Category: Finance

54. Jeff Huebner, EVP at Mobilitas Insurance

54. Jeff Huebner, EVP at Mobilitas Insurance

By |

Jeff Huebner, Head of Mobilitas, discusses how he helps his commercial transportation networks manage their second-high expense: insurance. Ride sharing networks, last-mile delivery networks, and autonomous vehicle companies are his customers, and an enormous amount of customization and data ingestion and processing is involved. 

00:00 Introduction 

00:53  Jeff Hubner’s Background and Reconnection 

01:48  Understanding AAA, CSAA, and Mobilitas 

04:33  Mobils’ Mission and Services 

06:25  Jeff Hubner’s Career Journey 

08:35  Risk Management and Commercial Insurance 

11:16  Market Trends and Innovations 

24:21  Data Integration and Risk Management 

32:37  Advances in Vehicle Technologies 

34:47  Final Thoughts

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

49. Shahin Farshchi Ph.D, General Partner at Lux Capital

49. Shahin Farshchi Ph.D, General Partner at Lux Capital

By |

Lux Capital General Partner Shahin Farshchi, PhD, talked with me about his background, Lux’s history, and how the firm came to position itself as the leading investor in hard-tech. A focus on outstanding teams, market readiness, patience and taking the lead from entrepreneurs on the “next great sector” has led to investments such as Anduril, Aurora, Databricks, Hugging Face, Matterport, Nirvana, Planet Labs, Zededa and Zoox.

Note the “skip to” audio time stamps below.  You can read the related article here in 3 minutes.

Links to Lux Capital and Shahin.  Host: Ali Tabibian of GTK Partners.

On some podcast players you can click to jump to the timestamps below.

(1:44) Introduction to Lux

(6:14) Shahin’s background and initiative in managing your career

(20:49) Investment selection process

(34:30) Focusing on the long-term

(37:33) The next big things

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Archives

Categories