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Louw Hopley
Louw Hopley from Root discusses the insurtech his business has created to help insurance companies thrive in the current insurance environment!
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INTERVIEW
JBKnowledge podcast network. On episode 39 of the InsurTech Geek podcast, talking about building infrastructure for the insurance industry, one API at a time with Louw Hopley from Root.
JAMES: Happy Halloween! As we record this, it is Friday, October the 30th. It is time for a little Halloween action. Got the decorations up. The kids decorated themselves. Ready for some Candy Palooza. I do not know what it is going to be like, you know COVID Halloween. I have no idea what this is going to look like, Rob but we are going to give it a shot. Everybody has already got masks on anyway. We will just roll with it, right?
ROB: It would be very easy to dress up as a burglar or cowboy or whatever. That would be easy.
JAMES: Bring it on, right? Louw is in Cape Town, South Africa. Louw, does South Africa do Halloween? Is this a thing?
LOUW: Yeah, some of it. I also have no clue what is going to happen this year. People are claiming they are going to lock themselves in, but I am sure some of them will sneak out to get some sweets. It is a mix.
JAMES: We are going to be handing candy out, but we are going to do it distanced. We are going to have the bowls out in the front and people can come and just take their candy and that kind of stuff. We are going to have some fun. It will all be good. With us today, we have our esteemed guest. I am so excited to have him, Louw Hopley from Root, live from Cape Town, South Africa. Again, he is a co-founder and CEO of Root. Before we talk to Louw, I just want to remind everybody that you can subscribe to the InsurTech Geek podcast. If you are watching this on video, on LinkedIn, or Facebook Live, Twitter, Periscope Live, you can text GeekOut to 66866 and make sure you never miss an episode. We will email you the show notes and the links and the articles and everything that we talk about right there. Just make sure you text that. Now back to Louw Hopley from Root. Louw again, thank you for being on the show. I want to start by talking about you and then we will talk about your company. You got a degree in electrical engineering, from Stellenbosch University. What made you want to go into EE as a field of study and then what led you into InsureTech?