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Cover (YC W16) Is Hiring(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by ksar 5y ago
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Cover (YC W16) Is Hiring(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by ksar 5y ago
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Cover Is Hiring an Engineering Manager for Our Toronto Office(cover.applytojob.com)
1 points by ksar 7y ago
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Senior Full Stack Developer Cover – Toronto(cover.applytojob.com)
1 points by ksar 7y ago
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Senior Product Manager (Web and Mobile) – Toronto Cover(cover.applytojob.com)
1 points by ksar 7y ago
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Cover is hiring a senior Ruby developer for our Toronto office(cover.applytojob.com)
1 points by ksar 7y ago
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by ksar 7y ago
This is true. We've got a human in the loop, who is primed with alot of context around your request. Customer service + advice on coverage is the primary thrust of the feature.
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by ksar 7y ago
CEO of Cover here. This is super surprising, as we sell our own policies + own a national insurance brokerage. No need to share/sell your information at all (nor would we, as a matter of principle), because we have access to most carri
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Cover Is Hiring for a Senior DevOps Engineer in Toronto(cover.applytojob.com)
1 points by ksar 7y ago
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by ksar 8y ago
Sounding in here - I bought the domain. Let's start with it was a lot of money, and to the credit of some of the folks here it remains to be seen whether or not the purchase was prescient or not from a ROI perspective. Whichever way it
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Cover is hiring for business operations to help fix insurance(cover.applytojob.com)
1 points by ksar 8y ago
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Why being single hurts your insurance rates(cover.com)
11 points by ksar 8y ago|1 comments
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Cover is hiring for BizOps to help build a tech-forward insurance company(angel.co)
1 points by ksar 8y ago
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Cover (YC W16) Is Hiring a Senior Rails Engineer in Toronto(angel.co)
1 points by ksar 9y ago
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Being assertive in the face of gender biases and building your dream job(forbes.com)
5 points by ksar 9y ago|0 comments
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Cover (YC W16) is hiring for Head of Growth(angel.co)
1 points by ksar 9y ago
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by ksar 9y ago
As a tech company, many of the things we do to improve the insurance experience can (and perhaps shouldn't, per my prior comments), have zero marginal cost. Say your house burns down - the carrier is going to request receipts, and pict
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by ksar 9y ago
Insurance companies, largely offer the same products and "differentiate" on customer service. My view is that value-added services, and pressure on price will win the day. Highlighted a few in the article, but perhaps, press a but
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by ksar 9y ago
On the commercial side we offer business property, professional liability, errors & omissions etc. The financial guarantees you're describing do exist: https://apps.shopify.com/signifyd We don't yet offer them
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by ksar 9y ago
Thanks for the catch -- strangely, wasn't updated.
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by ksar 9y ago
> For most of the insurance world, the hardest and most important thing to find is effective distribution and customer acquisition. This is absolutely true. If you look at how regional, family-owned P&C carriers got their start, you&
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Cover (YC W16) Is Hiring in SF and Toronto(cover.workable.com)
1 points by ksar 10y ago
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by ksar 10y ago
"An economy based increasingly on rent extraction by the few and debt buildup by the many is, in essence, the feudal model applied in a sophisticated financial system." The financial services sector adds value to society by provid
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by ksar 10y ago
There are prevailing market rates for high profile appearances. There is an associated economic rationale: celebrities who show up at the club, earn those places more money. Spending this kind of cash on public servants serves an economic p
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by ksar 11y ago
Multi-line discounts are a key selling point of going with one carrier, something a good independent broker should arrange for you. As an insurance customer, you have the right to switch agent representation at no cost to you (generally). W
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by ksar 11y ago
This is true. Although, we do like the name alot in the insurance context.
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by ksar 11y ago
1. We're of the opinion the best fintech companies win because they build great products, and find ways to transfer wealth back to the customer (Robinhood undercuts brokerages, Sofi the banks etc). To scale, we need to be a fairer deal
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by ksar 11y ago
We’re working on a property and casualty insurance product built from first principles on mobile for millennials. Our product takes in a picture of property you want to insure, and connects you with a network of brokerages across the US &am
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by ksar 11y ago
Partly because this wasn't Goldman specific behaviour. Those participating were systemically important financial institutions. In 2008, credit markets/money markets completely froze up and banks wouldn't lend to one another,
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by ksar 11y ago
As a quick refresher, these guys sold CDOs that they knew weren't priced correctly, obfuscated the mispricing, and then profited on short positions against the securities. Took 7 years to settle for being straight up crooks. Still the

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