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I was recently reading a couple of interviews with the founder of Dynamo Cover an insurance broker.
The man started out, a little showily, on the Apprentice, then was kicked out (natch), went briefly into bicycle insurance (as a broker), was made redundant, and then started up by himself. Then he appears to have leveraged his small period on TA to get a few newspaper articles, often peppered with stupidly expensive cars to help to self-promote. I see he's also involved in the InsuranceTech (claims automation) market. High priced tickets for events.
As someone with a very distant back history in insurance, but with various city insurance brokers in my social orbit (that I'd prefer not to tap up at this stage) does anyone have any information about how i) Alex Mills started out his own company ie. the initial focus on choosing markets, growth strategy etc ii) any books or forums where a wider discussion of the many varied options in this market lie, that might give a better idea of longer-term viability? My own field is dwindling a little and so considering various, at present, vague alternatives.
The previous posts previously here on similar topics tend to the skeptical side, but I thought it worth an enquiry.
The man started out, a little showily, on the Apprentice, then was kicked out (natch), went briefly into bicycle insurance (as a broker), was made redundant, and then started up by himself. Then he appears to have leveraged his small period on TA to get a few newspaper articles, often peppered with stupidly expensive cars to help to self-promote. I see he's also involved in the InsuranceTech (claims automation) market. High priced tickets for events.
As someone with a very distant back history in insurance, but with various city insurance brokers in my social orbit (that I'd prefer not to tap up at this stage) does anyone have any information about how i) Alex Mills started out his own company ie. the initial focus on choosing markets, growth strategy etc ii) any books or forums where a wider discussion of the many varied options in this market lie, that might give a better idea of longer-term viability? My own field is dwindling a little and so considering various, at present, vague alternatives.
The previous posts previously here on similar topics tend to the skeptical side, but I thought it worth an enquiry.
