Gabe Glynn on Iowa, Manufacturing and Sending People Home from Work

Gabe Glynn: one of the heartbreaking statistics we came across was more than a thousand people a day die in work accidents on this planet so that means since I started this company more than half a million people have not gone home to their families at the end of the day and we believe that with data like this we’re going to be able to send more people home from work and that’s our driving factor.

Gabe is an excellent example of someone with a product that is awesome for insurance but really has very little to do with insurance itself.

David Wright: I like to think about Innovation and insurance as there actually is no such a thing as Innovation in insurance, there is only Innovation in risk management. People in the insurance industry I think get distracted little bit by what they do every day which is insurance and they forget that the social value of what we’re doing is is insulating people from risk and the only way to really affect insurance is to affect the risk

Gabe Glynn: yeah to your point when we started this journey it wasn’t about insurance for us it was about how do we how do we make sure that the environment these people are working in is it is a safe and productive as it can possibly be.

We cover a lot of ground in our conversation, including the culture of manufacturing, why unemployment is so low in Iowa and, of course, how to spot shoplifter.

Here is Gabe’s podcast homepage and MakuSafe’s homepage. Big thanks to Gabe for his time and use of his podcast equipment for our recording! Thanks for listening.

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