In this episode we meet Scott Walchek, the founder of the US insurtech pioneer Trov, in the countryside of the San Francisco Bay area last may 2022 to share his incredible entrepreneur journey. Of course we all know Trov, the insurtech created 10 years ago as one of the first disruptor of the Insurance industry and recently sold to a third party. However few people are aware of the other incredible parts of Scott's life. And what a life!!!

I had the idea of the #PFF Founders' podcast many years ago when I first met Scott and he told me a part of his story. I am glad to be able today to share it on air.

After a first part focused on the tremendous Trov story, which is a good wrap up of the insurtech history of the past 10 years, we deep dive into Scott's memories to discover the incredible journey of an entrepreneur in the successive turmoil's of the dotcom bubble and then the 2008 Financial crisis. And believe me, Scott was not a witness there, he had a front row seat in a giant rollercoaster. If I did not checked by myself some public archives and facts, some could think that this story is a fiction. It is not. 

In that episode you will learn a lot on insurtech, entrepreneurship, stock markets, VCs, first web entrepreneurs of the 90s, founder's dreams and nightmares, good and bad luck, near bankruptcy, truth, deception, humanity, friendship, family, honour, faith, and globally speaking, on life. When we recorded this podcast, we thought we won't keep everything. In the end Scott accepted that we keep it all, so you can discover the uncut version of that conversation. It is a (very) long episode (3+ hours), but each and every minutes are worth the trip, even the silences!

Teaser : I wish one day to do a movie on Scott's life, this podcast could be the synopsis.

Insider info: we released that podcast episode, the last one of this miniseries of 6, the 14/12 which is by total coincidence Scott's birthday!

Make yourself comfortable, take a coffee and let's go for 198 minutes of close and personal conversation with Scott.

This podcast is produced thanks to the tremendous support of our sponsors Credit Mutuel Arkea  - a French retail bank very active in digital in general and Fintech in particular for more than 15 years now-, BPC – a global leader in payments,  transaction & digital banking -  & Research Industrial systems Engineering, a recognized IT service provider with more than 20 years experience in IT infrastructure & architecture. I can tell you that those companies do love entrepreneurs as much as I do.  More information about who they are and their activities can be found on our podcast page here.