InsurTechTalk

About InsurTechTalk

Welcome to InsurTechTalk, the premier podcast where industry titans and trailblazers converge to unravel the fascinating world of InsurTech. Join us for insightful discussions, gripping interviews, and thought-provoking analyses with entrepreneurs, founders, investors, and executives at the forefront of the insurance and technology revolution.

Publisher

Gilad Shai

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Nov 2020

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

35 of 165 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Most Brokers Skip the Extra 3 Points of Commission. Here's Why | Duncan Crystal, Herald

   InsurTechTalk host Alex Johnson interviews Duncan Crystal, Co-Founder of Herald, about how AI helps brokers overcome placement challenges and the surprising reasons they skip commission.

2. 

   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why He Gave Away $100K of Caviar Instead of Conference Booth | Daniel Katz

   Host Yehuda Daniel Katz, Founder of RiskRemedy, shares insights on "book intelligence" and predicting coverage trends in this interview.

3. 

   12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The SaaSpocalypse, 9 Months Later: What Actually Happened | Michael Nadel

   Michael Nadel, Global Insurance Practice Lead at Simon-Kucher, explains what truly happened during the SaaSpocalypse and how InsurTech companies can align pricing with value.

Inside a recent episode

Most Brokers Skip the Extra 3 Points of Commission. Here's Why | Duncan Crystal, Herald

Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And in the middle, between those two things, they're just left to fend for themselves. it's basically a broker or a broker and their, and their team, a brokerage team and their inbox. And, uh, there's some tools that support them, but it's kind of a, to your point earlier, like a series of point solutions. And, uh, that is what we call the sort of messy middle of placement. So we're seeing that when brokerages think about places that they can drive growth, it is in, uh, creating efficiencies and more like effective deployment of their strategy in that messy middle. And that means placing clients with the right carrier, having strategic carrier relationships, which often means basically better coverage and better commission for the brokerage and then removing friction so that the throughput can just be faster. […]

Who has been a guest on InsurTechTalk

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Duncan Crystal
• Yehuda Daniel Katz
• Daniel
• Michael Nadel
• Rick Zullo

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

31,245

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

37

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

32