Ep 110 Rick McCathron President, Hippo: A path to profit, but on our own timeline

Tuesday Feb 08, 2022

Today’s guest is from one of the highest profile firms from the group of pioneering US insurtechs that emerged in the middle of the last decade.

Hippo Insurance, along with many of its trailblazing peers, is now a public company.

But despite the transparency this brings, it’s easy to look at Hippo and become confused by a whirl of alliances, structures and news announcements.

One analyst recently complained that it looked like Hippo was throwing different strategies against the wall and seeing which ones would stick.

In the light of this podcast that doesn’t seem fair.

Today’s guest would counter that Wall Street hasn’t really got its head around the variety in the newly-arrived insurtech sector and currently tends to put them all in the same bucket.

Hippo’s President Rick McCathron joined the business five years ago.

With almost 30 years’ P&C experience, Rick has insurance running through his veins and is incredibly focused on what Hippo’s mission is and how he is setting out to achieve that.

Insurance people can relate to him and he is excellent company.

Listen on and any lingering doubts about this firm’s clarity of purpose will melt away.

NOTES
Rick mentions the ‘CAC to LTV’ ratio. This stands for customer acquisition cost to lifetime value. ie a measure of how effective your marketing/acquisition spend is.
LINKS
We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo – enabling an enterprise view of exposure:
https://www.advantagego.com/

We also thank Claims Direct Access (CDA) for their support today:
https://www.claimsdirectaccess.com/