Reducing Safety Claims with Tech & Data with Tom West from MakUSafe

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INTERVIEW

JAMES: Yeah. First video episode of InsurTech Geek podcast. That is right. So, for those of you who have been listening just on audio, we now have a video channel. You will see it on Vimeo. Of course, you can just go to insuretechgeek.com and you will have links to all of those show notes and all kinds of other fun things. But this is the first video episode and with us, this beautiful face. Oh, my goodness. The most interesting man in insurance, Rob Galbraith, Rob, good to see you.

ROB: It is good to see you, James. Yeah. And I am glad that the listeners, now the viewers, kind of get to see what life is like behind the microphone all this time. You have not seen us, but we have been on video this whole time to talk with our guests. And so now you get to see what we see. So, I am really excited.

JAMES: Yeah. So, we are going to still do the audio podcast. We are going to have a video feed. It is going to be on Facebook on Twitter; and it will be on LinkedIn post from Vimeo. Until LinkedIn finally approves my ability to live stream. I cannot believe they still have not rolled this out into production for everybody. It is insane. They always wait like three years until after other social networks do something. And they are like, okay, fine. We will do live video. I mean, it is insane. I am so tired of it. So here you are in cassa Benham. Got my guitar collection. That is a Lego city behind me. I am a hardcore Lego addict and I do have a whole city. So just for those of you who are watching on video, if you are not, I can of course describe the room in detail. I am not going to do that to you though. With us from beautiful Iowa. Land of corn and rolling fields. I have been to Iowa a few times. Mr. Tom West from MākuSafe. Tom, it is good to see you as well.

TOM: You too. Thanks very much for having me on. Glad we are not having a derecho today.

JAMES: Nice. So, we will come back to you in just a second. I want to remind you out there before we get started with the interview, do not forget, you can subscribe to the InsurTech Geek podcast just by texting GeekOut to 66866. Make sure you never miss an episode. We will email you every week with just the show notes, the details, and the link to watch it or listen to it. Of course, it will be video and audio. Just text GeekOut to 66866. Now back to our guest, Tom West. MākuSafe.

Tom, how are you going to make me safe? No, we are not going to talk about that just yet. We are not going to talk about that just yet. We are going to talk about what MākuSafe does later. Now I want to talk about you. You have got an interesting background going back through hotels and media and teaching, and Des Moines Community College, you were a marketing professor for quite some time. Almost 20 years. You have had a diverse career. So, what is it that you envisioned yourself doing when you were a young buck going to University of Miami? What led you to… now, are we talking about Miami or Miami of Ohio? First, I got to ask that.

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