If bigcos simply eliminated "quick introductions" at the beginning of every call they would be meaningfully more efficient.

This is great post for anybody thinking about insurtech. These trends were critical in our decision to start Ascend

a good reminder to keep going!

I spend 90% of my waking hours working on a startup but it's absurd to say a company "easing the eternal hassles of expense reporting" is the most innovative company in America. If it is, we are royally screwed as a country/species. fastcompany.com/90848912/most-…

Another good post from the folks at Equal Ventures on the insurtech space.

It's great to hear directly from our customers how much time we are saving them. Thank you Paradiso Insurance for telling us about the 35% time reduction your team is spending on back office work by using Ascend

Anybody know of any VC backed cos that raised so much money in the boom times that they are covering their burn in investment yield?

Did you catch the news? Last week, we announced our integration with Vertafore's AMS360! Together, we're bringing a fully automated AMS and payments solution to thousands of customers. coverager.com/ascend-integra…

Sometimes I look at the businesses who Ascend to pay for their insurance to get a sense for who they are. Today I saw "Florida's Largest Turtle Farm" paid for their insurance with Ascend 🐢🐢🐢🐢

We're excited to partner with PIA and their members to modernize how members collect #payments and premium financing to bring operational efficiencies to their agency bill book of business! coverager.com/ascend-is-endo…

Lunch of champions or new lows?

One way I know we hired well. Reversing the recruiter emails back into BD!

Excited to announce our partnership with Blitz Insurance! Read more here: prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Getting served ads for overpriced faux "working man" gear while reading commentary about the current working vs elite class divide in the US is too perfect.

Software is the value prop

We had an inbound lead from a decision maker at a top 10 enterprise account....that came in via bing. Welcome to insurance.

The playbook for vertical SaaS is getting obvious: 1. hardware as the loss leader 2. software for differentiation 3. fintech for revenue and profit

Opposing statements.

Congrats to Mark Goldberg and the Chemistry team! Mark is more than a great investor - more importantly a great person whose heart and mind are in the right place. I'm excited to see what Mark and team accomplish!

The 2025 Exceptional Startups List is now live! I'm very excited to share it with the world, and hope hundreds of thousands of job seekers find it valuable. This is the second year of the list, and we've made it even better than last year: -240 companies made the list this