Machine Learning & Automation in Underwriting with Lance Poole from Juniper Labs

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INTRO

On episode 17 of the InsureTechGeek Podcast, Machine Learning and Automation in Underwriting with Lance Poole from Juniper Labs.

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INTERVIEW

JAMES: All right. All right. All right. Another week, another show. So excited to be back with you talking about all things insurance tech on the Insurance Tech Geek Podcast. I am your host James Benham. I am joined by my illustrious cohost and author and a very interesting man, Rob Galbraith. Rob, how is it going, buddy?

ROB: Good James, how you doing, man?

JAMES: Doing great. I am in your home state of Michigan.

ROB: You are, yeah!

JAMES: I can feel "-"

ROB: Those Michiganders are making us Texans look very reasonable with all the protests and all that

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JAMES: 17?

LANCE: Always.

JAMES: It is like you just cannot stop winning. I do a talk called building a mad scientist about how to build innovation labs at companies, and I have a slide about the building process like you have to have a process to be successful. And I have a picture of Nick Sabin on that slide, because how does one coach have that much turnover, right? Like all the assistants get cherry-picked every three years, right? And all of his players leave every three to four years. And he just keeps winning national titles. He does not have rebuilding years, right, Lance? It is insane.

LANCE: It is. It is an amazing thing. And there is, throughout Alabama, there are a lot of businesspeople who study Nick Sabin's speeches, his way he coaches, all these things. It probably does not happen with a lot of other States where folks who are obsessed with how a football coach operates, but it is produced good results in Alabama.

JAMES: But you should be obsessed with the way he operates because it is that level of sustained performance, it seems impossible. I was tailgating in Tuscaloosa a few years ago, and I was hanging out with the strength and conditioning coach for the Crimson tide, and he was telling me that everybody keeps cots in their offices because they would just sleep there. Sabin never quits. They say it takes 24 hours off after a national title and then he starts recruiting again. 24 hours. That is all he gives himself after winning the big show, I was like, yeah, man. I take like a week after a good year. I am like, I want to take a week off. He takes a day, you know.

LANCE: Yeah, no, no one's going to be writing case studies on appropriate work - life balance by the looks of it.

JAMES: No. You should not look at work - life balance there. Terry Savage, I do not know if she will have something to say about that or not, but I will tell you what, it is fascinating. So, let us just dive right in, one of my favorite movies, Office Space. We are going to jump to conclusions now. Let us just dive right in on this whole thing. You are from Alabama, you are born and raised in Tuscaloosa. You went to the University of Alabama. What would you study there? Like what would you envision going into as a career and then how would you land in InsureTech?

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