Diego Segura

“Years of ultralow interest rates hurt insurers in two ways, first by reducing investment returns and second, by expanding insurance-underwriting capacity.” i don't quite understand the latter part, it has do with investors who are searching for yield buying lots of catastrophe bonds and insurance-linked securities,... See more

This is where so-called limits insurers come in, offering coverage to firms with annual revenues of $1 million to $20 million.

Euler Hermes, a limits underwriter, recently introduced a plan called Simplicity, aimed at helping businesses with $1 million to $5 million in sales. Another insurer, Coface, offers the International Policy, an industry... See more

The magazine’s patented celebrity-on-celebrity dialogues compounded the formula, like mixing colors on a palette. Instead of a journalist to interview Jack Nicholson, get Julian Schnabel. (For the results, see the April, 2003, issue.)

“Ideological suffocation has been the background ambient noise of the last 10 years,” Velez tells me. “Unfortunately I don't think fashion will ever be the Caligulan bacchanalia that it was in the ’80s and ’90s.” Velez is bringing courage, both creatively and ideologically to the scene.

It just makes me think, [the V.C.s] are bad at their job. It’s part of why Barbie is considered such an extreme thing, or a Taylor Swift concert. Men, and I mean largely white, cis men, think male culture is just culture. God forbid that they have to think about something that is not squarely targeted at them. That they can’t possibly try a... See more

Lemonade had set a world record by paying one New Yorker’s claim for his stolen Canada Goose parka in three seconds—the time it took Lemonade’s claims bot to run 18 antifraud algorithms and send bank instructions to deposit $729 in the man’s account.

It’s very rare to be cult, and it’s even tougher to stay cult. And I think how we measure it is very subjective. But I would say it’s stuff like the number of brands that approach us for collabs. That is a strong indicator of how hot, if I may say, the brand is.

Another is when we approach ambassadors to work with us. You know, we’re a relatively... See more

“I have to tell you, I was the only person there whose name I didn’t know,” Heilpern says.