Episode 6, Season 1: Mike Minett, Founder and CEO, Portabl

Hello and welcome to the Leadership in Insurance Podcast - Today I am lucky enough to be joined by Mike Minnett  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeminett/ 

Mike is founder and CEO of Portabl an Insurance solution for the gig economy workforce.  

https://www.portabl.co/ 

Mike is a serial entrepreneur and great fun. We met "stalking each other" on Linkedin  (Mikes words not mine). This is a far-reaching chat and in it we cover: 

• What is an ideas guy?
• Impact of Covid19 on the gig economy
• How the gig economy is much more than Uber and Deliveroo drivers
• Elevator pitches
• How the workforce dynamic has changed
• What you don't know about starting a business.....until you do
• The experience of growing and selling a start-up in the health and benefits space 
• The challenges of fitting a small, nimble startup into large corporate business
• How Mike could have been YouTube before YouTube and it still hurts that he isn't!
• Are we in a bubble behind ideas at the moment in Insurance?
• Who is right for a start-up? The people that take you the first 3 years are they the right people for the next 3 years?
• Building a team in a start-up
• The importance of start-up incubators for networking
• The importance of storytelling in recruitment
• Teams by design
• Direct value versus indirect value in networking
• Does Networking have a negative connotation?

And much more in between.  

This I a really interesting chat with an engaging founder with a great business concept.  

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