 Definitely a pleasure. Yeah. So for the viewers that  
 are not very familiar with Hippo let me give like the

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 high level description. Hippo is reimagining and  
 reinventing home insurance. We believe that home  
insurance should not just be about reacting to a  
 disaster once it happens, but it should also leverage

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 technology and services in order to prevent as many  
 claims as possible. In addition to that, we also put a  
 lot of effort into streamlining the process of getting  
 home insurance by pre-filling the onboarding experience

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 with tons of data that we source from different places,  
 customers can essentially get a quote, within 60  
 seconds including on their mobile phone and complete  
 the purchase within just a few minutes. They can,

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 complete a purchase on their phone, on their laptop or  
 if they want to have a human interaction, they can also  
 call or chat with our licensed insurance agents team  
 which can provide with this service was the personal

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 service that is needed. Hippo is currently writing  
 business in 20 states. We are currently we have offices  
 in California, in Texas, which is in Dallas and Austin.  
 We’ve been around selling policies for two and a half

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 years starting in April 2017, in one state, now we are  
 in 20 states, we were fortunate enough to gain a lot of  
 momentum and customer traction, which led to  
 fundraising that resulted in an amount of $209 million

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 to date. So we are now working very hard to make sure  
 that we are able to expand nationally to become a  
 substantial, big player in the home insurance industry  
 in the US. A bit about me. So I’m the Chief Product

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 officer at Hippo. I joined Hippo very early on right  
 after the seed round as the first non-founder employee,  
 leading the product for the company. Been with the  
 company since that and it’s been a great, amazing ride,

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 turning this thing from a concept into a fast growing  
insurance startup that was able to gain so much  
 momentum and make a difference in so many people’s  
 life. I don’t come from the insurance industry. I’m a

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 newcomer for that. Although you could argue that  
 spending three and a half, almost four years at Hippo  
 is equivalent in dog yields to almost 30 years of  
 experience because of the pace. But seriously, though,

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 I know coming from the insurance industry. In the past,  
 before joining Hippo, I was doing Product Management at  
 LinkedIn. Prior to that, I did my MBA at Stanford at  
 the business school, Graduate School of Business at

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 Stanford. And prior to that, I served about 10 years in  
 the Israeli military and military intelligence. So  
 quite different background know the typical insurance  
 background.

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 Yeah, I would say so. But that’s a very interesting and  
 very, very deep background, that you have Aviad. My  
 first question to you is that Hippo was growing really  
 fast. If I look at your own story in terms of you

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 started three to four years ago, to where you become  
 one of the, what do you think, has been the drivers

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 leading to your success?

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 So from the very early days, we had the mission to  
 build a customer centric company. And I’m saying the  
 company because it’s much more than the online  
 experience. We wanted to build a holistic, customer

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 centric experience that would be present also within  
 our online experience, but also when people call us or  
 when they have any question, and of course, when they  
 have a claim. So that was the mindset that we had, you

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 know, set out with to build the company. And this has  
 been kind of our North Star that guided us in all the  
 decisions that we made, and people responded well to  
 that. The fact that we are able to provide quote and

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 bind a policy so quickly and so easily. The fact that  
 we worked really hard to modernize the underlying home  
insurance to make sure that it covers what people  
 expect to be covered in 2019, such as home office

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 equipment, service lines, Equipment Breakdown, for  
 HVAC, and other system in your home, we really work  
 hard to make sure that people get the coverage that  
 they expect from their insurance company. And then we

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 also made sure that the quality of the service that we  
 offer our customers or call us we whether it’s about  
 the billing question, or want to ever say to complete  
 the sale, or of course, when once they ever claimed, we

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 made sure that this would be like a top notch  
 experience. And we did it in how we build and trained  
 the call center and our and our staff. I would say  
 that, you know, we are extremely proud of many things

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 that we that we accomplished, but I think the metric  
 that I personally is most excited about the most proud  
 is either NPS Net Promoter Score. The standard in the  
 industry’s about 31, we were able to gain very quickly

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 in NPS, it is around 75. And again, this is just  
 because we were very, very focused on creating the best  
 customer experience from any perspective

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 Got it, that’s not super helpful to know. So let’s come  
 down to now, the announcement this morning of acquiring  
 Shelter. And the brief reading that I had it was a  
 pilot that you did you found some insights from that

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 pilot and you’ve felt compelled enough to buy them as  
 opposed to invest with them or be a you know, sort of a  
 commercial partner. So what led you to that decision  
 and what was driving that?

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 So let me start by taking a step back. From the very  
 early days of Hippo we knew that services will play a  
 big role in creating in pursuing the vision that we  
 decided to pursue, which is how to modernize the home

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insurance experience and how to make it a preventive,  
 proactive experience for the customer, not just  
 reactive. And in our mind, there are three layers to  
 that vision to making this vision a reality. The first

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 component is the insurance space, which is where we  
 started from. So I mentioned how we modernize the  
insurance policy. Now we made a process of buying  
insurance much more easy, much more easily done, and so

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 on. This is of course, and never ending effort. And  
 we’re always finding new ways to improve and and to  
 make this experience even better. Second piece was the  
 IoT. We knew that it could play a big role in the

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 customer experience and in reducing potential losses  
 for customers. And this is also a strategy that came to  
 life as well. The third component is exactly the  
 service layer, which is how we can provide preventive

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 services to customers in order for them to take better  
 care of their homes on an ongoing basis. Prevent losses  
 and catch issues that could become serious issues early  
 on. So in the past two years, we actually ran a series

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 of experiments, partnerships and different trials to  
 see what would resonate best with customers and what  
 will be the market reaction to that. Shelter has been  
 one of the partners that we worked with during this

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 time. And we were very positively impressed with the  
 amount of impact that they were able to gain and from  
 the quality and the consistency of the experience that  
 they were able to deliver to the customers. Since this

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 is something that is core to our strategy, we made a  
 decision to acquire them, because we believe that  
 having them as part of the Hippo team would allow us to  
 expand scale and scale this partnership. Now No, no

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 longer partners. You know, it’s part of the offering  
 but basically to scale the service and to offer it to  
 all of Hippo’s current and future customers. We believe  
 that this is the path that insurance should take in

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 providing additional value to customers not just  
 responding to claims after they happened, or dealing  
 with customers when they need to pay. Those are the  
 essentially the only two points in the policy in the

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policy lifecycle that existing insurance companies are  
 interacting with the customer. We think it’s not  
 enough. We think that customers expect more, and can  
 benefit much more just to indicate how valuable it

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 is…two interesting data points. One is the very  
 positive reaction and customer satisfaction score that  
 we got from customers during the pilot phase with  
 Shelter and the second one is that in over 50%, over

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 50% of the issues that we found, had the potential to  
 become a substantial claim unless they were handled  
 first, which indicates that there is a lot of value to  
 create the service that allows you to detect leaky

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 pipes early on, change the batteries in your smoke  
 detectors, make sure that your HVAC filter is is fresh  
 and clean and cleaning drains, and so on and so on.

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 Got it, got it.

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 You know, you mentioned the two step strategy, right  
 IoT step one, and now services. Step two, I want to go  
 back a little bit to the first one and ask you a little  
 bit about in the rollout for the IoT strategy, right

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 for the prevention in even the customer engagement  
 angle, what were the barriers? What was the challenges,  
 if any that you know, faced?

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 No, that’s a good question. You know, we started to  
 think about it back in the early days of people circa  
 2016. Back then, when you talk to people about IoT  
 devices, the initial reaction was devices like Nest,

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 which are, which is an amazing device, I have one at my  
 home as well, but it’s a bit more expensive. It  
 requires professional installation. It’s a bit more,  
 you know, it’s it’s more of a demanding customer

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 experience. So one challenge was that we had to partner  
 with more nimble players that offer DIY kind of  
 offering that are very easy to install and also, you  
 know, affordable, so they can be delivered and

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 distributed at scale to customers. So this is one thing  
 so right now we are partnering with Notion, which is  
 exactly that. It’s a it’s a kit made of hub and  
 multiple sensors to serve multiple purposes. Very easy

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 to install, takes a few minutes, all you need is a Wi  
 Fi and a smartphone which is very, you know, it’s not  
 it’s not a barrier. So that was one thing that we had  
 to address. Second thing was that, you know, we had to

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 obtain regulatory approval to embed this offering into  
 our insurance policy. And obviously, that takes time.  
 But we are very proud and happy with this achievement,  
 which allows us to provide our customers with

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 additional discount, once the device is activated, and  
 we are able to read that the device was activated, we  
 don’t get any data about what is going on in customers  
 homes, by the way, this is something that is very

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 important to clarify, we just get the signal that the  
 device is active so we can grant the discount. And the  
 third one, you know, we thought that there might be  
 considerations on privacy. So we made sure to address

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 it in a very upfront and transparent manner on our  
 website and throughout the different communication  
 points with our customers. And yeah, for some people,  
 you know, there is a consideration along those lines,

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 but you know, our activation rates For those kits is  
 north of 70%, which is something that we are very happy  
 with. So it is an indication that the end of the day,  
 the vast majority of customers feel comfortable with

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 getting this kind of service that allows them at the  
 end of the day to take better care of their home and  
 also benefit from an additional discount on their  
 homeowner policy.

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 Got it. No, that’s, that’s that’s a great answer.  
 Question for you is based on that strategy, right? In  
 adoption. You got your percentages, high…what’s the  
 next phase of that strategy? What what’s coming? What’s

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 more, coming more? I know you guys are very, you know,  
 protective about not sharing a lot but high level  
 insights.

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 Let’s say that I would ask you to stay tuned. We are  
 constantly working on making sure that the offering  
 that we provide to our customers is best of breed. And  
 provide the best service and the best coverage and

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 value for our customers. We are very, very happy with  
 what we achieved to date with the existing partnership  
 that we have. And we are always looking for additional  
 ways to provide more substance and more value to our

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 customers along those lines. And I think you know, this  
 industry, the IoT device industry, and the connected  
 home is still very early days for this industry. I  
 think the potential is huge. And we believe that there

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 is a huge amount of value to be created and to be  
 delivered to customers by doubling down on this down  
 this path. So So stay tuned. I think that you will find  
 some interesting updates from us throughout 2020, which

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 I’m sure going to be a very exciting news.

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 Very exciting. Yeah.

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 Fantastic. So, you know, one question just related to  
 that is that because you mentioned that there is still  
 amazing amount of opportunity on them in the market,  
 right? Just for the industry as a whole. And but

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 I have I have noticed that

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 the time it takes for adoption for the industry is  
 still in insurance is a lot. What do you think, from  
 your view? are the reasons for it? And what is the one,  
 you know, if you had wish to make, like, if I could

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 change the one thing which will help us all, what do  
 you think is that one barrier that you would like to be  
 removed?

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 It’s actually very difficult to summary to one barrier.  
 I think it’s a complicated situation. I think some of  
 it, at least up until recently was a regulatory  
 barrier. And you know, it’s a it’s a process, it takes

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 time. But that’s one thing. I would also say that, from  
 our experience, and from our observation, it takes time  
 for the insurance companies to run and to implement  
 those changes. It’s so much more complicated when you

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 have a huge existing book of business. I think for us  
 as a new comer, it was much easier to launch this  
 program to begin with, with a clean slate, almost like  
 a clean slate and we started to implement this program

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 very early on. And to scale the business with it. I  
 think it’s a bit of a different game. It’s more  
 complicated, technically, logistically, operationally,  
 to introduce it once you already have a huge existing

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 book of business. And I’m sure that also is something  
 that plays a role you know, in in the decision making  
 process within large companies

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 Got it. I would say that what you just described are  
 probably from from one lens competitive advantages  
 because you’re a startup you can take faster decisions,  
 you have a clean slate. So you can really, you know,

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 sort of rewrite or write your, you know,

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 there are advantages of being a new entrant into the  
 into a market Yeah, usually, people think it’s a  
 disadvantage being small, but you’d be surprised how  
 much value you can create by just being nimble,

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 focused, and not being constrained by too many, if any  
 legacy considerations.

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 Gotta got it. But I’ve got to tell you, that I, you  
 know, you talk about competitive disadvantages being  
 small. And one of the things in the industry that I’ve  
 sort of, you know, observed is a lot of the carriers,

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 incumbent carriers, right, large or mid size or  
 whatever, still have not moved as much as we would have  
 hoped, right. Sadly, the people on the other side of  
 the table with the technology, I’m sure if there was

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 some device manufacturers here the I wish there were  
 more and more demand for it. What do you think is the  
 reason for for that? I mean, what’s your perspective on  
 that whole?

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 You know, I don’t feel comfortable commenting on their  
 behalf and sure that they have their own reasons.  
 Usually to be completely honest, what we are very busy  
 on a day to day basis is not looking at the

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 competition, but focusing on how we can deliver more  
 value to our customers and look for the best  
 opportunities within the IoT space within the services  
 space like was demonstrated with the acquisition offer

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 that the acquisition, completion that was announced  
 today. And of course, with improving the underlying  
insurance policy and the online experience. At the end  
 of the day, we have a vision to make insurance, a

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 reactive service, sorry, turn insurance, formerly  
 active service into a proactive service that could help  
 customers to prevent claims and to mitigate issues that  
 arise while they you know, and to make the

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 homeownership much better experience and this is our  
 focus area that we are very busy with on a day to day  
 basis.

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 Fantastic. All right, well now get into a little bit of  
 a different space in terms of just wanted to ask you  
 have you had your you know, constantly probably  
 traveling very busy with your work. But if you have to,

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 if you have some time to do something, you know, what  
 are the things that you like to read or other people  
 that you follow a little bit about where you get up to  
 speed, not a lot of time left in the day, to be honest,

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 you’re right. It’s a very

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 demanding, you know, job being part of a fast paced  
 startup and I also have a family so that also takes,  
 you know, a lot of my time, one thing I get, I try to  
 make on a regular basis is to be involved in my kid’s

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 life and to take them to school in the morning. And to  
 put them to bed at night when I’m when I’m not  
 traveling, to do homework with them and to try and  
 spend as much time as possible over the weekend. So

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 this is one thing that is a big priority for me in my  
 life. Other things that I’m doing on a regular basis is  
 making sure that any given time there is a book that  
 I’m reading it Trying to find a mixture of leisure and

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 business related. Right now I’m reading a book about  
 product management. So it’s on the business side, the  
 one after it is actually supposed to be like a  
 fictional book. So I try to find this balance. But at

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 this point in time, this is pretty much what takes my  
 time. There is also of course, I almost forgot, but I  
 also try to cook as much as possible, mostly barbecuing  
 over the weekend, to something that I enjoy doing.

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 God That sounds that sounds good. By any chance you  
 happen to know the name of that book, if it’s any good,  
 like, leaders, readers to know.

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 Yeah, so the name of the book is inspire. I forgot the  
 name of the author, you can easily find it. And it’s a  
 book that explains I think, in a very accessible,  
 straightforward way the concept of product management

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 also for people that are not very familiar with the  
 concept of product management, in tech organization,  
 but also providing A different additional layer about  
 what are some best practices that are being used by

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 fast moving, agile and efficient teams? So it’s pretty  
comprehensive. Not a short one. But yeah, recommended.

101  
 00:21:17,250 –> 00:21:30,720  
 Got it. Got it and sort of the one last topic on this  
 subject was a question on the subject. If you were  
 listening to and you mentioned that you are, you know,  
 listening to our podcasts and, and webinars, etc. Is

102  
 00:21:30,720 –> 00:21:42,390  
 there any one person that you would like to hear from  
 and get on the show? If someone comes to your mind that  
 hey, bonkers, go interview this person. I’d like to  
 know what they think about this.

103  
 00:21:42,420 –> 00:21:57,750  
 I need to think about it. But I would love going back  
 to your question. I think it will be very interesting  
 to understand incumbents perspective on the shift on  
 the shift is that occurring with customer expectations?

104  
 00:21:58,320 –> 00:22:08,610  
 Obviously this is what we are dealing with. This is a  
 focus area for us. I think it will be great to  
 understand how it’s being perceived by incumbents, and  
 decision makers over them. We have our own theories and

105  
 00:22:08,610 –> 00:22:17,490  
 policies. You know, at the end of the day, we’re mostly  
 busy with executing against our objectives and goals.  
 But yeah, it should be very interesting to get this  
 perspective as well.

106  
 00:22:18,270 –> 00:22:22,470  
 Any carriers you want to name that I should try? All  
 right. Okay.

107  
 00:22:23,849 –> 00:22:40,919  
 Understood, understood. Well, that was very helpful.  
 area. I think we captured a lot of thoughts from you on  
 this topic. I’ll let you say some final words for our  
 listeners, and then we can wrap up.

108  
 00:22:41,099 –> 00:22:54,239  
 Now listen, thanks for having me. I have to say that  
 the last almost four years it’s been a crazy ride. It’s  
 been such a great pleasure. And I think the most  
 gratifying moments that I’ve had during my time at Hippo

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 00:22:54,539 –> 00:23:08,459  
 was launching the product that we build to market and  
 starting to get customer testimonial. feedback to  
 really understand what is the demand in the market for  
 what we are aiming to deliver. That is both

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 00:23:08,489 –> 00:23:21,599  
 heartwarming, and also very satisfying on a  
 professional level. And it’s been a, you know, it’s  
 been a great ride, and I just can’t wait to deliver all  
 the great stuff that we have in our pipeline next year

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 00:23:21,599 –> 00:23:22,229  
 and beyond.

112  
 00:23:23,410 –> 00:23:39,220  
 Excellent. Thank you. Thank you Aviad. Yeah, thank you  
 for your time today. And I think our listeners are  
 finally heard from the man who’s built a product that  
 Hippos you know, grown on. And so we’re looking forward

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 to many more new services and features that you’re  
 going to launch. With that. We’re going to wrap up.  
 Thank you very much once again, and all the best for  
 future success. Thank you.

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