Tanner Hackett Built Billion Dollar Companies, His Next Project, AI Powered $50M Insurance Company Powered by AI. What's the Secret? - Ivan Patriki On the Margin

About this episode

Tanner Hackett discusses his journey as a serial entrepreneur and the innovative approach of his company Counterpart in transforming small business insurance using AI.

Backed by the same investors who funded SpaceX, I sat down with Tanner, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Counterpart, to get an honest look at what it actually takes to build something real fraom scratch.From cold-calling 40 people about a job offer in Malaysia and only trusting the two who said yes, to raising $50M to fix an industry everyone hates, to why working 14-hour days is his version of good mental health.This conversation goes places most founders won't touch. If you want to understand how normal people end up doing extraordinary things, watch this first. Counterpart is building the future of small business insurance using AI and data science. Instead of human underwriters trying to assess thousands of variables, their platform synthesizes data points to instantly quote, price, and place coverage for small businesses facing risks most of them don't even know exist, from wrongful termination to wage violations.They're backed by top-tier venture and private equity firms, and are on a mission to flip insurance from a reactive payout machine into a proactive risk prevention partner. 00:00:00 - Introduction00:01:02 - Best Day of His Life00:02:04 - What Is Counterpart?00:04:13…

People in this episode

Host: Ivan Patriki

Guest: Tanner Hackett

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• insurance
• AI
• venture capital
• small business
• risk prevention

Keywords

• Tanner Hackett
• Counterpart
• insurance
• AI
• entrepreneurship
• venture capital
• risk prevention
• SpaceX

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Counterpart, SpaceX

Places: Malaysia, US, Dubai

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