Interview: Guy Goldstein, Next Insurance
As Next Insurance launches today a chatbot allowing personal trainers to quote and buy insurance via Facebook Messenger, its founder and CEO Guy Goldstein tells Jonathan Swift how the American insurtech start-up plans on revolutionising the SME commercial market.
"Just last week we found an exclusion in an insurance policy that related to Y2K and that was 17 years ago. And yet, here was a document today that said you could not do something because of it. It is
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