Ethos CEO Peter Collis on 113% Growth and Reinventing Life Insurance

Austin Hankwtiz is joined by Peter Collis, co-founder and CEO of Ethos Technologies, to discuss how the company is transforming life insurance with instant online underwriting, why eight of nine life insurtech competitors have been shuttered, pivoted or acquired, and what's driving Ethos's 113% revenue growth.

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[00:00] Peter Collis, co-founder and CEO of Ethos, joins

[01:06] What Ethos does

[02:09] What's driving 113% revenue growth

[04:10] The Geico and Progressive parallel

[06:37] Inside the agent business

[09:11] Margin trade-offs: direct vs. third-party

[13:54] Competitive moat and why rivals failed

[17:17] The $100 million share repurchase

[20:38] What investors still don't understand

[26:42] Inside the ten-minute underwriting process

[31:52] Outro and upcoming episodes

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